Census Guide: Decennial Censuses: 1790-1930

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Decennial Censuses: 1790-1930

All the volumes in the 1790 - 1930 censuses are located in the GREF Census. Volumes with call numbers beginning with a lower case f (folio) are located in the GREF folio section. Note that Census Bulletins are located in Main HA202 .A2 no. 5(1903)-200(1964).

For reports post 1930 see the Decennial Censuses: 1940-2000

1790 1st census 1800 2nd census 1820 4th census 1830 5th census

1840 6th census 1850 7th census 1860 8th census 1870 9th census Other Internet Sites

1790 1st census [Top]

HA201 1790 B1 Return of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States, according to "An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," passed March the first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. Philadelphia: Printedby Childs and Swaine, 1791.

HA201 1790 C Heads of families at the first census, v. 1-12

1800 2nd census [Top]

fHA201 1800 B1 Return of the whole number of persons withing the several districts of the United States, according to "An act providing for the second census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States." Passed February the twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred. Printed by order of the house of representatives

1810 3rd census [Top]

fHA201 1810 B1 Aggregate amount of each description of persons within the United States of America and the territories thereof, agreeably to actual enumeration made according to law, in the year 1810.

1820 4th census [Top]

fHA201 1820 B1 Census for 1820

fHA201 1820.B2 Digest of accounts of manufacturing establishments in the United States, and of their manufactures / made under direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuance of a Resolution of Congress, of 30th March, 1822.

1830 5th census [Top]

HA201 1830 A.2 Abstract of the returns of the Fifth census, showing the number of free people, the number of slaves, the federal or representative number; and the aggregate of each county of each state of the United States.

ffHA201 1830 b Fifth census; or, Enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States. 1830. To which is prefixed, a schedule of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States, taken according to the acts of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820. Pub. by authority of an act of Congress.

1840 6th census [Top]

fHA201 1840 B1 Sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, as corrected at the Department of state, in 1840. Also in Bancroft Library.

fHA201 1840.B2 Statistics of the United States of America, as collected and returned by the marshals of the several judicial districts, under the ... act for taking the sixth census; corrected at the Department of State. June 1, 1840.

fHA201 1840.C Compendium of the enumeration of the inhabitants and statistics of the United States as obtained at the Department of state, from the returns of the sixth census, by counties and principal towns... to which is added an abstract of each preceding census.

E255 .U6 A census of pensioners for revolutionary or military services, with their names, ages, and places of residence, as returned by the marshals of the several judicial districts, under the act for taking the sixth census.

1850 7th census [Top]

HA201 1850 B1 The seventh census of the United States 1850. Embracing a statistical view of each of the states and territories, arranged by counties, towns, etc. ...and an appendix embracing notes upon the tables of each of the states, etc....with an introduction, embracing the aggregate tables for the United States compared with every previous census since 1790.... Also in Bancroft Library.

HA201 1850.B2 Mortality statistics of the seventh census of the United States, 1850 with sundry comparative and illustrative tables. (33d Congress, 2d sess. House. Ex. doc. 98)

HA201 1850.C2 Statistical view of the United States, embracing its territory, population--white, free colored, and slave--moral and social condition, industry, property, and revenue; the detailed statistics of cities, towns and counties; being a compendium of the seventh census, to which are added the results of every previous census, beginning with 1790, in comparative tables, with explanatory and illustrative notes, based upon the schedules and other official sources of information. Also in Main and Bancroft Library.

HA201 1850.D The Seventh Census. Report of the Superintendent of the Census for December 1, 1852; to which is appended the report for December 1, 1851. Also in Bancroft Library.

HA201 1850 .M4 1968 Message of the President of the United States, communicating a digest of the statistics of manufactures according to the returns of the seventh census.

1860 8th census

HA201 1860.A2 Preliminary report on the eighth census. 1860. (37th Congress, 2d sess. House. Ex. doc. 116) Also in Bancroft Library.

HA201 1860.A212 The United States on the eve of the Civil War, as described in the 1860 census.

HA201 1860.B2 Agriculture of the United States in 1860. Also in Bancroft Library.

HA2011860.B3 Manufactures of the United States in 1860 Also in Bancroft Library.

HA201 1860.B4 Statistics of the United States, (including mortality, property, &c.) in 1860; comp. from the original returns and being the final exhibit of the Eighth Census.... Also in Bancroft Library.

HA201 1860 B5 Population of the United States in 1860. Also in Bancroft Library.

Act of Congress of twenty-third May, 1850; Instructions to U.S. marshals, instructions to assistants.

1870 9th census [Top]

HA201 1870 B1 v.1-3 [Census reports] Compiled from the original returns of the ninth census .... Also in Bancroft Library.

HA201 1870.B2 Statistics of population. Tables I-VIII inclusive.

HA201 1870.C A compendium of the ninth census. Also in Bancroft Library.

ffHA201 1870.E Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870 with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government. Also in Bancroft Library.

1880 10th census [Top]

HA201 1880 B1 [Census reports] Tenth census. Also in Bancroft Library.

Volume 1. Statistics of the Population of the United States.
Volume 2. Report on the Manufactures of the United States embracing general statistics and monographs.
Volume 3. Report on the Productions of Agriculture embracing general statistics and monographs.
Volume 4. Report on the Agencies of Transportation in the United States including the statistics of railroads, steam navigation, canals, telegraphs, and telephones.
Volume 5. Report on Cotton Production in the United States; also embracing agriculture and physico-geographical descriptions of several cotton States and of California: Part I: Mississippi Valley and Southwestern States.
Volume 6. Report on Cotton Production in the United States; also embracing agricultural and physico-geographical descriptions of several cotton states and of California: Part II: Eastern Gulf, Atlantic, and Pacific States
Volume 7. Report on Valuation, Taxation, and Public Indebtedness of the United States
Volume 8. Newspaper and Periodical Press; Alaska: its population, industries, and resources; The seal islands of Alaska; Shipbuilding industry in the United States.
Volume 9. Report on the Forests of North America (Exclusive of Mexico). Also in Biosciences and Environmental Design Libraries
Volume 10. Production technology, and uses of petroleum and its products; The manufacture of coke; Building stones of the United States, and statistics of the quarry industry for 1880
Volume 11. Report on Mortality and Vital Statistics. Part I, Statistics of deaths by States, principal cities, etc...
Volume 12. Report on Mortality and Vital Statistics. Part II, Statistics of deaths by locality, cause, etc. and portfolio of 36 plants and 38 diagrams. Also in Public Health Library.
Volume 13. Statistics and Technology of the Precious Metals.
Volume 14. The United States Mining Laws and Regulations thereunder, and State and territorial mining laws, to which are appended local mining rules and regulations.
Volume 15. Report on the Mining Industries of the United States (exclusive of precious metals), with special investigation into the iron resources of the Republic and into cretaceous coals of the Northwest.
Volume 16. Reports on the Water Power of the United States. Part I, Water-power of the region tributary to Long Island Sound.
Volume 17. Reports on the Water Power of the United States. Part II, Water-power of the Northwest, Water-power of the Mississippi River and some of its tributaries, Water power of the region tributary to the Mississippi River on the west, below Dubuque, Iowa, Water-power of the Ohio River basin and Ohio State canals, Water0-supply of certain cities of the United States.
Volume 18. Report on the Social Statistics of Cities. Part I: The New England and Middle Atlantic States. Also in Main HA730.A1 A4 1890.
Volume 19. Report on the Social Statistics of Cities. Part II: The Southern and Western States Also in Main HA730.A1 A4 1890.
Volume 20. Report on the statistics of wages in manufacturing industries; with supplementary reports on the average retail prices of necessaries of life, and on trades societies, and strikes and lockouts.
Volume 21. Report on the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes of the population of the United States.
Volume 22. Report on power and machinery employed in manufactures embracing statistics of steam- and water-power used in the manufacture in iron and steel during census year ending May 31,1880. Also in NRLF Main GB701.T7.

HA201 1880 B7 Bulletins no.1-305 Also in NEWS MICROFILM 48399.

HA201 1880 C Compendium of the tenth census (June 1, 1880)

HA201 1880.Ca Compendium of the tenth census (June 1, 1880), v.1-2

HA201 1880.Cb Compendium of the tenth census (June 1, 1880), v. 1-2

Extra Census Bulletins

The area of the United States, the several states and territories, and their counties in Main GA59.U58 1881
Report on the cotton production of the state of Louisiana, with a discussion of the general agricultural features of the state. In Bancroft Library UARC 308x.H644.rc and Biological Science and Natural Resources SB249.H5.
Report on the manufacture of fire-arms and ammunition by Charles H. Fitch. Not in Library, available via CRL.
Statistics of life insurance. Not in UCB Library, at UCSD
Tables showing the cereal production of the United States ... by counties, as returned at the census of 1880. Not in UCB Library, at UCSD
Tables showing the cotton production of the United States, by counties,as returned at the census of 1880. Not in UCB Library.
Tables with annotations showing the system of courts of criminal jurisdiction in the United States. A preliminary study in criminal jurisprudence by Fred H. Wines. Not in UCB Library.

Forestry bulletin No. 1-25. In Bancroft Library fSD11.U45 no.1-12

Statistics of the manufactures of the cities of Baltimore, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Jersey City, Louisville, Milwaukee, Newark, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington, during the census year, June 1 1879 - May 31, 1880. Not in UCB Library, at UCSD.

1890 11th census [Top]

HA201 1890 B1 v.1-15 [Census reports] Eleventh census: 1890

Volume 1. Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census.
Volume 2. Report on the Insane, Feeble-minded, Deaf and Dumb, and Blind in the United States.
Volume 3. Report on Crime, Pauperism, and Benevolence in the United States
Volume 4: Report on Vital and Social Statistics in the United States
Volume 5. Reports on the statistics of agriculture in the United States, agriculture by irrigation in the western part of the United States, and statistics of fisheries in the United States.
Volume 6. Report on Manufacturing Industries in the United States...
Volume 7. Report on Mineral Industries in the United States
Volume 8. Report on the Population and Resources of Alaska. Also in Bancroft Library.
Volume 9. Report on Statistics of Churches in the United States in the United States
Volume 10. Report on Indians Taxed and Indians Not Taxed in the United States (except Alaska).
Volume 11. Report on Insurance Business in the United States
Volume 12. Report on Real Estate Mortgages in the United States
Volume 13. Report on Farms and Homes: Proprietorship and Indebtedness in the United States
Volume 14. Report on Transportation Business in the United States
Volume 15. Report on Wealth, Debt, and Taxation

HA201 1890.C Compendium of the eleventh census, v.1-3

HA201 1890 D1 Abstract of the eleventh census: 1890.

HA201 1890 D2 Abstract of the eleventh census. (2nd edition, revised and enlarged)

Statistical atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census. In Main ffHA201 1890.E

Extra Census Bulletins

The five civilized tribes in Indian territory: The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations. In Bancroft E78.I5 U5 and E78.I5 U25 Main.
Indians. Eastern bank of Cherokees of North Carolina. In Main E99.C5.U6. Indians. The Six Nations of New York. Cayugas, Mohawks (Saint Regis), Oneidas, Onondagas, Senecas, Tuscaroras. In Main E99.I7.U6 and E99.I7.S55 1995.
Moqui Pueblo Indians of Arizona and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. In Bancroft and Anthropology Libraries E99.H7U5.

1900 12th census [Top]

HA201 1900.A1 Bulletins of the twelfth census of the United States, v. 1-247 (1900-02). Also in Biological Science and Natural Resources SD435.U3.A28 v. 203.

A discussion of the vital statistics of the Twelfth Census., Bulletin 15 in Public Health Library HB3505 .A25.

HA201 1900 B1 Census reports : twelfth census of the United States, taken in the year 1900. Also in Main and Public Health.

Volumes 1-2. Population.
Volumes 3-4. Vital statistics
Volumes 5-6. Agriculture
Volumes 7-10. Manufactures

HA201 1900.D1 Abstract of the twelfth census of the United States, 1900 3d ed.

HA201 1900.D2 Abstract of the twelfth census of the United States 1900.

HA201 1900.E Statistical atlas Prepared under the supervision of Henry Gannett, geographer of the twelfth census. Also in Bancroft Library.

The blind and the deaf 1900 in Main HA202.A3 B6.

Employees and wages in Main HA202.A3 E7.

Manufactures. Textiles. in Main HA202.A3 T6 1900.

Mines and quarries, 1902 in Main HA202.A3 .M5 1902.

Occupations at the twelfth census in Main HA202.A3 O4.

Statistics of women at work, based on unpublished information derived from the schedules of the Twelfth census : 1900 in Main HA202.A3 W7 1900.

Supplementary analysis and derivative tables. Twelfth census of the United States in Main and Public Health HA202.A3 Z3.

Wealth, debt, and taxation in Main HA202.A3.W4 1903.

1910 13th census [Top]

HA201 1910 Index to occupations : Population division.

HA201 1910 B1 Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1910, vol. 1-11. Also in Main Stacks HA201 1910 .B1 Set 2 v.1-4.

HA201 1910.B2 Population by counties and minor civil divisions, 1910, 1900, 1890.

HA201 1910.B3 Thirteenth census of the United States taken in the year 1910 : statistics [by states], v. 1-9

HA201 1910.D2 Thirteenth census of the United States taken in the year 1910. Also in NRLF #C 2 651 168.

HA201 1910.D22 Abstract of the census. Thirteenth census of the United States taken in the year 1910 : abstract of the census, statistics of population, agriculture, manufactures, and mining for the United States, the states, and principal cities with supplement for Missouri containing statistics for the state, counties, cities, and other divisions. Also in Bancroft and Environmental Design NRLF #C 2 651 169.

HA201 1910.D25 Thirteenth census of the United States taken in the year 1910: Abstract of the census. Statistics of population, agriculture, manufactures and mining for the United States, the states, and principal cities, with supplement for Michigan containing statistics for the state, counties, cities, and other divisions.

HA201 1910.D3 Abstract of the census of manufactures, 1914.

HA201 1910.Z4 Index to occupations, alphabetical and classified.

Abstract of special bulletins, wealth, debt, and taxation. 1913. in Main HA202.A3 W3 v.1.

Assessed valuation of property and amounts and rates of levy: 1860-1912
National and state indebtedness and funds and investment: 1870-1913
County and municipal indebtedness: 1913, 1902, and 1890 and sinking fund assets: 1913
Taxation and revenue systems of state and local governments
National and state revenues and expenditures: 1913 and 1903 and public properties of state: 1913
County revenues, expenditures, and public properties: 1913.

Census of electrical industries, 1917 : telephones in Main HA202.A3 T4 1917.

Estimated valuation of national wealth 1850-1912 in Main HA202.A3 W45.

Manufactures, 1909: statistics for the manufacture of bicycles, motorcycles, and parts in News/Micro MICROFILM 20395 v.53.

Paupers in almshouses 1910 in Main HA202.A3 P3 1910.

Statistical atlas of the United States. Prepared under the supervision of Charles S. Sloane, geographer of the census in Main HA205 .A4 1914.

Thirteenth census of the United States taken in the year 1910. Statistics for California. Containing statistics of population, agriculture, manufactures, and mining for the state, counties, cities, and other divisions. Reprint of the Supplement for California published in connection with the Abstract of the census in Main HA262 .A4 1910.

1920 14th census [Top]

HA201 1920 B1 Fourteenth census of the United States taken in the year 1920 ... [Reports], v.1-11. Also in Earth Sciences Library, v.1, 7-11.

Volume I Number and distribution of inhabitants.
Volume II. General report and analytical tables.
Volume III. Composition and characteristics of the population by states.
Volume IV. Occupations.
Volume V-VI. Agriculture.
VolumeVI. Reports for states, with statistics for counties and a summary for the United States and the north, south and west.
Volume VII. Irrigation and drainage. General report and analytical tables, and reports for states, with statistics for counties.
Volume VIII-X. Manufactures.
Volume VIII. General report and analytical tables.
Volume IX. Reports for states, with statistics for principal cities.
Volume X. Reports for selected industries.
Volume XI. Mines and quarries. General report and analytical tables and reports for states and selected industries.

HA201 1920.A2 Census monographs I-XI.

HA201 1920.D1 Abstract of the fourteenth census of the United States, 1920. Also in Public Health NRLF #B 3 065 837.

HA201 1920.D3 Abstract of the census of manufactures, 1919.

HA201 1920.S9 Supervisors' districts. Fourteenth census, 1920.

HA201 1920.Z4 Alphabetical index to occupations.

HA201 1920.Z41 Classified index to occupations.

HA201 1920.Z45 Fourteenth census of the United States. Population. Index to place of birth and parent nativity.

Children in gainful occupations at the fourteenth census of the United States in Main HD6250.U6 .A18 1920. Fourteenth census: agriculture. Bulletin. Farm vegetables. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, miscellaneous vegetables raised for sale, and value of farm garden products. 1919. Prepared under the supervision of William Lane Austin, chief statistician for agriculture in Main HD1753 1919.

Fourteenth census of the United States. State compendium. California. Statistics of population, occupations, agriculture, irrigation, drainage, counties, and cities in Main HA262 .A4 1920.

Statistical atlas of the United States in Main HA205 .A4 1925

1930 15th census [Top]

HA201 1930.A5 Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Age of the foreign-born white pop. by country of birth

HA201 1930 B1 Fifteenth census of the United States : 1930 : [Reports], v.1-6; 8-18. Also in Biological Science and Natural Resources v.10-11; 12:3-13 and NRLF for Public Health and Environmental Design Libraries.

Volume 1. Population. Number and distribution of inhabitants.
Volume 2. Population. General report. Statistics by subjects.
Volume 3. Population. Reports by states:
Volume 4. Population. Occupations, by States.
Volume 5. General report on occupations.
Volume 6. Families.
Volume 8. Unemployment returns by classes for states, counties and cities.
Volume 9. General report on unemployment.
Volume 10. Agriculture: Farm acreage and farm values by townships or other minor civil divisions.
Volume 11. Agriculture: Reports by states, with statistics for counties, and a summary for the U.S.
Volume 12. Agriculture: Type of farm. Reports by States, with statistics for counties and a summary for the United States.
Volume 13. Agriculture: General report, statistics by subjects.
Volume 14-16. Manufactures: 1929.
- Volume 14. General report: Statistics by subjects.
- Volume 15. Reports by industries.
- Volume 16. Reports by states: statistics for industrial areas, counties, and cities.
Volume 17-18. Distribution, v.1-3.
- Volume 17. Retail distribution.
- Volume 18. Wholesale distribution.

HA201 1930.B3agc Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Agriculture. California ..., v.1-6.

HA201 1930.B3agt Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Agriculture. Type of farm; summary for the United States, 1929 and 1930.

HA201 1930.B3co Fifteenth census of the United States, 1930. Construction industry : reports by states with statistics for counties and cities of 100,000 population and over, a summary for the United States, and a study of the location and agencies of the construction industry.

HA201 1930.B3d Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Drainage of agricultural lands. Reports by states with statistics for counties, a summary for the United States, and a synopsis of drainage laws.

HA201 1930.B3h Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Horticulture. Statistics for the United States and for states, 1929 and 1930.

HA201 1930.B3i Fifteenth census of the United States:1930 : Irrigation of agricultural lands ; general reports and analytical tables, reports by states for counties, and a summary for the United States.

HA201 1930.B3m Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Metropolitan districts. Population and area.

HA201 1930.B3mi Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. General report and reports for states and for industries. Mines and quarries.

HA201 1930.B3pf Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Population. Special report on foreign-born white families by country of birth of head. With an appendix giving statistics for Mexican, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese families

HA201 1930.B3t Fifteenth census of the United States 1930. Outlying territories and possessions. Number and distribution of inhabitants. Composition and characteristics of the population. Occupations, Unemployment and Agriculture.

HA201 1930.D1 Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Abstract of the fifteenth census of the United States.

HA201 1930.H5 Fifteenth census of the United States. Census of hotels, 1930.

HA201 1930.Z4 Alphabetical index of occupations. Fifteenth census of the United States.

HA201 1930.Z41 Classified index of occupations. Fifteenth census of the United States.

HA201 1930.Z43 Index of data tabulated from the 1930 census of population including unemployment.

Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. The Indian population of the United States and Alaska. In Main E98.C3 U5 1930.

Other Historical Census Resources [Top]

Primary Documentation, User Guides, and History
Historical Census Browser (1790 to 1960) via University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
Statistical Abstract of the United States (1878 to present): National Data Book containing a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States as well as selected international data.