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Community Board 2 staff to receive census-tract response maps to target outreach
Summary
Amy (assistant secretary) reported she is coordinating with the Census community outreach team and Gail Breweroffice to obtain tract-level response-rate maps so the board can identify low-response areas and consider targeted outreach.
Amy, the assistant secretary taking minutes for the meeting, told the committee she had been gathering information from other boards and the census community-outreach staff. She said Gail Brewer's office will send a document that maps Community Board 2 census tracts and highlights low-response tracts in red.
"She's going to highlight, for each one what the response rate is ... and she's going to group them by ... Noho, Soho, Greenwich Village," Amy said, and she expected to deliver the document "end of this week or early next week."
Why it matters: the tract-level mapping will let the board and local groups focus door-knocking and outreach resources on the neighborhoods with the lowest census response rates.
Follow-up and next steps
Amy said she will compile notes and suggested the board consider forming a temporary committee or targeted outreach plan once the census tract data arrive. Carter and other members said they could use the map to ask local groups to help increase response rates.
No formal vote or funding commitment was recorded. Amy said she will circulate the tract mapping when the census team provides it.
