With nearly two-thirds of Frisco households having finished the U.S. census, the city’s response rate is behind only a handful of the largest cities in the state.
At 64.1%, Frisco had the seventh-highest census response rate among Texas cities with at least 100,000 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
“We were doing really, really well, and then in, I believe mid-April, our numbers dropped, and it was discouraging,” said Sadaf Haq, chair of Frisco’s Complete Count Committee. “When I saw this latest response rate, I was so ecstatic because it just shows we are a city that is responsive to things that matter.”
Frisco’s share of counted residents outpaced that of Texas as a whole and the national rate. Through May 13, an estimated 53.7% of the state’s population had been counted. The national response rate was 59.1%.
“I am really hopeful that those response rates do include our harder to reach population,” Haq said. “Those were the communities that we really were trying to target in educating that you can fill out the census. This information is not going to go anywhere.”
