(NEWSnet/AP) — Illinois is adding tens of thousands of people to its population total, and California is getting misplaced sailors place in the correct location, after successfully asking for a review of 2020 census figures.
New York City also appears to have gotten an additional 1,090 people added to its population total recently, after asking the Census Bureau to double-check the city’s numbers from the head count of every U.S. resident, city officials said.
The census produces population figures that help determine political power and the annual distribution of more than $2 trillion in federal funding. The Census Bureau has two programs giving governments opportunities to have their population totals reviewed and adjusted in necessary. Nearly 200 requests for reviews were filed by tribal, local and state governments for the 2020 census.
Changes from the reviews will be applied only to future annual population estimates used for the remainder of the decade in determining federal funding.
For California, with 38.9 million residents, it was more about putting things in the right place rather than adding people. The placement of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, along with its more than 5,000 crew members, was corrected so it’s in National City, rather than San Diego. Although part of the ship is located in San Diego, what matters is where crew members board the ship, and that part of Naval Base San Diego is in National City, state officials said.
Four-thousand prisoners at the Mule Creek State Prison also were reallocated from Amador County to the city of Ione.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced this month that the nation’s sixth most populous state was approved for an additional 47,000 people to its population total after the state asked for a review of its census figures. Illinois officials believed the 2020 census had overlooked more than 40,500 people living in care homes or senior living facilities and more than 5,800 college students living in dorms, the governor’s office said.
The Census Bureau appears to have added 1,090 people to New York City, the most populous city in the U.S. The exact figure is unknown since the bureau doesn’t tell governments precisely how much the total was changed, only that all or part of their review was approved. City officials estimated the adjustment by comparing changes in numbers that are released annually with population estimates from the Census Bureau, said officials in the city’s Department of City Planning.
New York City officials believed hundreds of inmates and students at Hunter College, Pace University and Wagner College were missed in its 2020 count.
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