2020 US Census

Census Flash ~ US Population Topped 330,000,000 on July 24

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On July 23 the Census Bureau expects the population of the United States to top out at 330 million, and on  July 24, The US Population Clock read 330,003,650. A net gain of an additional person every 16 seconds.

Meantime, the 2020 Census is still a work in progress and if you haven’t filled out the form for your household, you will soon be receiving a reminder postcard. This will be the final mailing before census takers begin visiting nonresponding households across the nation in mid-August.

2020 US Census

What’s Happening in Bedford with the 2020 Census?

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If this were “an ordinary time,” there would be an army of Census “enumerators” all over the United States, following up on households that had not yet filled in the 2020 form.

One such Census Bureau hire is Bedford’s Rich Daugherty, who has been hired as a supervisor of those field workers known as enumerators.  If it were not for the stay at home and social distancing orders now in place in Massachusetts, Daugherty would be overseeing the work of enumerators in the city of Waltham.  That job is on hold now until the Census Bureau is given an “epidemiologically sound, data-driven basis to resume operations.”  Daugherty does know that 10 enumerators have been hired to do follow-up operations here in Bedford.