This is a list of U.S. states by historical population, as enumerated every decade by the United States Census

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As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state.

Table 1: 1790–1860

Name	Admitted	1790	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860
Alabama Alabama Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...	1819		1,250	9,046	127,901	309,527	590,756	771,623	964,201
Alaska Alaska Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...	1959
Arizona Arizona Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...	1912
Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...	1836			1,062	14,273	30,388	97,574	209,897	435,450
California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...	1850							92,597	379,994
Colorado Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...	1876								34,277
Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...	1788	237,946	251,002	262,042	275,202	297,675	309,978	370,792	460,147
Delaware Delaware Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...	1787	59,096	64,273	72,674	72,749	76,748	78,085	91,532	112,216
District of Columbia Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....			8,144	15,471	23,336	30,261	33,745	51,687	75,080
Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...	1845					34,730	54,477	87,445	140,424
Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...	1788	82,548	162,686	251,407	340,989	516,823	691,392	906,185	1,057,286
Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...	1959
Idaho Idaho Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....	1890
Illinois Illinois Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...	1818		2,458	12,282	55,211	157,445	476,183	851,470	1,711,951
Indiana Indiana Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...	1816		2,632	24,520	147,178	343,031	685,866	988,416	1,350,428
Iowa Iowa Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...	1846						43,112	192,214	674,913
Kansas Kansas Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...	1861								107,206
Kentucky Kentucky The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...	1792	73,677	220,959	406,511	564,317	687,917	779,828	982,405	1,155,684
Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...	1812			76,556	153,407	215,739	352,411	517,762	708,002
Maine Maine Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...	1820	96,540	151,719	228,705	298,335	399,455	501,793	583,169	628,279
Maryland Maryland Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...	1788	319,728	341 548	380,546	407,350	447,040	470,019	583,034	687,049
Massachusetts Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...	1788	378,787	422,845	472,040	523,287	610,408	737,699	994,514	1,231,066
Michigan Michigan Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....	1837		3,757	4,762	7,452	28,004	212,267	397,654	749,113
Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...	1858							6,077	172,023
Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...	1817		7,600	31,306	75,448	136,621	375,651	606,526	791,305
Missouri Missouri Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...	1821			19,783	66,586	140,455	383,702	682,044	1,182,012
Montana Montana Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...	1889
Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....	1867								28,841
Nevada Nevada Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...	1864								6,857
New Hampshire New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...	1788	141,885	183,858	214,360	244,161	269,328	284,574	317,976	326,073
New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...	1787	184,139	211,149	245,555	277,575	320,823	373,306	489,555	672,035
New Mexico New Mexico New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...	1912							61,547	87,034
New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...	1788	340,120	586,050	959,049	1,372,812	1,918,608	2,428,921	3,097,394	3,880,735
North Carolina North Carolina North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...	1789	393,751	478,103	556,526	638,829	737,987	753,419	869,039	992,622
North Dakota North Dakota North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....	1889
Ohio Ohio Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...	1803		42,159	230,760	581,434	937,903	1,519,467	1,980,329	2,339,511
Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...	1907
Oregon Oregon Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...	1859							12,093	52,465
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...	1787	434,373	602,545	810,091	1,049,458	1,348,233	1,724,033	2,311,786	2,906,215
Rhode Island Rhode Island The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...	1790	68,825	69,122	76,931	83,059	97,199	108,830	147,545	174,620
South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...	1788	249,073	345,591	415,115	502,741	581,185	594,398	668,507	703,708
South Dakota South Dakota South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...	1889								4,837
Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...	1796	35,691	105,602	261,727	422,813	681,904	829,210	1,002,717	1,109,801
Texas Texas Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...	1845							212,592	604,215
Utah Utah Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...	1896							11,380	40,273
Vermont Vermont Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...	1791	85,425	154,465	217,713	235,764	280,652	291,948	314,120	315,098
Virginia Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...	1788	691,737	807,557	877,683	938,261	1,044,054	1,025,227	1,119,348	1,219,630
Washington	1889							1,201	11,594
West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...	1863	55,873	78,592	105,469	136,808	176,924	224,537	302,313	376,688
Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...	1848				1,444	3,635	30,945	305,391	775,881
Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...	1890
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...		3,929,214	5,308,483	7,239,881	9,638,453	12,860,702	17,063,353	23,191,876	31,443,321

Table 2: 1870–1950

Name	1870	1880	1890	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950
Alabama | 996,992 | 1,262,505 | 1,513,017 | 1,828,697 | 2,138,093 | 2,348,174 | 2,646,248 | 2,832,961 | 3,061,743
Alaska			33,426	32,052	64,356	55,036	59,278	72,524	128,643
Arizona	9,658	40,440	88,243	122,931	204,354 | 334,162 | 435,573 | 499,261 | 749,587
Arkansas | 484,471 | 802,525 | 1,128,211 | 1,311,564 | 1,574,449 | 1,752,204 | 1,854,482 | 1,949,387 | 1,909,511
California | 560,247 | 864,694 | 1,213,398 | 1,485,053 | 2,377,549 | 3,426,861 | 5,677,251 | 6,907,387 | 10,586,223
|style="backg>ound-color:#D8D8D8" | 39,864 | 194,327 | 413,249 | 539,700 | 799,024 | 939,629 | 1,035,791 | 1,123,296 | 1,325,089
Connecticut | 537,454 | 622,700 | 746,258 | 908,420 | 1,114,756 | 1,380,631 | 1,606,903 | 1,709,242 | 2,007,280
Delaware | 125,015 | 146,608 | 168,493 | 184,735 | 202,322 | 223,003 | 238,380 | 266,505 | 318,085
District of Columbia	131,700	177,624	230,392	278,718	331,069	437,571	486,869	663,091	802,178
Florida | 187,748 | 269,493 | 391,422 | 528,542 | 752,619 | 968,470 | 1,468,211 | 1,897,414 | 2,771,305
Georgia | 1,184,109 | 1,542,180 | 1,837,353 | 2,216,331 | 2,609,121 | 2,895,832 | 2,908,506 | 3,123,723 | 3,444,578
Hawaii				154,001	191,909	255,912	368,336	423,330	499,794
Idaho	14,999	32,610 | 88,548 | 161,772 | 325,594 | 431,866 | 445,032 | 524,873 | 588,637
Illinois | 2,539,891 | 3,077,871 | 3,826,351 | 4,821,550 | 5,638,591 | 6,485,280 | 7,630,654 | 7,897,241 | 8,712,176
Indiana | 1,680,637 | 1,978,301 | 2,192,404 | 2,516,462 | 2,700,876 | 2,930,390 | 3,238,503 | 3,427,796 | 3,934,224
Iowa | 1,194,020 | 1,624,615 | 1,912,297 | 2,231,853 | 2,224,771 | 2,404,021 | 2,470,939 | 2,538,268 | 2,621,073
Kansas | 364,399 | 996,096 | 1,428,108 | 1,470,495 | 1,690,949 | 1,769,257 | 1,880,999 | 1,801,028 | 1,905,299
Kentucky | 1,321,011 | 1,648,690 | 1,858,635 | 2,147,174 | 2,289,905 | 2,416,630 | 2,614,589 | 2,845,627 | 2,944,806
Louisiana | 726,915 | 939,946 | 1,118,587 | 1,381,625 | 1,656,388 | 1,798,509 | 2,101,593 | 2,363,880 | 2,683,516
Maine | 626,915 | 648,936 | 661,086 | 694,466 | 742,371 | 768,014 | 797,423 | 847,226 | 913,774
Maryland | 780,894 | 934,943 | 1,042,390 | 1,188,044 | 1,295,346 | 1,449,661 | 1,631,526 | 1,821,244 | 2,343,001
Massachusetts | 1,457,351 | 1,783,085 | 2,238,943 | 2,805,346 | 3,366,416 | 3,852,356 | 4,249,614 | 4,316,721 | 4,690,514
Michigan | 1,184,059 | 1,636,937 | 2,093,889 | 2,420,982 | 2,810,173 | 3,668,412 | 4,842,325 | 5,256,106 | 6,371,766
Minnesota | 439,706 | 780,773 | 1,310,283 | 1,751,394 | 2,075,708 | 2,387,125 | 2,563,953 | 2,792,300 | 2,982,483
Mississippi | 827,922 | 1,131,597 | 1,289,600 | 1,551,270 | 1,797,114 | 1,790,618 | 2,009,821 | 2,183,796 | 2,178,914
Missouri | 1,721,295 | 2,168,380 | 2,679,184 | 3,106,665 | 3,293,335 | 3,404,055 | 3,629,367 | 3,784,664 | 3,954,653
|style="backgr>und-color:#D8D8D8" | 20,595 |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" | 39,159 | 142,924 | 243,329 | 376,053 | 548,889 | 537,606 | 559,456 | 591,024
Nebraska | 122,993 | 452,402 | 1,062,656 | 1,066,300 | 1,192,214 | 1,296,372 | 1,377,963 | 1,315,834 | 1,325,510
Nevada | 42,491 | 62,266 | 47,355 | 42,335 | 81,875 | 77,407 | 91,058 | 110,247 | 160,083
New Hampshire | 318,300 | 346,991 | 376,530 | 411,588 | 430,572 | 443,083 | 465,293 | 491,524 | 533,242
New Jersey | 906,096 | 1,131,116 | 1,444,933 | 1,883,669 | 2,537,167 | 3,155,900 | 4,041,334 | 4,160,165 | 4,835,329
New Mexico	91,874	119,565	160,282	195,310	327,301 | 360,350 | 423,317 | 531,818 | 681,187
New York | 4,382,759 | 5,082,871 | 6,003,174 | 7,268,894 | 9,113,614 | 10,385,227 | 12,588,066 | 13,479,142 | 14,830,192
North Carolina | 1,071,361 | 1,399,750 | 1,617,947 | 1,893,810 | 2,206,287 | 2,559,123 | 3,170,276 | 3,571,623 | 4,061,929
|style="b>ckground-color:#D8D8D8" | 2,405 |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" | 36,909 | 190,983 | 319,146 | 577,056 | 646,872 | 680,845 | 641,935 | 619,636
Ohio | 2,665,260 | 3,198,062 | 3,672,316 | 4,157,545 | 4,767,121 | 5,759,394 | 6,646,697 | 6,907,612 | 7,946,627
|style="backg>ound-color:#D8D8D8" |   |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" |   |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" | 258,657 |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" | 790,391 | 1,657,155 | 2,028,283 | 2,396,040 | 2,336,434 | 2,233,351
Oregon | 90,923 | 174,768 | 317,704 | 413,536 | 672,765 | 783,389 | 953,786 | 1,089,684 | 1,521,341
Pennsylvania | 3,521,951 | 4,282,891 | 5,258,014 | 6,302,115 | 7,665,111 | 8,720,017 | 9,631,350 | 9,900,180 | 10,498,012
Rhode Island | 217,353 | 276,531 | 345,506 | 428,556 | 542,610 | 604,397 | 687,497 | 713,346 | 791,896
South Carolina | 705,606 | 995,577 | 1,151,149 | 1,340,316 | 1,515,400 | 1,683,724 | 1,738,765 | 1,899,804 | 2,117,027
|style="b>ckground-color:#D8D8D8" | 11,776 |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" | 98,268 | 348,600 | 401,570 | 583,888 | 636,547 | 692,849 | 642,961 | 652,740
Tennessee | 1,258,520 | 1,542,359 | 1,767,518 | 2,020,616 | 2,184,789 | 2,337,885 | 2,616,556 | 2,915,841 | 3,291,718
Texas | 818,579 | 1,591,749 | 2,235,523 | 3,048,710 | 3,896,542 | 4,663,228 | 5,824,715 | 6,414,824 | 7,711,194
|style="backgroun>-color:#D8D8D8" | 86,336 |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" | 143,963 |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" | 210,779 | 276,749 | 373,351 | 449,396 | 507,847 | 550,310 | 688,862
Vermont | 330,551 | 332,286 | 332,422 | 343,641 | 355,956 | 352,428 | 359,611 | 359,231 | 377,747
Virginia | 1,225,163 | 1,512,565 | 1,655,980 | 1,854,184 | 2,061,612 | 2,309,187 | 2,421,851 | 2,677,773 | 3,318,680
|style="bac>ground-color:#D8D8D8" | 23,955 |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" | 75,116 | 357,232 | 518,103 | 1,141,990 | 1,356,621 | 1,563,396 | 1,736,191 | 2,378,963
West Virginia | 442,014 | 618,457 | 762,794 | 958,800 | 1,221,119 | 1,463,701 | 1,729,205 | 1,901,974 | 2,005,552
Wisconsin | 1,054,670 | 1,315,497 | 1,693,330 | 2,069,042 | 2,333,860 | 2,632,067 | 2,939,006 | 3,137,587 | 3,434,575
|style="backgr>und-color:#D8D8D8" | 9,118 |style="background-color:#D8D8D8" | 20,789 | 60,705 | 92,531 | 145,965 | 194,402 | 225,565 | 250,742 | 290,529
United States | 38,558,371 | 50,155,783 | 62,947,714 | 75,994,575 | 91,972,266 | 105,710,620 | 122,775,046 | 131,669,275 | 150,697,361

Table 3: 1960–2010

Name	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010
Alabama | 3,266,740 | 3,444,165 | 3,893,888 | 4,040,587 | 4,447,100 | 4,779,736
Alaska | 226,167 | 300,382 | 401,851 | 550,043 | 626,932 | 710,231
Arizona | 1,302,161 | 1,770,900 | 2,718,215 | 3,665,228 | 5,130,632 | 6,392,017
Arkansas | 1,786,272 | 1,923,295 | 2,286,435 | 2,350,725 | 2,673,400 | 2,915,918
California | 15,717,204 | 19,953,134 | 23,667,902 | 29,760,021 | 33,871,648 | 37,253,956
Colorado | 1,753,947 | 2,207,259 | 2,889,964 | 3,294,394 | 4,301,261 | 5,029,196
Connecticut | 2,535,234 | 3,031,709 | 3,107,576 | 3,287,116 | 3,405,565 | 3,574,097
Delaware | 446,292 | 548,104 | 594,338 | 666,168 | 783,600 | 897,934
District of Columbia	763,956	756,510	638,333	606,900	572,059	601,723
Florida | 4,951,560 | 6,789,443 | 9,746,324 | 12,937,926 | 15,982,378 | 18,801,310
Georgia | 3,943,116 | 4,589,575 | 5,463,105 | 6,478,216 | 8,186,453 | 9,687,653
Hawaii | 632,772 | 768,561 | 964,691 | 1,108,229 | 1,211,537 | 1,360,301
Idaho | 667,191 | 712,567 | 943,935 | 1,006,749 | 1,293,953 | 1,567,582
Illinois | 10,081,158 | 11,113,976 | 11,426,518 | 11,430,602 | 12,419,293 | 12,830,632
Indiana | 4,662,498 | 5,193,669 | 5,490,224 | 5,544,159 | 6,080,485 | 6,483,802
Iowa | 2,757,537 | 2,824,376 | 2,913,808 | 2,776,755 | 2,926,324 | 3,046,355
Kansas | 2,178,611 | 2,246,578 | 2,363,679 | 2,477,574 | 2,688,418 | 2,853,118
Kentucky | 3,038,156 | 3,218,706 | 3,660,777 | 3,685,296 | 4,041,769 | 4,339,367
Louisiana | 3,257,022 | 3,641,306 | 4,205,900 | 4,219,973 | 4,468,976 | 4,533,372
Maine | 969,265 | 992,048 | 1,124,660 | 1,227,928 | 1,274,923 | 1,328,361
Maryland | 3,100,689 | 3,922,399 | 4,216,975 | 4,781,468 | 5,296,486 | 5,773,552
Massachusetts | 5,148,578 | 5,689,170 | 5,737,037 | 6,016,425 | 6,349,097 | 6,547,629
Michigan | 7,823,194 | 8,875,083 | 9,262,078 | 9,295,297 | 9,938,444 | 9,883,640
Minnesota | 3,413,864 | 3,804,971 | 4,075,970 | 4,375,099 | 4,919,479 | 5,303,925
Mississippi | 2,178,141 | 2,216,912 | 2,520,638 | 2,573,216 | 2,844,658 | 2,967,297
Missouri | 4,319,813 | 4,676,501 | 4,916,686 | 5,117,073 | 5,595,211 | 5,988,927
Montana | 674,767 | 694,409 | 786,690 | 799,065 | 902,195 | 989,415
Nebraska | 1,411,330 | 1,483,493 | 1,569,825 | 1,578,385 | 1,711,263 | 1,826,341
Nevada | 285,278 | 488,738 | 800,493 | 1,201,833 | 1,998,257 | 2,700,551
New Hampshire | 606,921 | 737,681 | 920,610 | 1,109,252 | 1,235,786 | 1,316,470
New Jersey | 6,066,782 | 7,168,164 | 7,364,823 | 7,730,188 | 8,414,350 | 8,791,894
New Mexico | 951,023 | 1,016,000 | 1,302,894 | 1,515,069 | 1,819,046 | 2,059,179
New York | 16,782,304 | 18,236,967 | 17,558,072 | 17,990,455 | 18,976,457 | 19,378,102
North Carolina | 4,556,155 | 5,082,059 | 5,881,766 | 6,628,637 | 8,049,313 | 9,535,483
North Dakota | 632,446 | 617,761 | 652,717 | 638,800 | 642,200 | 672,591
Ohio | 9,706,397 | 10,652,017 | 10,797,630 | 10,847,115 | 11,353,140 | 11,536,504
Oklahoma | 2,328,284 | 2,559,229 | 3,025,290 | 3,145,585 | 3,450,654 | 3,751,351
Oregon | 1,768,687 | 2,091,385 | 2,633,105 | 2,842,321 | 3,421,399 | 3,831,074
Pennsylvania | 11,319,366 | 11,793,909 | 11,863,895 | 11,881,643 | 12,281,054 | 12,702,379
Rhode Island | 859,488 | 946,725 | 947,154 | 1,003,464 | 1,048,319 | 1,052,567
South Carolina | 2,382,594 | 2,590,516 | 3,121,820 | 3,486,703 | 4,012,012 | 4,625,364
South Dakota | 680,514 | 665,507 | 690,768 | 696,004 | 754,844 | 814,180
Tennessee | 3,567,089 | 3,923,687 | 4,591,120 | 4,877,185 | 5,689,283 | 6,346,105
Texas | 9,579,677 | 11,196,730 | 14,229,191 | 16,986,510 | 20,851,820 | 25,145,561
Utah | 890,627 | 1,059,273 | 1,461,037 | 1,722,850 | 2,233,169 | 2,763,885
Vermont | 389,881 | 444,330 | 511,456 | 562,758 | 608,827 | 625,741
Virginia | 3,966,949 | 4,648,494 | 5,346,818 | 6,187,358 | 7,078,515 | 8,001,024
Washington | 2,853,214 | 3,409,169 | 4,132,156 | 4,866,692 | 5,894,121 | 6,724,540
West Virginia | 1,860,421 | 1,744,237 | 1,949,644 | 1,793,477 | 1,808,344 | 1,852,994
Wisconsin | 3,951,777 | 4,417,731 | 4,705,767 | 4,891,769 | 5,363,675 | 5,686,986
Wyoming | 330,066 | 332,416 | 469,557 | 453,588 | 493,782 | 563,626
United States | 179,323,175 | 203,211,926 | 226,545,805 | 248,709,873 | 281,421,906 | 308,745,538

Table 4: Enslaved population by state or territory, 1790–1860

Name	1790	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860
Alabama		494	2,565 | 41,879 | 117,549 | 253,532 | 342,844 | 435,080
Arkansas			136	1,617	4,576 | 19,935 | 47,100 | 111,115
California						| 0 | 0
Colorado								0
Connecticut | 2,764 | 951 | 310 | 97 | 25 | 17 | 0 | 0
Delaware | 8,887 | 6,153 | 4,177 | 4,509 | 3,292 | 2,605 | 2,290 | 1,798
District of Columbia		2,072	3,554	4,520	4,505	3,320	3,687	3,185
Florida					15,501	25,717 | 39,310 | 61,745
Georgia | 29,264 | 59,699 | 105,218 | 149,656 | 217,531 | 280,944 | 381,682 | 462,198
Illinois		107	168 | 917 | 747 | 331 | 0 | 0
Indiana		28	237 | 190 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0
Iowa						16 | 0 | 0
Kansas								2
Kentucky	12,430 | 40,343 | 80,561 | 126,732 | 165,213 | 182,258 | 210,981 | 225,483
Louisiana			34,660 | 69,064 | 109,588 | 168,452 | 244,809 | 331,726
Maine	0	0	0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0
Maryland | 103,036 | 105,635 | 111,502 | 107,398 | 102,994 | 89,737 | 90,368 | 87,189
Massachusetts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0
Michigan		0	24	0	1 | 0 | 0 | 0
Minnesota							0 | 0
Mississippi		2,995	14,523 | 32,814 | 65,659 | 195,211 | 309,878 | 436,631
Missouri			2,875	10,222 | 25,091 | 58,240 | 87,422 | 114,931
Nebraska								15
Nevada								0
New Hampshire | 158 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0
New Jersey | 11,423 | 12,422 | 10,851 | 7,557 | 2,254 | 674 | 236 | 18
New Mexico							0	0
New York | 21,324 | 20,613 | 15,017 | 10,088 | 75 | 4 | 0 | 0
North Carolina | 100,572 | 133,296 | 168,824 | 204,917 | 245,601 | 245,817 | 288,548 | 331,059
Ohio		0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0
Oregon							0 | 0
Pennsylvania | 3,737 | 1,706 | 795 | 211 | 403 | 64 | 0 | 0
Rhode Island | 948 | 380 | 108 | 48 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0
South Carolina | 107,094 | 146,151 | 196,365 | 258,475 | 315,401 | 327,038 | 384,984 | 402,406
Tennessee	3,417 | 13,584 | 44,535 | 80,107 | 141,603 | 183,059 | 239,459 | 275,719
Texas						| 58,161 | 182,566
Utah Territory							26	29
Vermont	0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Virginia | 287,959 | 339,499 | 383,521 | 411,886 | 453,698 | 431,873 | 452,028 | 472,494
Washington						0	0	0
West Virginia	4,668	7,172	10,836	15,169	17,673	18,488	20,500	18,371
Wisconsin				0	31	11	0	0
United States | 697,681 | 893,602 | 1,191,362 | 1,538,022 | 2,009,043 | 2,487,355 | 3,204,313 | 3,953,760

See also

• United States Census
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• List of U.S. states and territories by population
• List of U.S. states by population density
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