by NC Census
April 15, 2010
Today marks the two-day countdown for North Carolina residents to mail back their 2010 Census form. Households that return their forms after Friday, April 16, will be visited by Census workers during the door to door collection of Census information beginning on May 1.
Each 1 percent increase of the national mail participation rate saves taxpayers $85 million by not sending census workers door to door from nonresponsive households. It costs 42 cents for people to mail back their form, compared with an average of $57 for census takers to visit each home and collect census data.
In North Carolina, about 30% of households have not returned their 2010 Census Questionnaire yet.
