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| Response rates to 2020 Census. Daily Yonder map; click the image to enlarge it or click here for the interactive version. |
"The U.S. Census Bureau is ending all counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month sooner than previously announced, the bureau's director confirmed Monday in a statement," Hansi Lo Wang reports for NPR. "That includes critical door-knocking efforts and collecting responses online, over the phone and by mail."
That means rural areas are less likely to be counted, since nonmetropolitan counties have a lower response rate than metro counties. "Nationally, 62.8% of households have responded to the Census," Tim Marema reports for The Daily Yonder. "Only a quarter of nonmetropolitan counties have met or exceeded that response rate, while more than half of metropolitan counties have."
Of the nation's 1,971 nonmetropolitan counties, 38% have a response rate under 50%, as of July 29, Marema reports.
An undercount of the rural population would have wide-ranging implications beyond congressional apportionment and electoral college votes. "The Census website includes examples of how the population count can affect community programs in education, healthcare, hospital funding, and more," Marema reports.
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