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Door-To-Door Phase
The Census Bureau goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure everyone is included in the census. Open your door to census takers. See how its easy, safe and important.

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Welcome your Census Taker

On May 1st, census takers will begin going to door-to-door to roughly 48 million households that did not mail back their forms. They will also verify that housing units indicated as "unoccupied" to us by the postal service or others are indeed unoccupied and vacant.

Learn more about your Census Taker

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The Director's Blog

A LOOK FROM THE INSIDE
Director Robert M. Groves

My idea is to use this blog to let you know my thoughts about how the country is doing as we approach this "national ceremony" that occurs every 10 years - the decennial census.

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The Whole Story

Have questions about your privacy?
Census political affiliations?
Concerns regarding non-citizen participation?

Cut through the rumors and misconceptions with straight up facts about the 2010 Census.

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Mail Participation Rate

America stepped up to the challenge! The results are in and 72 percent of households mailed back their 2010 Census forms -- the same rate achieved in the 2000 Census. Check out your community's final Participation Rate as we begin the second half of the census: going door-to-door to obtain responses from the remaining households.

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Latest Census TV Ads

The television ads are part of the U.S. Census Bureau's national advertising campaign to boost mail participation rates in the once-a-decade population count.

See the latest ads

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The Census Road Tour

See the Road Tour and view our Portrait of America, a collection of videos and photos from road tour participants across the country.

Read the Road Tour Blog to learn more about the places we visited and the people we met along the way.

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Keep yourself connected with the latest Census news and events. Follow us on Twitter, see the latest videos, find out where the Road Tour is today and more.