Three Bay Area counties tops in state for Census 2020 survey self-response rate

Three Bay Area counties — San Mateo, Santa Clara and Contra Costa — recorded the highest “self-response” rates among California’s 58 counties as part of United States Census 2020, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.

While an accurate census count helps ensure Americans get the federal resources and political representation they’re due, households that responded on their own to the census effort allowed regional census teams to spend more time reaching out to harder-to-find and harder-to-document populations.