U.S. Census Office, Population of the United States Decennially from 1790 to 1850 (1853)

This is a snapshot of an original table from the 1853 U.S. Census Office report following the 1850 census. The table shows data from every decennial Census between 1790 and 1850. The table is also included in another section of the website, where we combined data from this table with data from a table in an 1864 report on the 1860 census to create a graph showing changes in population from 1790 to 1860. The original tables, a recreated table, and the graph can be viewed in these spreadsheets. We wanted to illustrate how dramatically the population of the United States increased during this period of history. Because the 1864 report did not show population changes over time, we had to compile the data from the two reports.