The 2030 Census Operational Plan is a high-level, narrative description of the operational design or approach for the 2030 Census. This document is a mid-decade snapshot of the work currently underway or planned to successfully achieve our mission.

The mission of the 2030 Census Program is to determine where everyone in the nation lives, count the people at those locations, and share the results with the President, the states, and the American people.

The operational design covers the full scope of the 2030 Census Program which results in a count of the nation’s population and housing across the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and for the four Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). The operational plan is the primary means for communicating the design of the 2030 Census to Census Bureau staff and external stakeholders. 

The 2030 Memorandum Series

A memorandum will be added to this series for any decision that meets the following criteria:

1. A major program level decision that will affect overall design or have significant effect on the 2030 Census operations or systems.
2. A major policy decision or change that will affect the overall design or significantly impact on the 2030 Census operations or systems.
3. A report that documents the research, testing, evaluations, and assessments for 2030 Census operations or systems. 

Memoranda and artifacts will be available on the 2030 Decades webpage at this link:  https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.2030.html