2020 Census Office Opens In Southeast Colorado Springs

From the City of Colorado Springs:

Fri, 10/25/2019 - 9:00am

The Southern Region Census Office serving El Paso and Teller Counties is now open on the southeast side of Colorado Springs. The office is located on South Academy Blvd and Hancock Expressway in the Mission Trace Shopping Center.

The office will support and deploy the 2020 Census operation in El Paso and Teller counties as well as southern Colorado (stretching from the Kansas border to the western slope, and all the way down to the CO/NM border). The office will house the managers, staff, materials, and equipment needed to support the hundreds of Census Bureau employees conducting local census operations, including following up with households that do not respond, counting residents living in group housing, and other enumeration operations to ensure a complete count of our population in southern Colorado.

2020 Census Jobs - Be a Census Taker - Be a Part of History

The Census is hiring

The U.S. Census Bureau is recruiting workers for temporary jobs in advance of the 2020 Census. It is looking for 500,000 census takers across the country. Right now approximately 4,070 applicants are needed in El Paso county and about 382 applicants for Teller county. There will be a job fair here in Colorado Springs on October 26, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at Library 21C (1175 Chapel Hills Drive, Colorado Springs, CO)

The Census is safe

The Census Bureau is required by law to protect any personal information it collects and keep it strictly confidential. The Census Bureau can only use your answers to produce statistics. In fact, every Census Bureau employee takes an oath to protect your personal information for life. Your answers cannot be used for law enforcement purposes or to determine your personal eligibility for government benefits.

Your census responses cannot be used against you by any government agency or court in any way - not by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), not by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), not by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and not by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The law requires the Census Bureau to keep your information confidential and use your responses only to produce statistics.

The Census is important

The U.S. Census takes place every 10 years and counts every person living in the country. The data is important to Colorado Springs because it determines how millions of federal dollars are allocated to states and communities like ours each year. It also determines how many representatives Colorado gets in Congress.

To help make sure everyone is counted, local census committees are formed. Ours is the Pikes Peak Area Complete Count Committee. You can find them at pikespeakcensus.com on Facebook (link is external), Twitter (link is external), and Instagram (link is external).

Your Community Is Counting On You

This press release was produced by the City of Colorado Springs. The views expressed here are the author’s own.