Census 2020 outreach begins in Orange Beach

Census 2020 outreach begins in Orange Beach

Mayor Tony Kennon and the Orange Beach City Council recently proclaimed their partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau to ensure a full and accurate count in 2020.
“Residents are strongly encouraged to participate in order to help the city receive state and federal benefits that are commensurate with the true population of Orange Beach,’’ the city stated in a proclamation.
Jean E. Hogue, U.S. Census representative for Baldwin County, noted that the $400 billion per year in federal and state funding quoted in the proclamation has actually gone up to over $674 billion and said Alabama is in jeopardy of losing not just one but two U.S. House seats.
“That will be the least amount of representation that we’ve had since 1970,” Hogue said. “So it’s crucial that we have people in the community take the Census.”
Orange Beach, as well as other municipalities, has formed its own committee to help spread the word about Census participation.
Some Census workers are currently canvasing neighborhoods to verify addresses but the actually count will not begin until early in 2020 with a deadline of April 1, 2020 to submit census forms.
Find more information at census.alabama.gov and 2020census.gov.