Recommendation to receive and file a presentation on 2020 Census population data for the City of Long Beach.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Let's go back to item 48. Sorry about that stuff. Right. So picking up where we left off, you know, there's the sense is there was is historic for many reasons but the pandemic obviously had a significant impact on the operations of the census and particularly the the schedule. The schedule was extended from its attention to its initial timeframe from July 31st to October 31st, and then abruptly ended on October 15th at the behest of the last administration, despite the challenges with the pandemic. We're proud of the fact that we were still able to leverage significant and historic investment from the state and collaborate with the state and the county for a city wide effort in implementing the census successfully. And foundational to that, or the centerpiece of that was to work with the community through the Long Beach Complete Count Committee, consisting of about 45 different local institutions representing the business sector, the health sector, educational sector, as well as community based organizations. With that said, we had our project manager with Julius renewed. He did a wonderful job working with us in the community and the organization to move this initiative forward. And so I'm going to turn it over to Julian, and he will walk us through the data that we have to present tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you, Kevin. So to begin with, looking at the data we have here for the year 2010, we had a total population that were counted through the census of 406 to 2257. And in 2020, we have a total population enumerated of 466,742. So that is a net gain of 4485 residents. So that's about a 1% growth over ten years. To the right of that table, you'll see the graph that represents the 2020 population by race and ethnicity. So you'll see that Hispanic or Latino group is at 43.3%. Now white population is 26.1, black population 2%, American Indian at 0.2, Asian at 12.7, Native Hawaiian at point eight and other 8.6. And then two or more races at 4.3%. The next slide also presents a citywide 2020 2020 census data. As for the ethnicity question in the questionnaire, though, what this shows here is that from 2010 to 2020, there was a decrease of 2% in a population that identified as non-Hispanic or Latino, and from 2010 to 2020. The study experienced a 2.9% increase in the population that identified as Hispanic or Latino. So the big takeaway from this slide really is that it's telling us that the city of Long Beach continues to increase its population in the Latino community. This next slide is we think is a very interesting slide. So it is a city wide 2020 census data by race response. So the chart here represents the city's race distribution across the races included in the census questionnaire, which are white, black, American, Indian and Alaska, Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander and then some other race as well. From left to right. So for each race category, let's take the white category, for example. The center column you see there represents the resident that identified only as that specific race. And then the rightmost bar represents residents that identified as that race in combination with another race. So the first column on the left, meaning the dark blue column, then represents the total number of residents that identified by that race. In this example, white both either in part or in whole. The good. The interesting takeaway from this slide is that our residents really, if you can see on the far right under some of the race that residents are identifying as having more than one race than ever before. And with that, you know, to understand that, we'd really have to do some more weight on there, more released from the Census Bureau, and also to conduct additional resources to why that might be the case about an interesting finding there. So I'm moving on to the next slide. The next slide is the top table titled Race of non-Hispanic People. What that table does is that it breaks down the citywide population by race for non-Hispanic residents. So as you can see in the far right column title, percent change that there are less residents who are identified as non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, non-Hispanic American, Indian and Alaskan alone, and also non-Hispanic native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander on. So for the race categories, Asian alone, some other race alone in two or more races categories, those have actually increased. So now moving to the bottom table on this is also an interesting finding here of the preliminary the preliminary data on. Here. The table titled Race of Hispanic People really reveal some interesting information. So from 2010 to 2020, both censuses, there was a 64.6% drop in Hispanic residents who identified as white alone so equal. Interesting also is that there's a significant increase of 178.9% in the American Indian and Alaska Native alone category. And there's also a really sharp increase of 300% in the residents who identify as being of two or more races. So moving to the next slide, slide number seven. On Flight number seven. It really shows the same information as the previous slide, but it shows it in nominal terms. So it gives you the actual number of residents here. You can see the percentages translated into the actual number. So you can see that almost 50,000 more residents are identified as white Hispanics in 2010 than in 2020. On the other hand, there's also a net gain, as you see at the bottom, second and third, third row from the bottom that there's a 24,000 and family residents who identified as some other race alone and a gain of 35,577 residents. Who identified as belonging in two or more races. So, you know, you might have some interesting questions at this point in time, for example. Comparing the data, you can see some interesting questions may arise. So for example, like, you know, what has caused the drops in residents that identify as alone a white alone Hispanics? What has caused the increase in the number of residents who identified as some of their race alone and two or more races? And then, you know, might there be a connection between this kind of enumeration that happened the 2020 census? So these are certainly intriguing and interesting questions. And again, we would kind of have to wait to see additional datasets being released by the census to see what is actually happening. And, you know, a more local level, we probably would want to see some studies to understand how they're related and why this is happening. So moving to flight number eight. So we're going to move into just more census data by council districts. So now that the citywide data has kind of been reviewed from a high level, we also do that on a council district level for you. So to begin with here on Slide nine or really what you see here is just a table slide that represents the same information that you'll see on the following slide. At this table here includes the columns for a nominal population, data for the 2010 and 2020 censuses, and those are the second and third columns from the left. So here's a map that kind of represents that for you visually. What you see here is that the visually, the darker blue a district appears, the larger the population. Gaining experience from the 2010 to 2020 census is the district. And in contrast, districts appearing lighter mean that there was a loss in population. And you'll see there's even a couple of districts there that have gone from a light blue to, you know, almost like a light red, indicating a loss in population. So the take away from this visual here is that districts one in six have lost the most population, while districts five, seven and eight have gained the most populations . Meanwhile, districts two, three, four and nine have remained largely the same or experienced some modest growth. Slide number 11 is represents here a pie chart that represents a district's population broken down by race and ethnicity. And this slide really has value because it allows you to very quickly determine which districts have large and small populations of a certain race or ethnicity. And it's really good to do a quick comparison if you want to add longer between certain districts to see how they differ in race and ethnicity. This is just an additional slide here, table for your reference. And again, it just represents the exact same information as the previous slide, but in the table format, in case you really kind of want to dig in there into the numbers. Slide number 13 shows the percent change by race for each district from 2010. 2020. I'm sorry, can you just go back to slides really quick, too? There we go. It's one. Make sure I'm reading this right. So let's take Council District one or two. So 59.3 is the Latino Hispanic population, right? That's not the citizen voting age population. It's just a total population. Correct. Total population. There's a census to see VAP or the just does total population. They'll do they'll do both. They do total population. Also 18 plus. Okay, 18 plus the c bap include 18 plus non-citizens or C that includes all voting population. See, that includes all voting population. Yeah, not. Not. Not, uh. Include all voting population, but including undocumented or including folks that are that are not counted as as as voters. I've always wondered about that, about the census, the way that that presents. So from our understanding, the questionnaire asked, You know what? You are born and raised from there it is how they decipher your age. So it it's citizen voting age population, correct? Yeah, that's. Yeah. Because there is. You might remember that. Thank you. Thank you. Um, the citizenship question, which was not on the questionnaire. So going back to fight number 13, it shows the change by race for each district from 2010 to 12 and 20. The interesting pattern here that emerges across all districts, if you can see the father's two columns, is that there are significant percent increase of residents that selected other or two or more races. And so this is something that also would be interesting to look at in the future as the census continues to release information. And then slide number 14. This just shows the same information as the previous slide, but this table really shows more clearly the percent increases in the other race and the two or more races. And because in the previous slide, those bars were actually truncated just for I'm for a graphic and visual effect. But you can see here that feeds 1 to 6 and eight. For example, I experienced the largest increases coming near or above a 200% growth in the category of other race. As we begin to wrap up here. Slide number 15. This shows the nominal change by race and ethnicity for each district from 2010 2020. And this graph shows the actual number of people gained or lost in each district by race and ethnicity. So contrasting this graph with the previous graph on the percent changes graph, one can see that although the other and two or more races categories appear significantly percent increases. Normally the growth is smaller. So just a quick comparison. You see the last two columns there in each council district graph are very high, indicating a high increase percentage wise. Nominally they are a lot smaller. But what you do see here is that the white and the Latino categories do not appear as dramatic percent increases in the previous table, but nominally on this slide. There is a significant gains and losses in the number of residents that identified as Latino or white from 2010 to 2020. So you almost kind of see the opposite as far as the height and decrease of the bars there. I mean, this here is also, just for your reference, is the same information provided in the previous graphs. And with that being said, you know, kind of the big four takeaway here is that we can glean from the initial information is that Long Beach is becoming more Hispanic or Latino. The Long Beach white population has decreased in contrast to the 2010 census. The Long Beach black population has also decreased. And then lastly, is that interesting pattern that continues to show in the data, which is that more residents are identifying with the other race and the two or more racist categories. And just a special thank you to Neish, who was the information systems officer and his two interns that were critical in helping us to gather that data for you to present today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much for that presentation. Is your public comment on this? We have three signed up for this item. Dave Sugar Senior can fai Tiffany Davey. They shook the snake and say, Tiffany, please come forward. Your name is called. Please come forward and speak. Thank you. Can you can speak first at the. Son of a cell phone. The courtroom doctor. Okay. Appreciate the presentation by city staff. Just curious if you see the Citron analysis that was recently posted by Washington Post about the undercount of the US Census so that there is up to 2 million African-Americans nationwide that were unaccounted for, ten black children being ten times less likely to be counted as their white counterparts. Thank you. And Hispanics, large Latino children being 3.5 times less likely to be counted. But got a lot of data. I think the way that city staff put it out was an excellent opportunity to see district by district what is what, what is, what is current and what is going on. I think that it's very imperative, especially now with respect to the, you know, the controversial term of the night, the redistricting process, where these things are looking in and where they're going. So I appreciate the presentation and I will definitely be reviewing. I personally noticed and this is according to U.S. Census data, the self-reporting increase. But a lot of the household report's due to, obviously, COVID in the pandemic said family drop in in marginalized communities. So I'm just hoping that we can see some update from the feds with respect to that. I know specifically for in my neighborhood and the 200 block of BURNETT, there was only one apartment building that was visited by a census worker. And so a lot of the undocumented undocumented community in my neighborhood, sadly, were not counted. But, you know, as we know with the census, they do a over a count, an undercount over and under to count the you know, to cover this basis. But with respect to the census, it's imperative that these numbers are as close to the current population as possible, because this is how we do Medicaid and Medicare and Section eight and all of these federal programs that really make or break a trajectory for a lot of these families. But in any case, thank you for this staff report and we'll be reviewing. Good evening. Tiffany in Davie. I want to thank you for this presentation concerning the 2020 decennial census. Now I want to applaud the endeavors of the Census Bureau and local partners leading up to and throughout field operations for the Census. The Bureau face many challenges simultaneously, including the former administration as well as the COVID 19 pandemic. I focus tonight on three areas of improvement for the city as ascertained from my time as a data enumerator for the 2020 decennial census. Through our field operations, both in Los Angeles County, including the city of Long Beach, now had a data collection. The bureau identified four key innovation areas, which included re-engineering and just canvasing, optimizing salt response, utilizing administrative records and third party data as well as rendering field operations. Now, as a result of the pandemic, adjustments were made to the data collection, most notably along the calendar, as well as the schedule. Now. The coffee, manage the processing of data, and work to deliver high quality, defensible data as close to possible statutory deadlines. Now, despite the aforementioned challenges, as well as in concluding data collection, the 2020 census was still able to verifiably count over 99.9% of addresses nationwide. Now I highlight this aspect as essential as a unique identifiers for the establishment of dwellings correlate directly to street addresses which comprise the local data census addresses. Now, while carrying out my data collection duties, I found there to be difficulty not only making contact with a resident of a dwelling lacking an address, but in many of these cases, contact cannot be made within multiple visits, and attempts for proxy were insufficient now. And that also took place with multiple agents across multiple operations, including an initial house unit. Follow up as the non-response follow up as well. Most households across the nation received an invitation to respond to the census by mail during the week of May 12. March sorry, March 12th. The March 20th. Now the importance of there being unique identifiers for addresses is basically to ensure that each member of our community is counted. When we don't have those addresses, we won't do that going forward. We do need to do our best as a city to ensure all dwellings receive unique identifiers and I can see that possibly being encouraged by the participation of the accessory dwelling unit amnesty program and for marginalized communities are included ahead as well as are communicated with the deadlines as they change. And let's ensure that we do outreach, education and participation of the combined community to ensure they can be interviewed when we do conduct those interviews. Thank you. Good evening. I spoke earlier on the Senate calendar about this issue of integrity, of information. I think with the census data, it is absolutely imperative, I believe, that the 2011 and 2010, as well as 2020 decennial census have undercounted our city. I believe that at any given time there are over 500,000 residents in the city, which should be considered a major city. There's a growing body of literature about how this information specifically affected the ability of census enumerators to do their job. So I hope that the city will support efforts by the Census Bureau to make specifically spreading disinformation about the census a crime. And I'd also like to see the city do everything it can to support efforts for the next American Community Survey. That's going to be our best chance to clean up a lot of the problems with the data. Thank you. That concludes the public comment. Thank you. With that, Katherine Austin, any comments? Yeah, I did. I just wanted to comment. I thought this was pretty fascinating. And in my opinion, it's clear that there was an undercount in the census and that there were some bizarre shifts in racial identification. I love to learn more about how and why that was. And I guess one question that comes to mind is, were there any differences in the questions from 2010 to 2020 in terms of or for that particular category? So the categories remain the same. What did change out? A big change. Ever since 1800s, the questionnaire was in paper form. So we were a limited number of character boxes that you could use to identify your race by in the move to a digital era. They moved to Internet based questionnaire, so that allowed for, I believe, was about 120, 130 characters. So I think from the ability of a resident to complete the questionnaire, it just allowed them to include more information about their race background than previously before. And that's just, you know, we believe that there's a lot of other different reasons why this may be the case, but it just has to be. The way the questionnaire was presented to residents this time around was a lot different than beforehand. So so for an African American is of mixed race. And prior to if they were able to just mark on black or African American and now you have another person's identifying with maybe everything else that you may have within your heritage. You may have a few spike in terms of of. Two or more. Racist, right? That's correct. Yeah, that's correct. Which which impacts that that that uses data quite a bit in my opinion. Um, thank you for put American. I think. Councilman, you're Reagan's next. Go ahead. Councilmember. I mean you. Make you a race winner. Really don't have that kind of observation. Obviously, the city of LA, which is changing. We've had a little bit of growth, obviously, but I think we had significant changes in our population shifts in regards to race and ethnicity. One thing I didn't see here in terms of a factor that was obviously very important is the comparison of men and women, where we will see in terms of the population of men and women or LBGTQ youth population. I didn't see that here. Probably was. You probably weren't asked to do that or. I don't know. Was there a question on that in the in the census there? Yeah, there was one of those that's one of the general questions of the ten in the questionnaire, because that data was not included in any of the the graphs that we saw here. So we just curious as to what those numbers are and where and where they are actually in the city. Yeah, I think there will be more details into that in the future. Data table releases. So when they are, we can certainly communicate that to you. Like. Thank you. I'll go next. So, no, I was here in 2010 for the staff report on the last census. And I remember I think Long Beach lost 700 people at that census. 700, 900. It was a more than that. We went up about 800 people. We went up 800. We just it was less than a thousand was almost nothing. We had a small and then this time, you know, 6000 people went up more. Do we have any idea what what attributed to that growth? I know we were stumped before on how did we stay virtually the same size city over a decade. Any thoughts on was it growth with housing? Any any consideration. I would suggest that the growth in the number of new housing that the city has built over the last decade would certainly have been a contributor. It's hard to. Act, and. I know that it's also somehow correlated to the number of jobs. And I think if we can look at the growth in some of our major industries, that could likely be another factor. The only other point I would make is that we think that there's probably more growth, because what we're hearing from some of the national studies is that there was a significant undercount in the system. So I suspect that our numbers are bigger, but there's no way to validate that or to tell what those numbers are. Certainly that's okay. And there'll be other there'll be other counts that that happen. I think we first of all, Mr. Jackson, you did a great job through the census. We know that you faced significant challenges. There was problems with I remember we lot when I went in on behalf of the city to the registrar's downtown, all that meant to kick off the countywide census. And it was that day that like, I think we did like a health order or something requiring masks and no one had masks. So there were significant challenges this time, and I think we all anticipated there would be problems on some significant issues, and that's okay. And we also knew that 2020 was a very nationally politicized year and the administration significantly politicized the census. And that's something that communities tried to overcome. But we would be unwise to assume there wasn't some level of impact to people's confidence in that process, and that's okay. I think what it tells me generally and we're going to obviously I would love to see more data in terms of like what Mr. Tatum was talking about is what are the things that we're doing on a local level that impact growth and how we preparing for growth? And we're not going in a haphazard way, but really thinking about people's ability to live and thrive and have housing and access to open space and those things where we're growing. What attributes to that? That's, I think, an important insight. I think as our population shifts, we need to make sure that we understand the needs of our growing Latino population and what it contributing to the factors of populations that are that may be shrinking. I think Councilman Austin also raised a good point about like my daughters are biracial, they're they're African-American, they're also Latina. So when they grow up, what box do they check? I don't know. And so who knows what the census will look like in the future. But I think we just need to better understand that through data and crossing with, you know, American survey and and other things. But I certainly I want to thank you, Kevin, for four for your efforts in leading this the census this time summer. I think it was in time last time. Right. Good work, both of you. It was Reggie. Reggie Harrison, right. Who was read about it. And I insisted to the redistricting. Right. Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I also would be very interested in pulling the data related to home sales as it changed at the point of. Redistricting. So the fifth District has in the last 15 years been dominantly senior citizens, a lot of original homeowners, a lot of widows and widowers. And in the last 12 months, the turnover in housing and the number of families moved into the community. I look forward to seeing the data related to Unified School District in the fall. All sorts of families have called our office and said, I didn't get into the school nearby my house. Well, because those schools were already full and they're moving in midyear. They moved in during COVID, all these different things. So I don't know what. TAI you have economic development, but I know we've asked for a couple of reports back from the economic development staff, so just something to kind of bridge up because I think that had the census been taken 18 months later, my district would look a little bit different. But who knows what my district will be by Friday? Who knows? Thanks so much. Councilman Tara. Thank you so much for the presentation. I have then also just interested in how we're understanding the data from the census. And you know, I am also intrigued with this, the data around the two or more races that the numbers increase. And I don't mean to be funny, but I'm wondering if we consider maybe these genetic testing like these 23 and me and ancestry now data in the last year has made it so much more accessible that people are now using that as credible data to say that this is my race. So I cannot just say anymore that I'm X. Anymore now that. I've seen this test. Right. I'm just wondering, maybe we can look in that to exploring how much data has impacted people, identifying their race. Yeah. So that's, that's something that we were doing the presentation and we're working with technology innovations that we kind of came up several times. You know what, what is the impact that all this new technology on genetic information, access to people's genealogy have? And and how does that impact the way a resident identifies himself? And, you know, that'd be a very interesting kind of area of study to dig into. And especially here, you know, we have such a diverse community. Thank you. No other public comment or questions? Staff Great job in the presentation. It was good to see the numbers. Please cast your vote. The motion is carried. In. I have about six items that don't have presentations and are going to run to those pretty quickly. Item 51.