PS. Our location is on Cape Cod, and the rep left a card saying she was with the New York office, which according to their site, does include Massachusetts.
The next census in the U.S. is scheduled to take place in 2030.
Here is the letter they sent our building.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. Census Bureau
Regional Office
Lakewood, CO 80235
March 20, 2025
XXXX
Dear XXXXX
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts more than 100 surveys of households and businesses across the
nation, in addition to the decennial census conducted every ten years.
Units located at Vantage Med Center have been selected for an important national survey. The
Census Bureau interviewer assigned to this address has not been able to contact the occupant(s) at:
• 1911 Holcombe Bld, Apt 808, Houston, TX 77030
• 1911 Holcombe Blvd, Apt 2209, Houston, TX 77030
We are asking for your help to:
• determine if the selected address is vacant or for seasonal use, and/or
• grant our interviewer access to this property so that an interview can be conducted at the
selected address.
Our field representative Denise Purdie is available for contact at 713-723-5077. Denise Purdie will visit
this property to obtain this information and has an official government photo-identification card. Or
you may call the Census Bureau Regional Office at 720-962d-3780 to learn more about the survey.
Congress considers Census surveys to be extremely important and has included in the Census law (Title
13, U.S. Code), an amendment that deals with refusals by owners, managers, etc. to assist Census
employees. Title 13, Section 223 also states that any owner, proprietor, superintendent, or agent who
refuses to grant access can be fined up to $500.00 (a copy of Title 13 Section 223, is enclosed for your
information).
I ask for your cooperation and trust you will extend to our U.S. Census Bureau employee the courtesy
of accessing this property.
Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Cathy L. Lacy
Regional Director
Complete confidentiality is guaranteed under
Title 13, U.S. Code, Section 9
Names and addresses are never reported in our findings
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BY U.S. CENSUS BUREAU SEP. 11, 2024
Each year, the federal government distributes trillions of dollars based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau. These
dollars support programs in your community like health care, nutrition, highways, housing, school lunches, childcare
and so much more. It’s critical that the data used to make these decisions represent your community.
If a Census Bureau field representative visits your property to conduct a survey, please provide access and assistance
in making contact with the household members. You can identify Census Bureau field representatives by their federal
identification badge displaying their picture and their agency branded laptop. To verify their employment, enter their
name on the Census Bureau’s Staff Directory or call 1-800-852-6159.
Local Census Bureau field representatives work every week of the month visiting selected addresses throughout
Texas. They’re conducting demographic and economic surveys year-round to measure changes in population and the
economy across the country. Al information collected through a Census Bureau survey is kept strictly confidential.
Thank you for your cooperation and access to your properties as our staff works hard to capture data representing
your community. Your collaboration improves the quality of the data and the decisions that send money back to
Texas.
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§221 Refusal or neglect to answer question; false answers.
Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by
the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer of employee of the Department of Commerce
or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized
officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule
submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II,
IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or
is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not
more than $100. (b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this §,
and under the condition or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any
answer that is false shall be fined not more than $500. (Amended by Title 18,§ 3559 & 3571)
§222. Giving s u g g e s t i o n s o r i n f o r m a t i o n with i n t e n t to c a u s e i n a c c u r a t e e n u m e r a t i o n
of p o p u l a t i o n .
Whoever, either directly or indirectly, offers or renders to any officer or employee of the
Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof engaged in making an enumeration of
Population under sub charter II, IV or V of chapter 5 of this title, any suggestion, advice,
information or assistance of any kind, with the intent or purpose of causing an inaccurate
enumeration of population to be made, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not
more than one year or both
(Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1158, 68 Stat 1023, amended Aug, 28, 1957, Pub. L 85-207, §16, 71 Stat. 484.)
§223. Refusal by owners, proprietors, etc., to assist census employees.
Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment
house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when
requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce
or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names
of the occupants of such premises or to give free ingress thereto and egress there from to any
duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit
the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and Il of
chapter 5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as
such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I
and ii., including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and
correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be
fined not more than $500. (Amended by Title 18, 3559 & 3571)
§224 Failure to answer questions affecting companies, businesses, religious bodies, and
other organizations; false answers.
Whoever, being the owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant to the person in
charge, of any company, business, institution, establishment, religious body, or organization
of any nature whatsoever, neglects or refuses, when requested by the Secretary or other
authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof,
to answer completely and correctly to the best of his knowledge all questions relating to his
company, business, institution, establishment, religious body, or other organization, or to
records or statistics in his official custody, contained on any schedule or questionnaire
prepared and submitted to him under the authority of this title, shall be fined no more than
$500: and if he willfully gives a false answer to any such question, he shall be fined not more
than $10,000. (Aug.31, 1954. ch. 1158, 68 Stat. 1024, amended Aug. 28, 1957, Pub. L. 85-
207, Section 18, 71 Stat. 484; Oct 17, 1976, Pub. L. 94-521, § 14, 90 Stat. 2465)
If you need further information, you may access our full description of Title
13 by going to:
uscode.house.gov and clicking on “Title 13-Census”
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