Timeline

Though Census Day, April 1, 2020, is still a while away, we're hard at work preparing for an accurate count.

Prep and Enumerator Recruitment	Completing the Census
July 2017 - April 2018 Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program for local governments	January 2020 Enumeration of remote Alaskan communities takes place.
2018 Complete Count Committees begin local Census organizing work	March 2020 Door-to-door enumeration and Enumeration at Transitory Locations begins. Census postcards are sent to most homes.
April 2018 Census questions delivered to Congress	April 1, 2020 2020 Census Day
July 2019 Communications and advertising campaign begins	April 2020 Non-response Follow-up begins for households that did not submit a Census form
Fall 2019 Recruitment begins for Census enumerators. Census enumerators will follow up with non-responders.	May–July 2020 Census workers visit addresses from the Census Master Address File that did not complete a Census questionnaire and collect information at the door.
August 2019 In-field Address Canvassing and Group Quarters operation begins	December 31, 2020 The Census director delivers apportionment counts to the president.
	March 2021 The Census Bureau completes delivery of redistricting counts to the states.