2010 Census Awareness Campaign Update

The U.S. Census counts every resident in the United States. It is mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution and takes place every 10 years. The data collected by the decennial census determines the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives and is also used to distribute billions in federal funds to local communities.
2010 census data identifies the population for the City of Inkster at 25,369 residents. This is a 15.8% decrease from the 2000 census data which identified the population at 30,115 residents. Wayne County’s population decreased from 2,061.162 to 1,820,584 which is a decrease of 11.7%.

City officials have directed the Administration to “Challenge” the 2010 Census Count. We believe that the number of residents actually living in the city is greater than the number identified in the census count. Challenging the count is not an easy process, but it is important that we do all that we can to ensure that the count is reflective of our full population.

As mentioned previously, the information the census collects is used to appropriate seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and to determine how more than $400 billion dollars of federal funding each year is spent on infrastructure and services like:

Hospitals
Job training centers
Schools
Senior centers
Roads, bridges, tunnels and other-public works projects
Emergency services

It is clear that this Challenge is important to our community. The time frame to Challenge the count is June 1, 2011 – June 1, 2013. Ways to Challenge the count are as follows:

Boundary – correct inaccurate reporting or recording as a result of a boundary change.
Geo-coding – correct the placement of living quarters & associated population within the correct governmental unit boundaries.
Coverage – add or delete specific living quarters and people identified during the census process but erroneously included as duplicates or excluded due to processing errors.

The Administration will base the city’s challenge on Coverage. Additional information regarding the census breakdown is attached. This information was obtained from the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, SEMCOG, website at www.semgog.org. For more information regarding the Census Challenge, contact the Community Development Department at (313) 563-7709.

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26215 Trowbridge • Inkster, Michigan 48141
(313) 563-4232

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