1980 United States Census
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The Twentieth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 226,545,805, an increase of 11.4 percent over the 203,184,772 persons enumerated during the 1970 Census.[1]
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[edit] Census questions
The 1980 census collected the following information:[2]
- address
- name
- household relationship
- sex
- race
- age
- marital status
- whether of Spanish/Hispanic origin or descent
It was the first census not to ask for the name of the "head of household."[3]
[edit] State rankings
Rank | State | Population |
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1 | California | 23,669,000 |
2 | New York | 17,557,000 |
3 | Texas | 14,228,000 |
4 | Pennsylvania | 11,867,000 |
5 | Illinois | 11,419,000 |
6 | Ohio | 10,797,000 |
7 | Florida | 9,739,000 |
8 | Michigan | 9,259,000 |
9 | New Jersey | 7,364,000 |
10 | North Carolina | 5,874,000 |
11 | Massachusetts | 5,737,000 |
12 | Indiana | 5,491,000 |
13 | Georgia | 5,464,000 |
14 | Virginia | 5,346,000 |
15 | Missouri | 4,917,000 |
16 | Wisconsin | 4,706,000 |
17 | Tennessee | 4,591,000 |
18 | Maryland | 4,216,000 |
19 | Louisiana | 4,203,000 |
20 | Washington | 4,130,000 |
21 | Minnesota | 4,077,000 |
22 | Alabama | 3,891,000 |
23 | Kentucky | 3,661,000 |
24 | South Carolina | 3,119,000 |
25 | Connecticut | 3,107,000 |
26 | Oklahoma | 3,026,000 |
27 | Iowa | 2,914,000 |
28 | Colorado | 2,890,000 |
29 | Arizona | 2,718,000 |
30 | Oregon | 2,632,000 |
31 | Mississippi | 2,520,000 |
32 | Kansas | 2,363,000 |
33 | Arkansas | 2,285,000 |
34 | West Virginia | 1,950,000 |
35 | Nebraska | 1,570,000 |
36 | Utah | 1,461,000 |
37 | New Mexico | 1,299,000 |
38 | Maine | 1,125,000 |
39 | Hawaii | 985,000 |
40 | Rhode Island | 948,000 |
41 | Idaho | 945,000 |
42 | New Hampshire | 921,000 |
43 | Nevada | 799,000 |
44 | Montana | 787,000 |
45 | South Dakota | 690,000 |
46 | North Dakota | 654,000 |
x | District of Columbia | 638,000 |
47 | Delaware | 596,000 |
48 | Vermont | 512,000 |
49 | Wyoming | 471,000 |
50 | Alaska | 400,000 |
Between the 1980 census and the 1990 census, the United States' population increased by approximately 22,164,837 or 9.8%. So the 1990 Census is about 244,664,694 people.
[edit] References
- ^ "Population and Area (Historical Censuses)". United States Census Bureau. http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/1991-02.pdf.
- ^ "Library Bibliography Bulletin 88, New York State Census Records, 1790-1925". New York State Library. October 1981. p. 46 (p. 52 of PDF). http://purl.org/net/nysl/nysdocs/9643270.
- ^ Frum, David (2000). How We Got Here: The '70s. New York, New York: Basic Books. p. 246. ISBN 0465041957.
[edit] External links
- Historic US Census data
- 1981 U.S Census Report Contains 1980 Census results
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