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Census Bureau outlines geography, LUCA and redistricting timetable for 2030 count
Summary
Census Bureau officials briefed the Massachusetts Senate committee on geography programs that underpin the 2030 census, urging early participation in LUCA, the boundary and annexation survey and voting-district collections and describing a 2031 statutory delivery deadline for redistricting data.
Boston — Officials from the U.S. Census Bureau told a Massachusetts Senate committee that state and local participation in the bureau’s geography and address programs must begin years before Census Day to produce accurate 2030 redistricting counts.
The Census Bureau’s James Whitehorn, chief of the Redistricting and Voting Rights Data Office, and Andrea Grace Johnson, deputy division chief of the bureau’s Geography Division, described a multi-phase program that includes block-boundary review, voting-district collection and the once-a-decade Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA).
"LUCA is the only opportunity to have to look and see what we have and provide feedback, whether that's adding missing addresses, deleting addresses that don't exist, or identifying when something's in the wrong spot," Andrea Grace Johnson said. She told the committee LUCA will begin in…
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