Census ends
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News from the 2020 Census
The U.S. Census Bureau ended its count of U.S. residents at the end of the day on Thursday, Oct. 15, after a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Bureau to end the decennial count early.
Responding to the unprecedented impacts of COVID-19 this spring, the U.S. Census Bureau set Oct. 31 as the deadline for the 2020 Census. The bureau later reversed course and cut short the deadline, spurring two months of court battles to extend the count.
Paper responses postmarked by Oct. 15 and received by the Census by Oct. 22 will be included in the count, according to the bureau.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s response page, more than 300,000 households in Montana self-responded to the 2020 Census for a self-response rate of 60.4 percent.
