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The Nineteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 203,302,031, an increase of 13.4 percent over the 179,323,175 persons enumerated during the 1960 Census.

[edit] State Rankings

1970 U.S. State Population Rankings

Rank	State	Population
1	California	19,953,000
2	New York	18,237,000
3	Pennsylvania	11,794,000
4	Texas	11,197,000
5	Illinois	11,114,000
6	Ohio	10,652,000
7	Michigan	8,875,000
8	New Jersey	7,168,000
9	Florida	6,789,000
10	Massachusetts	5,689,000
11	Indiana	5,194,000
12	North Carolina	5,082,000
13	Missouri	4,677,000
14	Virginia	4,648,000
15	Georgia	4,590,000
16	Wisconsin	4,418,000
17	Tennessee	3,924,000
18	Maryland	3,922,000
19	Minnesota	3,805,000
20	Louisiana	3,641,000
21	Alabama	3,444,000
22	Washington	3,409,000
23	Kentucky	3,219,000
24	Connecticut	3,032,000
25	Iowa	2,825,000
26	South Carolina	2,591,000
27	Oklahoma	2,559,000
28	Kansas	2,247,000
29	Mississippi	2,217,000
30	Colorado	2,207,000
31	Oregon	2,091,000
32	Arkansas	1,923,000
33	Arizona	1,771,000
34	West Virginia	1,744,000
35	Nebraska	1,483,000
36	Utah	1,059,000
37	New Mexico	1,016,000
38	Maine	992,000
39	Rhode Island	947,000
40	Hawaii	789,000
41	New Hampshire	788,000
x	District of Columbia	757,000
42	Idaho	713,000
43	Montana	694,000
44	South Dakota	666,000
45	North Dakota	618,000
46	Delaware	548,000
47	Nevada	489,000
48	Vermont	444,000
49	Wyoming	332,000
50	Alaska	300,000

[edit] External links

• Historic US Census data
• 1971 U.S Census Report Contains 1970 Census results

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