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2010 Census Gets Under Way in Remote Alaska

Noorvik Residents Gain Distinction of First in Nation to be Counted

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From a remote Alaskan village north of the Arctic Circle, U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves officially started the nation's once a decade population headcount by personally conducting the first enumeration for the 2010 Census.

Census takers must get a head start in Noorvik and other villages in remote Alaska before residents leave for hunting and fishing grounds. Residents of Anchorage, Fairbanks and other larger Alaska cities will receive 2010 Census questionnaires by mail in mid-March like the rest of the country.

In 2000, this Inupiat Eskimo village had a population of 634. The latest Census Bureau estimates put the population at about 660.

Alaska's vast, sparsely settled areas traditionally are the first to be counted.

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