State and County-Level Response Rates, 6/23 – 7/5

  North Carolina: Census 2020 Real-Time Response Rates – Week ending July 6 (.pdf)

  View All County-Level Response Rates – Week ending July 6

Key takeaways for biweekly period ending 7/5

1. The growth in self-response rate now very small. As of July 5^th, 58.1% of households in NC have responded to the Census, up less than half a percentage point over the past two weeks. The nation had similar growth of 0.3 percentage points, from 61.6% to 61.9%.
2. North Carolina now ranks 34 out of 50 states and DC. It maintains its ranking from the previous two-week period. Its highest ranking to-date was 33^rd.
3. Over half of households have responded in 68 NC counties. This leaves 32 remaining counties that have yet to meet the 50% self-response benchmark. The majority of these are located in rural western and northeastern North Carolina.
4. Census tracts with the most and fewest young children continue to lag the state. An average of 56% of households responded in tracts with the fewest young children – 2.1 percentage points below the state. Similarly, an average of 56.5% of households responded in tracts with the highest amount of young children – 1.6 percentage points below the state. Tracts between these two categories, on the other hand, had average response rates above the NC average.
5. Tracts with fewest foreign-born residents continue to lag behind the state.  As of July 5^th, households in tracts with the fewest foreign-born residents had an average response rate of 54.3% – 3.8 percentage points below the state.
6. Tracts with >50% minority residents lag behind NC. An average of 51.4% of households responded in tracts where the majority of residents are American Indian, Asian, Black or Hispanic/Latinx – 6.7 percentage points below the state.
7. Over two-thirds of households have responded in high internet access areas compared to half in low internet access areas. An average of 50.1% of households have responded in low internet access areas – 16.4 percentage points below the average for high-access areas (66.5%).
8. Five primarily urban counties outrank the state. These are Craven (61%), Forsyth (61%), Guilford (64%), Mecklenburg (61%), and Wake (67%). Each county’s response rate grew less than one percentage point from the last report.

Last updated: 7.8.20