By Sarah Gibson

NH Public Radio

Universities and colleges are sending updated guidance to families on how to fill out the U.S. Census, in light of confusion over student residency during campus closures caused by the coronavirus.

Typically, students living in dorms and off campus are counted by the census as residents of their college town. In New Hampshire, this dramatically increases the population of towns like Keene, Durham, Plymouth, and Hanover, in some cases nearly doubling availability of federal aid and the number of state representatives.

But with many students completing the semester remotely, college administrators and the Census Bureau now have to figure out how to get an accurate count during the pandemic.

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