The effort by the U.S. Census Bureau to count everyone living in Oklahoma has been extended to the end of the month.
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Census Bureau has to continue counting until October 31. This means that Oklahomans still have time to respond -- and that census workers will continue to knock on doors. The state still ranks low on the rate people respond to the survey on their own, at about 60%. That’s slightly below the rate in 2010, which was 62% and is lower than the national average.
Right now, Oklahoma is 99.6% enumerated. That means that census workers have either counted in person or the workers have used administrative records or asked people like neighbors and landlords to count the household.
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