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It’s Census Day: Officials Urge North Escambia Area Residents To Be Counted
April 1, 2010
Governmental agencies across the North Escambia area are urging their residents to take 10 minutes on Thursday, April 1 — Census Day — to fill out and mail back their 2010 Census forms if they haven’t already done so. As the official reference date for the once-a-decade civic ceremony, Census Day will serve as the point-in-time benchmark for the nation’s population count for the next 10 years.
It’s important to us that we get an accurate count because that affects our federal funding for this town,” Century Mayor Freddie McCall said recently. “I would like to encourage everybody in Century to fill out these forms and get them back in so we can get a good, true census count.”
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only 46 percent of Century residents bothered to mail their census form back to the government in 2000. That compares to the national average of 67 percent in 2000.
Census form help is available at the Century Branch Library or the Jay City Hall. The assistance is available 1p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; and Friday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Century Branch Library. Assistance at the Jay City Hall is available from 8 a.m. until noon Tuesday through Friday.
The U.S. Census Bureau mailed or hand-delivered about 134 million 2010 Census questionnaires to households in March. To date, just over half of those households have mailed back their census forms, an important milestone.
Residents still have time to fill out and mail back their 10-question census form, saving the government about $57 for each household that does not have to be visited by an enumerator. If every household across the nation mailed back its completed form, taxpayers could reduce the cost of administering the census by about $1.5 billion, according to the Census Bureau.
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5 Responses to “It’s Census Day: Officials Urge North Escambia Area Residents To Be Counted”
i got like 4 of them…so i filled out all four and then i got two from the us census bureau washington d.c. i filled out both of them….( before i bought the house there were like 6 different folks living here)
Can’t fill out and mail back what I never got and I check my mail everyday
Can’t fill one out since we didn’t get a form in the mail. Oh well. someone else probably got ours.
A census came by ask question.So will i still get one in the mail?I have post office box.I asked the postmaster she didn’t know.
Please mail in your census form. The government desperately needs another 1.5 billion dollars to throw away!