In NJ, 2020 Census Could Already Be in Trouble

In NJ, 2020 Census Could Already Be in Trouble

NJTV News (PBS), 1.3.18

A map shows swaths of undercounted areas in New Jersey concentrated over urban areas where less than a 73 percent responded to census forms sent by U.S. mail. In Rice's district, only 67 percent responded. New Jersey ranked eighth among states with hard-to-count populations, according to Mapping Service Director at the CUNY Graduate Center Steven Romalewski. "About 20 percent of the state's population lives in hard-to-count communities. That's not evenly distributed around the state. Most of those hard to count communities are in some of the bigger cities in New Jersey — Newark, Trenton, Paterson, Camden," said Romalewski.