Historical Census Browser
What can you do on this site?
- Examine state and county topics for individual census
years.
- examine multiple topics within a census year
- produce tables of data by state or county
- sort data by selected categories
- create ratios between any two data categories
- Examine state and county topics over time.
- examine a topic across multiple census years
- produce tables of data by state or county
Choose a category to begin examining data: General Population Ethnicity/Race/Place of Birth Education & Literacy Agriculture Economy/Manufacturing/Employment Slave Population
- Generate maps of selected data Click on "Map It!" at the top of data columns to view the data in the form of an interactive map.
| Choose a census year to begin examining data: | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1790 | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 |
| 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 |
What you cannot do on this site:
- Find Information about individuals
- Find information for areas below the county level (e.g. cities, census tracts)
- Download data. The site is not intended as a tool for downloading data for further research or more involved manipulation. Those who require this level of analysis should download the original data from ICPSR.
Further resources:
The data and terminology presented in the Historical Census Browser are drawn directly from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing.
To Cite This Collection (APA Style)
(2004). Historical Census Browser. Retrieved [Date you accessed source], from the University of Virginia, Geospatial and Statistical Data Center: http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/
stats/histcensus/index.html.