Some people are counted more than once at different addresses, driving overcounts, while U.S. While the bureau's stated goal is to "count everyone once, only once, and in the right place," miscounts have come with every census. Other estimates the bureau released on Thursday revealed that the most recent census followed another long-running trend of undercounting young children under age 5.ĬOVID and Trump administration meddling hurt the count's accuracy The long-awaited findings came from a follow-up survey the bureau conducted to measure the accuracy of the latest head count of people living in the U.S., which is used to redistribute political representation and federal funding across the country for the next 10 years. The bureau said based on its estimates, it's unclear how well the 2020 tally counted Pacific Islanders.
Asian Americans were also overcounted (2.62%). People who identified as white and not Latino were overcounted at a net rate of 1.64%, almost double the rate in 2010. Latinos - with a net undercount rate of 4.99% - were left out of the 2020 census at more than three times the rate of a decade earlier.Īmong Native Americans living on reservations (5.64%) and Black people (3.30%), the net undercount rates were numerically higher but not statistically different from the 2010 rates. The 2020 census continued a longstanding trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino, according to estimates from a report the U.S.
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