Census Tracking in Member Communities
The 2020 Census counts every person living in the United States and five U.S. territories. Census results help determine how billions of dollars in federal funding flow into states and communities each year.
SOPEC strives to support accurate and effective Census counting efforts. We will be tracking our member communities’ response rate on this webpage and it will be updated weekly. We hope our tracking encourages residents in our communities and region to respond online, by phone, or by mail. Did you know…
“By law, the Census Bureau cannot release any identifiable information about you, your home, or your business, even to law enforcement agencies. That's protected under Title 13 of the U.S. Code.”
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In The News
Ohio’s Appalachian region aims to fight census undercount - The Columbus Dispatch
“There’s a new effort to boost the census return rate in 22 Appalachian Ohio counties so they don’t lose out on federal money and representation. Leaders in Appalachian Ohio worry that there will be an undercount of the region’s population once again, leaving federal dollars and representation on the table.
So they’ll be pushing ads to improve response rates to the U.S. census this year. Three organizations have raised $44,000 to get the word out in 22 southeast Ohio counties, an effort dubbed Appalachian Ohio Counts…
Patterson is also vice president of the Mayors’ Partnership for Progress, one of the three groups involved in the regional initiative; the two others are Ohio University’s Center for Campus Community Engagement and the Southeast Ohio Public Energy Council.”
U.S. Census Bureau To Focus on Southeast Ohio Residents - WHIZ News
“The important thing about filling out the census is it helps you get money for the next ten years. If you care about children and I really hope we all care about children, we have to understand that a lot of programs such as Head Start, you school funded breakfast and lunch, your Title 1 funds, all are based on filling out the census so we have an adequate and accurate reporting of all those,” Mason said.
Mason says that the response rate in Zanesville has been fair with some parts of the community as high as 70 percent of people who have reported. Not filling out the census has more of an adverse effect than people may think. Every Ohioan who fails to respond costs the region and state an excess of $1,000 per year in federal funding.”
Updated 10/6/2020 - Ohio Response Rate: 70.5% (Enumerated after Non-Response Follow-Up: 99.9%)
City of Logan (Hocking County) - 71.2%
Village of Albany - 68.5%
Athens County (unincorporated) - 62.1%
Village of Glenford - 62.3%
Village of Amesville - 61.5%
Village of Somerset - 60.6%
Village of Lowell - 59.7%
Village of Buchtel - 59.2%
City of Athens (Athens County) - 58.9%
Village of Chauncey - 53.4%
Village of Jacksonville - 51.8%
Village of Chesterhill - 50.3%
Village of Racine - 50.3%
Village of Shawnee - 49.8%
Village of New Straitsville - 47.8%
Village of Trimble - 42.4%
Village of Rio Grande - 31.3%
(SOPEC - Athens County Villages) Albany, Amesville, Buchtel, Chauncey, Jacksonville, Trimble | (SOPEC- Washington County Village) Lowell
(SOPEC - Perry County Villages) Glenford, New Straitsville, Somerset, Shawnee | (SOPEC - Meigs County Village) Racine
(SOPEC - Gallia County Village) Rio Grande | (SOPEC - Morgan County Village) Chesterhill