It’s Census Day: Don’t let Brooklyn get cheated, again!
Throughout March, invitations landed in the mailboxes of residents across the country, reminding people to get counted for the 2020 Census. Now it’s Census Day and everybody should have received their notices.
Local community boards are on a mission to make sure the city is properly represented by the once-a-decade count, because the census determines how $675 billion in federal funding is distributed for things like local infrastructure, housing and transportation. Census data also determines how many congressional representatives an area receives.
The city had a response rate of less than 62 percent in 2010, compared to the national average of 76 percent. As of last week, census workers say the city’s response rate for 2020 is 75 percent higher than it was last time around, despite the pandemic, but it’s still lower than the national or statewide averages.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.