According to officials at the City of Sammamish, there is an error in a number of the 2010 Census questionnaires sent to Sammamish residents.
Many of the census questionnaires sent to Sammamish residents indicate a Redmond or Issaquah address.
To remedy that, the census bureau is telling residents to simply correct the city name on the form you mail back. Even if you don’t do that, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves said a code on the questionnaire will correctly place you in Sammamish.
If your form has a different city name or zip code than the one you are used to seeing on your mail, but is otherwise correct, Graves said to note the following:
• The actual location of your address has been verified for accuracy. The 20-digit identification number on your form links back to our master address and geographic files where we store the information about the correct geographic location to which your housing unit belongs.
“This geographic information was verified last year by census workers who physically located each housing unit on the ground and assigned the housing units a ‘geocode’ using special census maps and GPS coordinates,” he said. “The address on your census form or advance letter may not list the city name or ZIP code you identify with or are used to seeing on your mail. This is a result of a cost-saving measure that streamlines how the forms are sorted and delivered to you by the U.S. Postal Service. It will not affect which city, town or block your household’s responses will be assigned to when we tabulate census results.”
To make sure these mistaken city names won’t affect the results of the census count, Sammamish city officials have been in close contact with the census bureau. The city Web site will be updated as more information becomes available.
If you have concerns or questions about the census questionnaire, please call 866-872-6868. Additional information is also available online at 2010census.gov.
Phone numbers for other languages:
Spanish 1-866-928-2010
Chinese 1-866-935-2010
Korean 1-866-955-2010
Vietnamese 1-866-945-2010
Russian 1-866-965-2010
For the hearing impaired, TDD 1-866-783-2010
