Other Uses
For Census
Data
Apart from determining apportionment in the House, why is the 2020 census important?
Census data are used for
- Federal funding
- Hundreds of billions of dollars are allocated to communities based on census data, for everything from highways to hospitals, from housing to fire departments, from campus funding to social services
- Watch how census data impacts child nutrition
- Business decisions
- Business owners use census data to help decide where to locate, what goods and services to offer, where the labor market is favorable, and more