If your residents are concerned about missing the mailback deadline, here's a suggestion from Dr. Groves.

 From the U.S. Census Bureau Director's Blog:

 I’ve talked to some folks who didn’t mail in their completed census form by April 16.

“What should I do?” they say (usually after providing logical reasons why they couldn’t get it in the mail by Friday).

As I noted in an earlier entry, getting the form in the mail by April 16 provides pretty strong assurance that we’ll be able to process it and cross your household off the list to receive follow-up calls.

With each passing day, our ability to give you that assurance is reduced, because of the time required for us to receive the form from the postal service, check it in, and get it crossed off our list.

What to do? Complete the form and mail it back. We’ll do the best we can to avoid having someone visit your home. If we don’t get it in time, please understand that someone may visit and ask you the same questions as on the form. We train them to do that. You’ll think of it as completely redundant, but providing the answers will guarantee that we have a response from you and get you counted properly. Please be cooperative with the request.

Updated Census 2010 Participation Rates as of 4/19/2010
                                     2010              2000   Yet to be counted
Bertram                          72%               64%   28%
Burnet                            72%               70%   28%
Cottonwood Shores          67%               62%  33%   
Granite Shoals                  67%               49%  33%
Highland Haven                73%               76%  27%
Meadowlakes                   86%               88%  14%
Marble Falls                      68%               60%  32%

All U.S. residents must be counted - people of all races and ethnic groups, both citizens and non-citizens.

Mandated in the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, for the purpose of: Apportionment, Redistricting, Distribution of Federal Funds

Census Day is April 1, 2010. Questionnaire responses should represent the household as it exits on this day.

The U.S. Constitution requires a national census once every 10 years. The census will show state population counts and determine representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1st Postcard is mailed first week of March 2010 to inform residents that Census questionnaires are coming in the mail.
Census questionnaire is mailed 3rd week of March 2010

2nd Postcard is mailed to resident reminding them to send back Census 2010 questionnaire.

Census questionnaire will be delivered or mailed to households via U.S. mail in March 2010.
Census workers also will visit households that do not return questionnaires.

With only 10 questions, the 2010 Census questionnaire is one of the shortest questionnaires in history and takes just 10 minutes to complete.

By law, the Census Bureau cannot share an individual's census questionnaire responses with anyone, including other federal agencies and law enforcement entities.

The federal government can allocate more than $300 billion to states and communities based, in part, on census data.

Census data guide local decision-makers on where to build new roads, hospitals, child-care and senior citizen centers, schools, and more.

Businesses use census data to locate supermarkets, new housing, department stores, restaurants and other facilities.

Census data determine how many seats each state will have in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"BE COUNTED IN BURNET COUNTY" YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
"SER CONTADO EN EL CONDADO DE BURNET" USTED PUEDE HACER UNA DIFERENCIA

"IT IS IN OUR HANDS"
"ESTA EN NUESTRAS MANOS"

Example of short questionnaire:

link to CAPCOG Census Coordination Blog

www.census.gov/schools