Here’s How the Rivertowns are Responding to the 2020 Census

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July 7, 2020

By Linda Viertel—-

As County Executive George Latimer said when the Complete Count initiative started on April 1^st, “The mission is very simple – we want to make sure that if you reside in Westchester County that you are counted.”

Said another way, every individual who is not counted results in a net loss of $2,500 per person in federal aid. With the census calculated only every ten years, any Westchester resident who does not fill out the census forms will deny his/her community ten times that amount, or $25,000 in federal funding for much-needed municipal, infrastructure and public school-related needs. In addition, Congressional representation is determined by the number of residents in an election district, meaning that under-reporting population means a loss of representation in Congress. Here is the percentage of respondents as of July 1^st,–along with the names and contact information of the representative for each village:

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Sleepy Hollow: 59.1%; Diana Loja -dloja@sleepyhollowny.org

Tarrytown: 67.4%; Diana Loja – dloja@sleepyhollowny.org

Irvington: 71.8%: (Greenburgh) Garrett Duquesne -GDuquesne@greenburghny.com

Dobbs Ferry: 68.4%; Liz Dreaper – ldreaper@dobbsferry.com

All Complete Count Census information can be accessed on Westchester County’s Planning Department site: https://planning.westchestergov.com/initiatives/census-2020

The full census response rate below shows how our villages are doing compared with the rest of the county: Census 2020 Response Rates 7/5, Westchester County

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