{
  "alt": "County map of the United States shaded by the share of households that answered the 2020 census on their own. Counties toward the high end of the key are common in the upper Midwest and counties toward the low end are common in Alaska, Maine, West Virginia and the lower Mississippi valley, with a few gray counties that have no published rate.",
  "caption": "Counties toward the high end of the key are common in the upper Midwest, and the four lowest values are in Alaska. The map plots each county's self-response rate; the mean over counties weighted by population is {fact:census_mean}, and the {fact:census_nodata} gray counties have no published rate. State comparisons in the title average county rates weighted by county population.",
  "data": [],
  "id": "census_response_map",
  "notes": [
    "Each gray county has its reason in the tooltip. Puerto Rico is not in County Health Rankings and is not drawn. Connecticut appears as its eight legacy counties.",
    "Census takers counted households in person instead of inviting them to respond in remote Alaska, in remote parts of northern Maine and southeast Alaska, and optionally in tribal areas, so a low self-response rate there reflects how the count was run as well as the residents.",
    "The tooltip also gives voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election, which depends on state voting laws, counts only citizens and divides ballots by an ACS estimate of adult citizens."
  ],
  "source": "County Health Rankings 2024 release, census participation (2020 census; full count of households) and voter turnout (2020; ballots over an ACS 5-year estimate of adult citizens)",
  "spec": {
    "fips": "fips",
    "legendLabel": "Households answering the 2020 census on their own (%)",
    "payload": "census_response_map.json",
    "scale": {
      "domain": [
        50,
        80
      ],
      "palette": "seq",
      "type": "sequential"
    },
    "tooltipKeys": [
      "voter"
    ],
    "tooltipLabels": {
      "voter": "Voter turnout, 2020 (% of citizens aged 18 and over)"
    },
    "value": "rate",
    "valueFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    }
  },
  "subtitle": "Percent of households that answered the 2020 census online, by mail or by phone without a visit from a census taker, by county",
  "title": "Census self-response in 2020 was highest in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and lowest in Alaska, West Virginia and Maine",
  "type": "county-map",
  "width": "full"
}