A Census 2020 car parade organized by Puente Latino Association traveled through North Long Beach on Census Day. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Huckeba. With a fast-approaching deadline of Sept. 30, Long Beach is averaging a 66.9% self-response rate to the 2020 U.S. Census, which is almost as high as the state’s overall response rate. As of Wednesday, the U.S. Census Bureau reported the national self-response rate is 65.9%, or about 97.4 million households. In 2010, the last time the census was circulated, the final response time was 66.5%. The bureau added that 68.4%, or about 10.3 million, of California households have responded to the 2020 Census online either by phone or mail. In 2010, California’s self-response rate was 68.2%. Long Beach still has less than two weeks to beat out its 2010 response rate, which was 68.3%. “Leaders said it was the decision to invest resources in reaching hard-to-count Californians that paid dividends, noting that the state’s success with people who are traditionally harder-to-count was a result of a comprehensive multilingual and multicultural campaign that has been underway since the beginning of the year,” according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In Long Beach, community nonprofits and organizations led many […]
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