1. Start with the exact geography your firm wants to measure
Grand Blanc charter township is a municipal-town in Genesee County. A population estimate can help define the community you intend to serve, but it cannot tell you how many people need legal help or how they will contact a firm. Attribution should therefore preserve the geographic context of an inquiry rather than turn a population number into a demand claim. When reviewing a Grand Blanc inquiry, your team should be able to distinguish the page or campaign context from the person’s actual location, practice-area fit and intake answers. Those are separate fields with separate decisions attached to them.
Recommended approach
Agree on how your firm will identify Grand Blanc-related inquiries in its own records. Review whether location is captured as part of intake, whether the service page reflects the intended geography, and whether later outcomes can be connected to the original inquiry. Treat the Census geography as planning context, not as a forecast.
