Despite winding up its data collection work two weeks earlier than scheduled, top U.S. Census Bureau officials said Wednesday that more than 99 percent of the nation’s households were accounted for in the 2020 U.S. Census.

The Census Bureau stopped its non-response follow-up operations on Oct. 15 after the U.S. Supreme Court granted a request by the administration of President Donald Trump to suspend a lower court injunction that prevented the bureau from halting field work before Oct. 31.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.