San Mateo County leads California in census response rate
Excerpt from The Daily Journal
San Mateo County is leading the state in census returns with 72.8% of households having responded as of Tuesday, but county officials say more work is needed to ensure that the hardest to count populations are included.
Despite the many obstacles to a full count — including the worsening novel coronavirus pandemic, language barriers and widespread distrust of the federal government among critical population groups — San Mateo County has nearly reached its 2010-level of participation, which came in at 73.2% in the last decennial effort to count every person in the country.