Housing in City of Sisters â by the numbers
By Bill Bartlett
The 2020 Census is delayed — again.
Trying to get a peek at the new number for Sisters’ population is frustrating. We put a man on the moon 50 years ago but it’s been almost 10 months since the official count started and we still don’t have a number for Sisters. It is understandable that Portland or Eugene might take a while to tabulate, but Sisters? Not even a preliminary number. Not even an estimate.
In the years between the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts periodic analyses and projections of population and housing in what they call the American Community Survey (ACS). In their 2014-2018 ACS five-year projection, the Bureau estimated our population would be 2,838 in 2020.