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Boston planning staff say 2020 census left about 25,000 residents uncounted, urge early outreach and race/ethnicity fixes
Summary
The City of Boston told the legislature it estimates roughly 25,000 residents were not captured in the 2020 census (about 6–7,000 of whom were group-quarters residents later documented) and urged state and local leaders to fund outreach, LUCA participation and improved race/ethnicity reporting to avoid repeated undercounts.
Alvaro Lima of the City of Boston’s planning/research staff told a Massachusetts legislative hearing that the city estimates an undercount of roughly 25,000 residents in the 2020 census, and urged sustained local and state work to prevent similar gaps in 2030.
“We had, our calculations is that we had an undercount of around 25,000,” Lima said. “7,000 of those people were in group quarters.” He said the city worked with the Census Bureau to correct the group-quarters component using university and institutional lists, but that the residential undercount persisted and was…
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