The address on your census form or advance letter may not list the city name you identify with or are used to seeing on your mail.  This is a result of an efficiency cost-saving measure that streamlines how the forms are sorted and delivered to you by the U.S. Postal Service.  However, it will NOT affect which city, town or block your household’s responses will be assigned to. 

Contained in the barcodes on your form is information about the correct geographic location to which your housing unit belongs.  This geographic information was verified last year by census workers who physically located each housing unit on the ground and assigned the housing units a “geocode” using special census maps and GPS coordinates.

In addition, the Census Bureau provided local governments an opportunity to review and provide feedback on the address list we developed for their municipality through the Local Update of Census Addresses or LUCA Program.  Most municipal officials verified that the Census Bureau accurately coded each house to the proper municipality, regardless of the address used by the U.S. Postal Service for delivering the mail.

Please fill out the form for your entire household to make sure that your city, town or block is accurately counted