Census Takers coming Door-to-Door: What you need to know

Census Takers coming Door-to-Door: What you need to know

Good evening and thank you for joining us.

With covid-19 lingering over our nation....filling out census forms have taken a back seat for many.

At 5 o'clock...we gave you response numbers across the wabash valley.

They are lower than prior census numbers.

Now census takers will begin coming door to door to get those numbers up.

News 10's dominic miranda spoke with a local census expert.

He has more on what you can expect in the coming weeks.

A lot has taken a back seat to covid-19 since march.

The ever-important census count is no exception the u.s. census bureau announced it will begin following up with households door-to-door that have not yet responded to the census.

Here's what you can expect in the coming weeks and where you can find help if you need it.

We are in the 3rd week of what's called the mobile questionnaire assistance operation.

Census reps are stationed here locally and can assist you with online response of the census.

This will continue through mid-september.

Census takers will be coming door to door beginning on august 11th here in the valley.

They will be wearing face masks...practice social distancing...and remain outside your home.

They can be easily identified with their government id badge with a u.s. departent of commerce watermark.

They will go through the census form manually with you...to boost response numbers here in the wabash valley.

Ryan keller is the executive director of the west central indiana economic development district.

He gets constant updates of census response numbers from the u.s. census bureau.

Right now...every west central indiana county is below indiana's average of response rate.

He says it's vitally important for you to fill out your census form.

This is so the wabash valley can get as much state and federal funding as possible for the next 10 years..... and not see it go elsewhere.

"all rural areas could use as much local, state, and federal dollars as we can possibly get.

But the real big thing with the census is your federal dollars that are going to be coming into our area, into our state and we want to capitalize on that as much as we possibly can."

The deadline for door-to-door visits from census takers is october 30th.... and as i mentioned...they will be starting here in our area in a couple of weeks.

In the news 10 newsroom i'm dominic miranda.

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