Carbon County is continuing its preparations for the upcoming 2020 census.

On Thursday, Commissioner Chris Lukasevich spoke about the Carbon County Council of Governments meeting, which on Tuesday hosted a municipal official education meeting on the upcoming census.

He handed out an information copy of the questions that residents will be asked on the census, which includes the number of people living in the home, type of home, residents’ ages as of April 1 and races.

The census figures provide a new picture on where money will be distributed and how congressional districts will be aligned for the next decade.

The census aims to count every person in the U.S. every 10 years and provides valuable information aimed at supporting governments financially, determine how many seats are held by a state in the U.S. House of Representatives and define legislative districts in states.

Lukasevich said that the census bureau is looking for mobile census centers in the county where people can go to fill out their census if they either need help or do not have access to a computer. The census can either be done electronically or by mail.

In addition, Lukasevich said the COG is also looking at communal living areas, such as homeless shelters or treatment centers, where people live together, but are not related. These communal areas will also be counted, and the COG is working to identify locations so that field representatives can visit those locations after April 1.

“The census bureau emphasizes that this year, compared to other decennials, that this (the census) is safe, it’s easy and it’s important,” Lukasevich said last month. “That means that first it is safe, because your information is protected. It’s not shared with any other organization or agency. It’s easy (because) it’s simply 10 questions, and you can do it over the phone or via the internet, and it’s important, because it has to do with federal funding … and how congressional districts are aligned.”

The census figures collected could mean $20,000 over the next decade for Carbon County, Nothstein said last month.

Carbon County has grown in population over the past 20 years.

In 2000, the census results showed 58,802 residents in Carbon County. Ten years later, that number grew to 65,249.

For more information on the upcoming census, visit www.census.gov.