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Next week, the U.S. Census Bureau anticipates releasing local-level 2010 Census population counts for Illinois, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas. For each state, the Census Bureau will provide summaries of population totals, as well as data on race, Hispanic origin and voting age. These data will be presented for multiple geographies within the state, such as census blocks, tracts, voting districts, cities, counties and school districts. Later this week, the Census Bureau may also announce additional states anticipated for release next week.

According to Public Law 94-171, the Census Bureau must provide redistricting data to the 50 states no later than April 1 of the year following the census. As a result, the Census Bureau is delivering the data state-by-state on a flow basis in February and March. All states will receive their data by April 1, 2011.

Each state's geographic products and redistricting data are first delivered to the state's leadership, such as the governor and majority and minority leaders in the state legislative body. Upon confirmation of delivery to the state leadership, we will release a news release with five custom tables of data and update our interactive online map http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/. At that time, we will release the full data set to our FTP download site. Within 24 hours, the full set of five detailed tables will also be available to the public online at http://factfinder2.census.gov.

For more information on the Census Bureau's Redistricting Data Program, visit https://www.census.gov/rdo and http://2010.census.gov/news/press-kits/redistricting.html.

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