The 2010 Census: Ensuring a Complete Count in California
California’s population is among the most difficult to count. California has 10 out of 50 counties nationwide with the largest hard to count populations, 12% of the total U.S. population and 25% of the nation’s undocumented population.
Hard to Count populations in California include: people of color, young children, immigrants, and people with limited English proficiency, renters, highly mobile people, people who are unemployed and people who are homeless.
County |
County Population Living in HTC Areas |
Los Angeles | 4,418,226 |
San Diego | 676,357 |
Orange | 647,478 |
San Bernardino | 608,431 |
Fresno | 465,123 |
Riverside | 420,005 |
Alameda | 346,073 |
Sacramento | 338,504 |
Kern | 278,838 |
San Francisco | 208,595 |
Source: The Census Project |