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Well said. Definitely has a much liveable and prettier core than any Northeast city. Maybe the whole country. Very functional, world class and pristine. And some of the safest suburbs/districts/cities are in greater Boston to compliment it's core. Every city has their bad parts, New York has Bronx/Washington Heights/Jamaica/Williamsburg/Parts of Nj... Chicago has south side.. DC has everything east of Union Station. Boston has dot, Brockton, Mattapan and Chelsea.
What does "functional" mean? Transportation? That's not what I experienced or have heard as of late.
Seattle can have a massive homeless problem and still have a high tech, well-educated reputation. They are not mutually exclusive. Look it up, Seattle has the highest college grad share of population among major US cities. In another post, I said Seattle's homeless problem is very obvious and visible to any casual tourist. You see it in downtown, on the waterfront, and under the I-5 onramps.
The defensiveness from some of you Boston natives is hilarious. All BostonBornMassMade and I did was point that Boston has some gritty parts such as in Dorchester and Roxbury, parts that the typical tourist will never see, in fact they are a significant amount of Boston in both area and population. Walking around triple deckers around Fields Corner or even in Roslindale is a very different feel of Boston than walking around the rowhouses in Back Bay or Beacon Hill. Is this even controversial? You guys make it seem like I said something blasphemous, which is ridiculous and a testament to your collective butthurt.
And yeah, 87 people got shot this past weekend in Chicago. Seattle? 1.
I'm not "butthurt". Defensive, yes. Defensive because the topic of Census Response Rates has turned into a crime and seedy neighborhoods discussion of the different cities. "Dorchester and Roxbury full of rundown triple deckers, pothole roads, strip malls, weeds growing everywhere, and heroin addicts" are your exact words. With the exception of the last description (I could see how that may effect Census responses) what does any of that have to do with a topic on Census Response Rates?
You're right, walking around Roslindale vs Back Bay are two totally different experiences, nothing blasphemous or controversial there and I didn't say there was.
Here are the Census response rates for cities with a population of 500,000 or more as of 7/23/2020. The second figure shows the response rates from two months ago (5/24/2020).
73.0% (71.5%) - Louisville, KY
71.6% (69.7%) - Seattle, WA
70.5% (68.5%) - San Jose, CA
69.4% (67.7%) - Portland, OR
68.4% (66.5%) - San Diego, CA
66.0% (63.7%) - Albuquerque, NM
65.9% (63.9%) - Sacramento, CA
64.3% (62.5%) - Denver, CO
63.9% (62.0%) - Las Vegas, NV
62.9% (60.9%) - Jacksonville, FL
62.4% (59.8%) - Fresno, CA 62.4% (60.1%) - United States
62.3% (59.9%) - El Paso, TX
61.3% (59.8%) - Mesa, AZ
61.1% (58.6%) - Austin, TX
61.1% (59.1%) - Oklahoma City, OK
61.0% (59.3%) - Indianapolis, IN
60.6% (58.4%) - Charlotte, NC
60.4% (58.5%) - Tucson, AZ
60.4% (58.1%) - San Francisco, CA
60.3% (58.2%) - Phoenix, AZ
59.4% (57.0%) - San Antonio, TX
59.3% (57.5%) - Fort Worth, TX
59.1% (57.1%) - Nashville, TN
58.7% (56.1%) - Washington, DC
58.1% (56.4%) - Columbus, OH
57.3% (55.7%) - Milwaukee, WI
55.1% (52.6%) - Chicago, IL
54.0% (51.9%) - Dallas, TX
53.8% (50.1%) - New York, NY
53.2% (50.8%) - Houston, TX
52.9% (51.3%) - Memphis, TN
52.7% (50.3%) - Boston, MA
52.3% (50.2%) - Baltimore, MD
52.1% (49.9%) - Los Angeles, CA
51.3% (49.4%) - Philadelphia, PA
Census response rates for cities with a population of 250,000 - 500,000 as of 7/23/2020.
74.2% - Lincoln, NE
72.1% - Madison, WI
71.0% - Henderson, NV
70.8% - St. Paul, MN
69.4% - Minneapolis, MN
69.3% - Virginia Beach, VA
69.1% - Colorado Springs, CO
69.0% - Chandler, AZ
68.8% - Omaha, NE
68.7% - Plano, TX
68.3% - Chula Vista, CA
68.0% - Lexington, KY
67.9% - Fort Wayne, IN
67.5% - Anaheim, CA
67.5% - Irvine, CA
67.1% - Aurora, CO
65.2% - Riverside, CA
65.1% - Oakland, CA
64.4% - Wichita, KS
63.9% - Santa Ana, CA
63.8% - Reno, NV
62.8% - Scottsdale, AZ
62.7% - Raleigh, NC
62.6% - St. Petersburg, FL 62.4% - United States
62.2% - Greensboro, NC
62.1% - Arlington, TX
61.9% - Long Beach, CA
61.7% - Anchorage, AK
61.5% - Bakersfield, CA
60.3% - Stockton, CA
60.0% - Glendale, AZ
59.6% - Tampa, FL
59.2% - Tulsa, OK
58.9% - Pittsburgh, PA
58.6% - Lubbock, TX
57.9% - Durham, NC
56.6% - Kansas City, MO
56.1% - Toledo, OH
54.6% - Atlanta, GA
54.3% - New Orleans, LA
53.9% - Orlando, FL
52.9% - Corpus Christi, TX
51.9% - Cincinnati, OH
49.9% - St. Louis, MO
49.7% - Jersey City, NJ
49.6% - Buffalo, NY
48.8% - Miami, FL
47.2% - Cleveland, OH
46.8% - Laredo, TX
At some point, won't the Census just have to estimate the people who don't respond?
According to the revised schedule due to COVID-19, the Census will be sending enumerators into the field to follow-up with non-response households on August 11th which will run until October 31st. Originally the Census planned to start this on May 13th, but it was pushed back due to the pandemic. The online self-response option will be left open until October 31st as well.
I wonder why boston is so low. It's a very intellectual city so one would think they would be responding with a quickness to the census documents and website etc.
Stereotype. My wife is from the Boston area. Even with its Ivy League rep, there's a wide range of people there.
Currently, Boston ranks in the bottom five cities statewide, with just 53 percent of residents filling out the form online, by phone, or by mail so far. Lawrence and Chelsea are faring even worse, with fewer than 50 percent of the population having filled out the form. In contrast, nearby wealthier and whiter municipalities such as Newton and Melrose have response rates above 76 percent. Overall the state has a 64 percent response rate, a few points higher than the national rate.
Historically, looking at the trends, we tend to be undercounted,” said Sebastian Zapata, a senior analyst and census liaison for the City of Boston. In past years, Boston had among the lowest census return rate in the country, according to the secretary of state’s office, and ranked as the ninth hardest-to-count city among the largest 100 US cities.
Boston entered the season aiming to “hit and surpass” 64 percent, the final self-response rate from 2010, Zapata said. But it’s currently about 12 points short of that goal“
Boston was ranked the 9th hardest city to count in the Census in 2010.
More more than half the city is immigrants, illegal immigrants and students. 1/3rd if the city speaks English poorly. Many students are international and then it has a high family over rate too which doesnt help.
All of these factors have remained the same or gotten worse since 2010, add in COVID and the response rates are now 10-12% below what they were in 2010.
Final 2020 Census self-response rate for top 100 cities
Top 100 US cities by population (city proper area) ranked by 2020 Census final self-response rate (left columns) and +/- percentage points difference compared to 2010 Census self-response rate (right columns). Data excludes Honolulu which the Census did not calculate at the city level and includes the County of Arlington, Virginia. Final national 2020 self-response rate: 67.0% (compared to 66.5% in 2010).
More dense east coast cities and cities with higher minority/black populations respond less. COVID might have impacted the more dense cities more acutely.
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7/23/2020 Update
