Detroit challenges 2020 census claiming population undercounted by 8%
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 10, 2022
Detroit — a majority Black metropolitan city of more than half a million residents — became the largest U.S. city to challenge the national headcount of the 2020 census, with local officials claiming that nearly a tenth of its population was left out of the final totals, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
In its filing to the bureau last week, Detroit claimed that at least 8% of occupied homes in 10 of Detroit's neighborhoods were undercounted and that the data, which is collected every decade, is inaccurate. The discrepancy was revealed in December after an . . .
