When Marines are deployed from North Carolina's Enslough County, Glenn Hargett says you can feel the shift on the streets.

It is a lot easier to get around, particularly at five o'clock.

Hargett is an assistant manager in Enslough. That's a Southern Coastal County.

The home of Jacksonville, North Carolina, the other Jacksonville, and the home to Camp LeJune, the largest military amphibious training base for the Marines.

Camp LeJune is home to some 47,000 service members, but 10 years ago, during the 2010 census, some of them weren't counted as residents of the area.

And that's because they were deployed overseas. And the rule at the time was that they were considered residents at the address they gave when they enlisted.

Hargett says that may have led to an undercount in that 2010 census, the Costs North Carolina Federal funding, and it made it harder to attract investment.

We want businesses to locate here, and they look at our community and see that there's a lot of people that aren't being counted in the census, and they don't take us seriously because that number is smaller than what might be the real number.

It's important that you are counted here.

In this video, promoting the 2020 census at Camp LeJune, you can hear things are very different now.

It benefits the quality of life of those who come after you, and it helps everyone in the community.

It's very easy to respond to the census.

For the first time, deployed troops were counted as residents of the bases or ports where they were stationed, including Camp LeJune.

Six states will gain seats in the House of Representatives.

And that's just a little context for this announcement on Monday.

Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon will each gain one seat.

North Carolina picked up a seat in the House of Representatives based on the newest census count, so did Colorado and Florida and Texas, Texas picked up two seats.

All states that are also home to multiple military bases.

Consider this.

The census is much more than a headcount.

It determines how much influence states have in Congress and in picking future presidents.

The first major results of the 2020 census are here. We'll tell you what they mean for the balance of power in America.

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