Trustees this week authorized the village’s third special census in this decade.
An up-to-date census that reflects the village’s growth rate could boost New Lenox’s share of population-based revenues from the state by $180,000 a year, according to planning and development administrator Carrie Hansen.
Per capita revenues bring in about $92 per person.
“You want to get the most recent data (to calculate those revenues),” Hansen said.
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The request for the head count must be filed with federal officials by Oct. 23 and the census has to be completed by June 1998.
The village population in a 1993 special census was 10,563, she said. In 1995 it was 12,692, and the town is still growing.
“We think we’re at 14,200 right now,” Hansen said.