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The Voice of Seguin Today

Volume 55 • Number 150 830 • 379 • 2234

Citizens urged to return census surveys

Some neighborhoods lag behind county, state averages respond and be counted. It’s really quick and it’s easy to do, especially right now when we are home social distancing,” said Sourdellia.

The Census Bureau has made it even easier for people to get signed up this year. Sourdellia says you can do it online, over the phone or by mail. She says it all takes just a few minutes. “This is the first year that the census (bureau) has done an online way to be counted. If you have a computer, and most people do, you can simply go online at mycensus2020.gov. You can fill it out there. It’s only ten questions. It takes, literally, five minutes or less to do it. I actually did The Census Bureau requires that census takers wear a mask while conducting their mine online and it took just a few minutes to do it. If you don’t have a work. They will follow CDC and local public health guidelines when they visit. computer or internet service, you can By Darren Dunn is entering the late stages, and it’s also respond by phone. That number is 844-330-2020. Or they can also (Seguin) -- The city of Seguin is again important that everyone gets counted. send their form back in the mail,” encouraging you to get your census “Our population is counted every 10 said Soudellia. forms turned in for this year’s count. years by the (US) Census Bureau, and Seguin Public Information Officer right now the 2020 census is happening. Most of Seguin has already Jennifer Sourdellia says the count So we need everyone in Seguin to responded to the questionnaire, but

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Sourdellia says it’s important that every single household gets counted. She says the local response numbers are pretty good, but they need to get much better by the end of this count. “Right now the national selfresponse rate is sitting at about 62.8 percent. Texas is sitting at about 57.8 percent. And Guadalupe County’s self-response rate currently is 66.2 (percent). Now in Seguin, our selfresponse rate is sitting at about 61 percent. We can do better than that. I know we can do way better than that. So let’s get those numbers up. We especially need residents in neighborhoods west of North Guadalupe Street to respond. That’s kind of an area where we are having some trouble getting people to respond. I do want to mention that census takers will follow up with non-responding households. They are going to start knocking on doors if you haven’t responded yet,” said Sourdellia. See CENSUS, page 3