Undercount in 2020 census not as bad as predicted, analysis finds

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The 2020 census missed an estimated 1.6 million people, but given hurdles posed by the pandemic and natural disasters, the undercount was smaller than expected, according to an analysis by a think tank that did computer simulations of the nation's head count.

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