Not bad, D.C., not bad. New data from the 2010 Census shows that the District of Columbia has now reached a 68 percent level of participation, which means 2 percentage points more of us mailed in our Census forms this year than did in 2000. Last we checked a little over a week ago, we were still hovering at 66 percent. The District’s rate of mail-in participation is still below the national average of…

We’ve been having fun playing with this interactive map from the 2010 Census, which provides nearly real-time updates on the mail-in participation rate by jurisdiction. A “Mail Participation rate” is the percent of forms mailed back by households that received them. To find your area’s 2010 Census participation rate using the map, enter your zip code, or your city and state, in the search field and click the “Find” button. Once you do this,…