Take 10 Map shows Census 2010 Participation Rates

The Census Bureau's "Take 10" campaign encourages residents to Take 10 minutes to fill out the 2010 Census form and mail it back. A big part of the campaign is the ability to see daily updates of 2010 Census participation rates at the state, county, city, and even neighborhood level (census tracts).

If poor participation is detected before the Census 2010 has finished, then maybe some outreach could be done to improve the response rate.

The map is now live on the Census 2010 website, http://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/.

Here's a look at most of Texas as of March 23rd. As you can see, most Texas counties are the darkest blue indicating less than 20% of the mailed census forms have been returned. The lighter shade shows the few that counties that have over 20% but less than 40% responses so far.

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CAPCOG will monitor this site periodically to see how the response rates are looking for entities in our region. However, we do encourage you to check out the site at your own convenience.

Here's how the Census 2000 and 2010 participation rate looks for CAPCOG counties, as of March 23rd.

And here are the Top 10 cities in the region.

For a spreadsheet showing the Census 2010 participation rate as of March 23rd for all CAPCOG cities, click here.