1920 United States Census

The Fourteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau one month from January 5, 1920, determined the resident population of the United States to be 106,021,537, an increase of 15.0 percent over the 92,228,496 persons enumerated during the 1910 Census.

Despite the constitutional requirement that House seats be reapportioned to the states respective of their population every ten years according to the census, House seats were not reapportioned after this census.

Census questions

The 1920 census collected the following information:

address
name
relationship to head of family
sex
race
age
marital status
if foreign born, year of immigration to the U.S., whether naturalized and, if so, year of naturalization
school attendance
literacy
birthplace of person and parents
if foreign-born, the mother tongue
ability to speak English
occupation, industry, and class of worker
whether home owned or rented, and, if owned, whether free or mortgaged

Full documentation for the 1920 census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.

Data availability

Microdata from the 1920 census are freely available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, can be downloaded from the National Historical Geographic Information System.

Translation of "1920 United States Census"

Arabic: تعداد الولايات المتحدة 1920, Romanian: Recensământul Statelor Unite ale Americii din 1920.