After the U.S. Census Bureau announced the first round of official population corrections for 2020 in January, many states and cities have responded to most of the counting problems and the funding shortfalls those accidents could cause. Still waiting for action.

Early winners are areas that had obvious technical problems in the census. Due to mapping issues and uncertain boundaries, prisons in Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee were misplaced, and populations were mistakenly added to nearby areas.

For example, in Whiteville, Tennessee, nearly 2,000 returned to that number in 2020, up 75% from the census of 2,606 after the prison population was mistakenly added from nearby areas. Thanks to Timothy Kuhn, Director of the Tennessee Data Center in Knoxville. This update brings the revised population count above her 4,500.

boost helps town Estimated $167 per person The state’s data-sharing estimate is that state annual funding distributed based on population, or $327,000 per year, will be lost.

However, the largest cases in big cities are still pending, especially affecting areas with large populations of racial minorities.

of the Census Bureau new fix show Approved change Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin under the Count Question Resolution Process (known as CQR) .

Other changes are still under consideration, including some in the same states, according to Census Bureau records. Also includes California, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Utah. 32 in total submitted so far.23 more lawsuits were filed with a similar program A number of facilities such as college dormitories and nursing homes are counted, but results are not published for any of them.

Much like Yuma County, Arizona, chaos continues. There is early results A count correction shows the town of Somerton getting six.

But the city of Yuma was told only that seven of the 20 challenges had been approved.the city can’t find it by 2024said state demographer Jim Chang.

It’s typical of other communities disputing the number of census figures that have been approved but not yet published, said Terry Ann Lowenthal, a Connecticut-based census consultant.

“The Census Bureau needs to be more transparent about this,” said Lowenthal. “Local governments put a lot of effort into reviewing and compiling evidence about underestimation, and they are very frustrated when the answer is a written resolution that gives unexplained results.”

The Census Bureau declined to answer for the record, but pointed to public documents explaining why it withheld details in some previous tally reviews. This is to maintain a small area to protect privacy and confidentiality rules for individual institutions.

State and local governments must submit cases to the CQR program or another program by June 30 to verify the number of facilities such as prisons and college dormitories. Post-Census Group Quarterly ReviewCensus takers faced considerable confusion over how to count people in facilities in the spring of 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when many students went home and nursing homes stopped accepting visitors. Did.

The largest cases in large cities such as Austin, Texas. Memphis, Tennessee. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tempe, Arizona is still pending. Milwaukee is seeking an increase of nearly 16,000 people, a large part of the nearly 18,000 population decline recorded in 2020 compared to 2010.

The city has evidence to support claims that some housing units were missed and others were incorrectly listed as vacant, according to Jordan Primakow, Milwaukee’s senior government relations manager.

The city isn’t expected to be entirely successful — the Census Bureau’s challenge program doesn’t include reconsidering vacancy decisions — but it’s important to note the reasons for the underestimation anyway.

“The criteria they are willing to review are very narrow,” he said.

Primakow adds that undercounting problems are typical in urban areas with large minority populations, like Milwaukee, and the Census Bureau is encouraging people to submit information that will help future counts, even if current guidelines can’t fix it. encouraged each city. The Census Bureau 2022 report In 2020, we underestimated black residents by 3.3% and Latinx residents by almost 5%.

“I’ll throw a lot of spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks,” he said. “We can’t keep saying, ‘I’m sorry, we underestimated minority groups again.’ At some point, we have to do something about it.”

On the other hand, in Tennessee online map It’s an issue that has affected Cleveland, Tennessee, and other cities in the state, and is used by local governments to seek advice and check false boundaries.

This could help more places, such as Whiteville, where changes can have a big impact on funding.

“When you can impact so many people in one place like this, it’s really worth doing,” said Kuhn of the Tennessee Data Center.

Other cases resolved in the first round of amendments included Grenville, Georgia, which saw an increase of 1,455, a 38% increase from the first number in 2020.The initial count clearly did not include Misplaced State Prison.

Whitewater, Wisconsin also got an additional 1,248. 8% increase Move that number from the original 2020 count from the village near Fontana on Lake Geneva. As the population grew, so did the problem of political representation. Had the challenge been unsuccessful, the county would have needed more village representation.

at Carrico Rock, Arkansas doubled the population to 1,815 after a successful challenge and recovery of the North Central Unit state prisonpopulation back to the city.