Background
The United States Census Bureau is making final preparations for the release of the 2010 Census. The results will enable local governments to identify demographic characteristics, promote economic development, apply for grant applications, and determine levels and locations for infrastructure and public services. Census Population data is the basis for transportation planning, economic development, social and emergency services planning, municipal budgeting, land use planning, and other uses.
COMPASS has participated in several census preparation programs as a service to member agencies. COMPASS census efforts are important to the region:
· Idaho receives approximately $1,200 annually, or $12,000 over a decade, for each person counted in the census.
· COMPASS’ 2010 Census preparation efforts will count approximately 57,000 more people than if no efforts were done. This amounts to approximately $69 million more per year or $689 million over the next decade.
The following programs have been completed:
· BAS—The Boundary and Annexation Survey provides information to the Census about legally defined geographic areas that are used to tabulate data for various censuses and surveys, such as the American Community Survey (ACS).
· CCC—Complete Count Committees are teams of community leaders who develop and implement a locally-based outreach to promote the 2010 Census.
· LUCA—the Local Update of Census Addresses enabled local governments to update the Census’ Master Address File (MAF) for the 2010 Census canvassing.
· NCP—The New Construction Program supplemented the LUCA program by updating the MAF with new housing built during 2010.
· PSAP—The Participant Statistical Areas Program delineated census boundaries to define relevant census statistics by useful areas for the 2010 census and the ACS.
More information bout the 2010 census is here.
2010 Census Participation Rates can be found here.
2010 Census data, graphs, charts, and maps will be available here shortly after being released.
To view prior year Census data, click here.
