….Madisonâ??s point man on the census, planning staff member Brian Grady, says the city is working with members of its Complete Count Committee and the organizations it represents to get an accurate count of the cityâ??s population. Every person not counted means the loss of an estimated $1,000 a year in federal funding to the community, he says.
The city has focused on census tracts that had a low response rate in the 2000 census, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, South Park Street, Fish Hatchery Road near the Beltline and Allied Drive. Mail-in returns of the 2000 census for those areas ranged from 60 to 70 percent, compared to 81 percent for the city as a whole.