The U.S. Census Bureau seeks public comment on that 2026 Locate Address Test for Accessory Dwelling Units by June 6, 2026.
“An essential component of planning for the constitutionally-required 2030 Census is planning for operations that ensure a complete and accurate address frame, including housing units that may be hard to identify or locate. Secondary units, commonly known as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), are smaller self-contained, attached or detached, residential units that are located on a property with the main house. To enumerate people living in secondary units, which are not always represented on publicly available or U.S. Postal Service address lists, the 2030 Census will rely on a multifaceted approach involving address frame maintenance, enumeration methods through self-response and in-field data collection, and public promotion and outreach with local organizations. The 2026 Locate Address Test for Accessory Dwelling Units (LAT ADU) was designed to assess the feasibility of obtaining ADU addresses through local government partnerships and to identify potential challenges with locating ADUs during in-field census enumeration activities. The results will help refine strategies for the 2030 Census Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) operation, an address partnership program established by Congress through the enactment of Public Law 103-430 (The Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994), and the In-Field Enumeration (IFE) operation, a field activity that collects census responses in person.”
The LAT ADU local government outreach was run last year and the “field activity to locate and classify the ADUs will occur in September 2026… within a 25-mile radius of Census Bureau facilities in Suitland, Maryland and Jeffersonville, Indiana.”
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 2030 Census Locate Address Test for Accessory Dwelling Units https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/06/2026-08807/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-omb-for
