The Census Bureau has released final tallies for the mail participation rates in the 2010 Census. Kentucky had a 75% rate, which bested the 2000 particpation rate of 70%. In all, 28 states had better participation rates than in 2000.
Among Kentucky counties, the highest participation rates were in Leslie County (86%) and Robertson County (85%). Bell county had the lowest rate at 43% and Wolfe county was next lowest at 44%. All of the state, county and city rates can be viewed here on the Bureau's Participation Rate Map.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Census Takers Start Door-to-Door Canvasing on May 1st
On May 1st, census takers will begin going door-to-door to roughly 1/3 of households that did not mail back their forms. They also will verify that housing units indicated as "unoccupied" to us by the postal service or others are indeed unoccupied and vacant. Click here for more information about this phase of the Census.
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