---
title: "Final Participation Rate for 2010 Census: 74%"
description: "The Census Bureau today released five sets of population estimates for the nation as of April 1--but not from the soon-to-be-released 2010 Census count."
date: "2010-10-21"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2010/10/21/final-participation-rate-for-2010-census-74/"
---

# Final Participation Rate for 2010 Census: 74%

The total included 2% of households for which forms were received after the April 27 deadline, too late to stop the bureau from sending a census-taker to knock on the door. The 72% mail participation rate achieved before that deadline also matched the 2000 Census rate.

The Census Bureau [news release](http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb10-cn81.html) included a statement by agency director Robert Groves that he was very pleased. [Data for individual states, counties, cities and neighborhoods](http://2010.census.gov/take10map/) are available on the bureau's website.