1800 United States Census

The United States Census of 1800 was the second Census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 4, 1800.

It showed that 5,308,483 people were living in the United States, of which 893,602 were slaves. The 1800 Census included the new District of Columbia. The census for the following states were lost: Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia.^[how?]

1 Questions
2 Data availability
3 Data
4 References
5 External links

Questions [edit]

The 1800 census asks the following information in columns, left to right:^[1]

Column	Title
1	Name of the head of family
2	Number of free white males under age 10
3	Number of free white males age 10–16
4	Number of free white males age 16–26
5	Number of free white males age 26–45
6	Number of free white males over age 45
7	Number of free white females under age 10
8	Number of free white females age 10–16
9	Number of free white females age 16–26
10	Number of free white females age 26–45
11	Number of free white females over age 45
12	Number of all other free persons
13	Number of slaves

This census is one of the several for which some of the original data are no longer available. Original census returns for Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia were lost over the years.^[2]

Data availability [edit]

No microdata from the 1800 population census are available, but aggregate data for small areas, together with compatible cartographic boundary files, can be downloaded from the National Historical Geographic Information System.

Data [edit]

District	Free white males under age 10	Free white males age 10–16	Free white males age 16–26	Free white males age 26–45	Free white males over age 45	Free white females under age 10	Free white females age 10–16	Free white females age 16–26	Free white females age 26–45	Free white females over age 45	All other free persons	Slaves	Total
New Hampshire	30,694	14,881	16,379	17,589	11,715	29,871	14,193	17,153	18,381	12,142	852	8	183,858
Massachusetts	63,646	32,507	37,905	39,729	31,348	60,920	30,674	40,491	43,833	35,340	6,452	None	422,845
Maine	27,970	12,305	12,900	15,318	8,339	26,899	11,338	13,295	14,496	8,041	818	None	151,719
Connecticut	37,946	19,408	21,683	23,180	18,976	35,736	18,218	23,561	25,186	20,827	5,330	951	251,002
Vermont	29,420	12,046	13,242	16,544	8,076	28,272	11,366	12,606	15,287	7,049	557	None	154,465
Rhode Island	9,945	5,352	5,889	5,785	4,887	9,524	5,026	6,463	6,919	5,648	3,304	380	69,122
New York (excluding Duchess, Ulster, Orange counties)	83,161	36,953	40,045	52,454	25,497	79,154	32,822	39,086	47,710	23,161	8,573	15,602	484,065
New York (Duchess, Ulster, Orange counties)	16,936	7,320	9,230	9,140	6,358	16,319	6,649	9,030	8,701	5,490	1,801	5,011	101,985
New Jersey	33,900	15,859	16,301	19,956	12,629	32,622	14,827	17,018	19,533	11,600	4,402	12,422	211,149
Pennsylvania (eastern district)	52,767	24,438	29,393	33,864	20,824	51,176	23,427	29,879	30,892	19,329	11,253	557	327,979
Pennsylvania (western district)	50,459	21,623	24,869	25,469	17,761	48,448	20,362	24,095	22,954	14,066	3,311	1,149	274,566
Delaware	8,250	4,437	5,121	5,012	2,213	7,628	4,277	5,543	4,981	2,390	8,268	6,153	64,273
Maryland (including Washington County in the District of Columbia^a[›], but excluding parts of Baltimore County)	33,520	16,581	20,560	22,169	12,617	32,463	15,718	21,506	20,363	11,240	18,646	102,465	317,348
Maryland (additional return for Baltimore County)	567	226	318	343	249	517	222	375	318	199	41	847	4,276
Virginia (eastern district)	57,837	25,998	32,444	34,588	19,087	54,597	25,469	34,807	32,641	18,821	13,194	322,199	676,682
Virginia (western district)	34,601	14,502	16,264	15,674	11,134	32,726	13,366	15,923	3,632	15,169	1,930	23,597	203,518
Virginia (Alexandria and part of Fairfax County in the District of Columbia^a[›])	889	320	483	557	221	670	313	479	473	189	383	1,172	5,949
North Carolina	63,118	27,073	31,560	31,209	18,688	59,074	25,874	32,989	30,665	17,514	7,043	133,296	478,103
South Carolina	37,411	16,156	17,761	19,344	10,244	34,664	15,857	18,145	17,236	9,437	3,185	146,151	345,591
Georgia	19,841	8,469	9,787	10,914	4,957	18,407	7,914	9,243	8,835	3,894	1,919	59,699	162,686
Kentucky	37,274	14,045	15,705	17,699	9,238	34,949	13,433	15,524	14,934	7,075	741	40,343	220,959
Northwest Territory	9,362	3,647	4,636	4,833	1,955	8,644	3,353	3,861	3,342	1,395	337	None	45,365
Indiana Territory	854	347	466	645	262	791	280	424	393	115	163	135	5,641^b[›]
Mississippi Territory	999	356	482	780	290	953	376	352	462	165	182	3,489	8,850

District	Free white males under age 10	Free white males age 10–16	Free white males age 16–26	Free white males age 26–45	Free white males over age 45	Free white females under age 10	Free white females age 10–16	Free white females age 16–26	Free white females age 26–45	Free white females over age 45	All other free persons	Slaves	Total
Uncorrected Total	741,367	334,849	383,423	422,795	257,526	705,024	315,354	391,848	392,167	250,296	102,685	875,626	5,172,312

Tennessee^c[›]	19,227	7,194	8,282	8,352	4,125	18,450	7,042	8,554	6,992	3,491	309	13,584	105,602
Maryland corrected^d[›]	36,751	17,743	21,929	23,553	13,712	34,703	16,787	22,915	21,725	12,180	19,987	107,707	349,692
Corrected Total	763,288	142,979	392,765	432,979	262,497	725,197	323,243	401,436	400,203	254,524	104,294	893,605	5,305,982

^ a: At the time of the 1800 Census, the territory donated to form the District of Columbia was still being administered by the states of Maryland and Virginia. The state of Maryland included the population of the District under its control within its own return. The population of the District of Columbia within Maryland was 8,144 persons, including 5,672 whites, 400 free blacks, and 2,472 enslaved persons.^[3]

^ b: Persons 766 added to the particular items of this return.

^ c: This return has been received since the communication of the above Aggregate to Congress.

^ d: This return has also been since received, and is stated by the Marshal to be more correct than the first.^[4]

References [edit]

^ "1800 Census Questions". Archived from the original on April 27, 2010. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
^ Dollarhide, William (2001). The Census Book: A Genealogists Guide to Federal Census Facts, Schedules and Indexes. North Salt Lake, Utah: HeritageQuest. p. 8. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
^ "District of Columbia – Race and Hispanic Origin: 1800 to 1990". U.S. Census Bureau. September 13, 2002. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
^ "Enumeration of Persons in the several districts of The United States". 1800. p. 3. Archived from the original on June 11, 2010. Retrieved May 10, 2010.

External links [edit]

Historic US Census data
1800 Census: 1800 United States Census for Genealogy & Family History Research

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