Weldon Cooper Center: "be very cautious using any 2020 Census race data."

"Add in the impact of the Census Bureau's privacy algorithm," says Lombard, "and I would not try comparing and be very cautious using any 2020 race data."

Well, we've got new 2020 Census numbers for Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and our total populations have gone up since the 2010 Census, but for anyone hoping to understand how the racial composition of our area has changed (like The DTM had hoped) in the last decade by comparing 2020 race and ethnicity numbers and percentages with their 2010 num…