Ever wonder just who did, or did not, participate in the 2010 census? Here's a link that will show you, by state, county, or city, the percentage of the homes that returned the census form. (Click on the blog entry headline, or cut and paste the following into your browser.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/census-participation.htm
The link will also show participation in the last census, a decade ago.
I was surprised at how low the numbers are. Redlands is about average for California at 66 percent. Using the lists/search tools, I found, not unexpectedly, that low-income areas do poorly, as do cities that have a high percentage of vacation homes, such as Mammoth Mountain.
For some really scary numbers, go to the southern states of Mississippi and Alabama, where you'll find towns where less than a quarter of the residents returned census forms. Smaller towns seem to do worse than larger communities, for some reason. Surprisingly, most Kentucky towns have a higher participation rate than most in California.
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