As the deadline passed for local residents to mail in their 2010
Census forms April 16, 69 percent of San Benito County residents
had returned the form, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
As the deadline passed for local residents to mail in their 2010 Census forms April 16, 69 percent of San Benito County residents had returned the form, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
But that still leaves 31 percent of residents unaccounted for and staff in the Salinas Census Bureau office are preparing for the next phase in the local count.
Some residents, specifically those who receive mail at a Post Office box, may not have received a copy of the form in the mail. But Census staff said they will be coming out to count those residents in person between May 1 and July 15.
“A census enumerator will come to their house and attempt to get it on an enumerator questionnaire that is very similar to the mailed forms,” said Joe LeBlanc, a regional technician from the Los Angeles Regional Census office, who is working in Salinas.
LeBlanc said that though forms were mailed out to some Post Office boxes, the post office sent many of them back.
“It is not our intent not to reach them,” LeBlanc said of people who have a Post Office box. “It is a lot less expensive to send them by mail than to send people out, but we have to count everyone.”
For the full story see the Pinnacle on Friday.
