Finding, let alone counting, all of Detroit’s residents amid all the city’s widespread clusters of vacant structures and foreclosed homes is a huge task.

The Census Bureau, with its work cut out for it, is reaching out into the crevices of minority and ethnic communities all over and is looking for all the help it can get.

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing tackled the issue at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Tuesday, meeting with about 100 census organizers and volunteers, forming a “complete count committee” of volunteers to work with community and religious leaders to help get Detroiters to participate in the census.

“We got just a myriad of citizens here in Detroit from all walks of life who are coming to the table understanding how important this process is and we’ll get the message out to every citizen here in the City of Detroit,” Bing said, according to WDET.

Census mail-in forms are to go out in March. Door-to-door activity is expected to start in April.