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

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



• 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.

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:

• Find out more about the data included in this site.
• Find links to further historical census resources.