The City of Oakland Park, located in the geographic center of South Florida, was incorporated as the City of Floranada in 1925. Four years later, it became known as the City of Oakland Park.

Oakland Park's US 2010 Census Complete Count Committee (CCC) has 19 volunteers members involved with Census awareness, programs & events and outreach. The resident composition of the Oakland Park CCC represents a cross-section of the community who are willing and able to serve until the census is completed in April of 2010, and will help implement a creative outreach campaign in areas that may pose a challenge in 2010. Presently the members include persons from the areas of education, media, business, religion, cultural and community groups.

The U.S. Census: "May we please have 10 minutes of your time?"

The U.S. Constitution requires a national census once every 10 years.
Census forms will be mailed to every household in March 2010 and Census Day is April 1, 2010. In Broward County, more than 800,000 housing units will receive the Census.
You should fill out your census form wherever you are on the day you receive it, regardless of where you live at other times of the year.
Ten minutes is all the time it takes to complete the Census.
The questionnaire asks for name, gender, age, race, ethnicity, relationship and whether the householder owns or rents their home.

Your Census information is completely safe and confidential:

No documents - no problem. Don't be afraid to be counted! Census forms are completely confidential for 72 years and cannot be shared with anyone, including welfare and immigration agencies.
No court of law, not even the President of the United States, can access your individual responses.
Census workers are highly motivated to protect your answers – they are subject to a $250,000 fine and/or a five-year prison term for disclosing any information that could identify a respondent or household.

An accurate Census is vital to secure grants and funding to improve your community:

Federal and state governments use census data to allocate billions of dollars in funding for local community programs, including funding for education, public safety, housing and community development, libraries, transportation, roads and bridges, job training, health care and other human services.
Funds flow to communities who conduct the most complete and accurate count. The loss in funding for government services for just one uncounted person in Broward County was estimated at $1,300 by the 2000 Census Monitoring board. An undercounting of 1,000 residents means a loss in funding for Broward County of $1.3 million or more!
Community organizations use census data to develop social service programs, community action projects, senior lunch programs and child care centers, and businesses use census data to identify where to locate factories, shopping centers, movie theaters, banks and offices – activities that lead to new jobs!

The size of Oakland Park's population determines our representation in Tallahassee and Washington:

Federal and state governments use census data to determine representation in the legislatures. Undercounting results in under-representation.

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