Tag Archives: 2020 Census

Cookeville is anticipating a transition to a Metropolitan Planning Organization depending on the final results of the 2020 census. Federal transportation legislation requires all urbanized areas of 50,000 people or more to maintain its own transportation plan. Planning Department Director Jon Ward said other surrounding Putnam communities are also expected to be grouped in the organization. “It’s T-DOT,” Ward said. ... Read More »

Sparta residents will start seeing information on their trash cans about taking the 2020 census. Sparta City Administrator Brad Hennessee said the city will be follwing garbage trucks and sticking fliers on cans once they are emptied. Hennessee said showing a population over 5,000 people changes funding for the city. “That’s a bench mark in the up-sizing for the funding ... Read More »

Clay County is one of three counties in the Upper Cumberland with a census response rate below 50 percent. County Executive Dale Reagan said it is critically important for residents to complete the census. “Everyone that we fail to count that’s over a period of ten years (the census is done every ten years), on an average that’s about $1,000 ... Read More »