The 2010 Census will start in the remote Alaska Native village of Noorvik, The Anchorage Daily News reports.
The Inupiat Eskimo village is home to about 640 people. Its official count will be the first of the upcoming census.
The U.S. Census Bureau plans to hire about 2,500 people to conduct the count in Alaska, whose population on the 2000 Census was 626,900 people. About 16 percent of the population is Alaska Native.
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2010 census set to start in remote Alaska village
(The Anchorage Daily News 7/31)
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