Take part in Census 2010. It’s important
Issues April 7th. 2010, 12:40pmThis is something along the lines of a public service announcement.
Click on this graphic and you’ll find a nifty little thing to play around with, courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Delaware County is not doing so well with response rates, particularly when compared with either the national average or with the rest of upstate New York, as you can see if you click through and have a look at the aforementioned maps.
If you visit the web site and drill down to the township level, you’ll see that, internally, Delaware County is all over the map (no pun intended). Response rates range from a high of 62% in Sidney to a low of 31% in Andes.
You know why this matters, right? Census data helps officials figure out how many Congressional seats we get, because that is dependent on population in the House of Representatives. It also dictates how much federal funding we get for things like Medicaid, education and first responders.
We’re losing enough population already, the last thing we need is to be undercounted because people aren’t submitting their Census forms!
So, we’d like to encourage all of you to get those forms done and returned to the Census Bureau. It really does take just ten minutes (that’s how long it took me in a household with seven people, so you should be just fine) and it’s for a very worthy cause.
