2010 CENSUS: BE COUNTED!
On May 1st, census takers will begin going to door-to-door to roughly 48 million households that did not mail back their forms. They will also verify that housing units indicated as "unoccupied" to us by the postal service or others are indeed unoccupied and vacant.
By being counted you are standing up for what your community's needs are. That's why census takers are so important. A census taker is a person from your community who is hired by the Census Bureau to make sure that your neighborhood gets represented as accurately as possible. The census taker's primary responsibility is to collect census information from residences. Most of these residences have not sent back their 2010 Census form.
The Census Bureau provides the census taker with a binder containing all of the addresses that didn't send back a filled out census form.
- The census taker then visits all of those addresses and records the answers to the questions on the form.
- If no one answers at a particular residence, a census taker will visit a home up to three times and attempt to reach the household by phone three times. The census worker will leave a double-sided (English and Spanish) NOTICE of VISIT in the doorway that includes a phone number for the resident to schedule an appointment.
The census taker will ONLY ask the questions that appear on the census form.
If you have any questions or concerns about the 2010 Census, visit www.2010.census.gov, or contact the Lancaster Local Census Office at 717.666.2130.
To learn more about employment opportunities with the Census Bureau, call 1.866.861.2010.
