The census is every 10 years, and it’s largely done by mail. Every household gets a form in the mail that you’re required to fill out and return. The only time I’ve had a census worker show up at my house was when I forgot to fill out the form and the deadline was approaching. If you return the form before the deadline, the census workers won’t have you on their list because you’ve already been counted.
update, now that I think of it, in 2010 I was married and my husband at the time would have been the head of household and any such letter from the census would have been addressed to him.
In 2020 my circumstances were extremely vagrant so that’s probably how I slipped through the cracks that year.
Vagrancy matters! The only reason I was counted in 2020 was because I broke my neck and spent about the first half of the year staying at a friend’s house. The address I had wasn’t legit so nothing like that would have been mailed to me.
Possibly. I haven’t the foggiest idea of what determines where the forms get mailed. I’ve always assumed the list was compiled from whatever records the government has on people: tax filings, driver’s licenses, etc. I only know I got both of mine in the mail.
The census is every 10 years, and it’s largely done by mail. Every household gets a form in the mail that you’re required to fill out and return. The only time I’ve had a census worker show up at my house was when I forgot to fill out the form and the deadline was approaching. If you return the form before the deadline, the census workers won’t have you on their list because you’ve already been counted.
Okay but I don’t even recall receiving a form in the mail in the year 2010 or the year 2020.
update, now that I think of it, in 2010 I was married and my husband at the time would have been the head of household and any such letter from the census would have been addressed to him.
In 2020 my circumstances were extremely vagrant so that’s probably how I slipped through the cracks that year.
Vagrancy matters! The only reason I was counted in 2020 was because I broke my neck and spent about the first half of the year staying at a friend’s house. The address I had wasn’t legit so nothing like that would have been mailed to me.
Possibly. I haven’t the foggiest idea of what determines where the forms get mailed. I’ve always assumed the list was compiled from whatever records the government has on people: tax filings, driver’s licenses, etc. I only know I got both of mine in the mail.