{"id":1633753,"date":"2022-09-06T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633753"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:34:36","slug":"census-undercounted-memphis-by-16000-residents-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/census-undercounted-memphis-by-16000-residents-mayor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Census Undercounted Memphis by 16,000 Residents, Mayor Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcensus-undercounted-memphis-by-16000-residents-mayor-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633753&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-2020-census\">2020 census<\/a> undercounted his city by almost 16,000 residents, leading him to join other big cities in challenging the results of the once-a-decade head count in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jim Strickland says the census missed 15,895 residents, and that Memphis actually grew for the first time in 50 years between 2010 and 2020. The 2020 census, however, said Memphis had 633,104 residents in 2020, a drop of 13,785 residents from 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The count failed to include an area that had been annexed in 2013, and it missed thousands of homes, mostly in newly constructed, multifamily buildings, resulting in an undercount of 6,322 housing units, Strickland said in an Aug. 19 letter to the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Census count was wrong. The gains we have seen in investments in Memphis, especially in the core city, over the last few years tell a different story,\u201d Strickland said in a weekly bulletin to his constituents.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 census missed 4.8 percent of Tennessee\u2019s population, the second highest undercount of any U.S. state, according to a state-by-state evaluation the Census Bureau did of how good a count it conducted. Along with Arkansas, Florida, and Texas, Tennessee did not direct as many resources as other states toward encouraging residents to fill out census forms.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis joins Austin, Texas, and Detroit among the largest U.S. cities appealing the population counts used in the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal funding each year.<\/p>\n<p>As of August, around four dozen cities, towns, villages, and tribal areas have challenged their figures from the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 census undercounted the overall U.S. population by only 0.24 percent. But several minority groups were undercounted at greater rates than in the previous decade.<\/p>\n<p>States and municipalities have until the middle of next year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, says the 2020 census undercounted his city by almost 16,000 residents, leading him to join other big cities in challenging the results of the once-a-decade head count in the United States. 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