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Thanks
to our 3,086 southern New Jersey partners, who helped make Census
2000 a success.
New Jersey
- New
Jersey, "The Garden State," has 21 counties and 13 seats in
the U.S. House of Representatives.
- New Jersey
had a population of 7,747,750 million in 1990 and a mail response
rate of 65%. In 2000, the response rate was 68%. Currently
ranked the 9th most populous state in the United States, Census
2000 shows that New Jersey's population has grown to 8,414,350.
- Dramatic
population growth in the last decade means Census 2000 figures
will have a tremendous impact on the allocation of resources
and the distribution of federal dollars for a decade.
- Census
2000 figures will determine New Jersey's political representation
in Congress and its annual share of more than $185 billion
dollars to be distributed every year for the next ten years.
Money for schools, day care, health care, jobs, new businesses
and housing development is only a sampling of what's at stake.
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