City Council: WL undercounted in 2020 Census

The West Lafayette Bureau of Motor Vehicles closed after much public outcry in December after Indiana BMV Commissioner Joe Hoage found the branch h...

January 21, 2023
12:32 AM

The West Lafayette Bureau of Motor Vehicles closed after much public outcry in December after Indiana BMV Commissioner Joe Hoage found the branch had seen a significant drop in service.But city officials said the count was off due to a mismanaged census.'It definitely means that all citizens of West Lafayette are going to be underrepresented in some meaningful way by not having the population that's actually here accounted for in their voice,' city councilor Nick DeBoer said.Every decade, the federal government carries out a count of the nation's population and demographics, often through volunteers knocking on people's doors.

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