Source: NC DEMOGRAPHY, 9/22/20


Note: As of today, September 22, 2020, the 2020 Census self-response period will officially end on September 30. This end date is still under deliberation, however, and may shift back to October 31, depending upon the outcome of an ongoing legal challenge.

We have one more week to count all North Carolina households in the 2020 Census. Here’s how North Carolina is doing as of September 21st:

1. North Carolina’s response is low compared to other states, both nationally and within the southeast.
With 62.2% of North Carolina households responding to the census, NC ranked 37th out of 50 states and DC and had a response rate 3.8 percentage points below the national rate. There are five southeastern states with higher self-response rates than North Carolina: Virginia (70.5%), Kentucky (67.7%), Tennessee (65.3%), Florida (62.8%), and Alabama (62.6%).

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