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With COVID-19 complicating efforts to conduct the 2020 Census nationwide, a North Carolina county appears slow to complete it.
While Alamance County, in the north-central part of the state, has had a better turn-in rate than the statewide numbers, its completion percentage lags behind most neighboring counties, according to a Times-News March 31 report.
National Census Day was on April 1. As of March 30, Alamance County’s response rate was listed at close to 34%. North Carolina as a whole had a 33% response rate. Mebane, Burlington, and Graham counties bested Alamance County.
“People are counted where they are April 1,” Amy Galey, Alamance County Board of Commissioners chair who put together the county’s Census Executive Committee, told the Times-News, “but people aren’t where they thought they were going to be. So things have really changed.”
A decade ago, Alamance County registered a 67.1 percent self-response rate. Its 2010 population was 151,131.
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