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The Nineteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 203,302,031, an increase of 13.4 percent over the 179,323,175 persons enumerated during the 1960 Census.

[edit] Census questions

The 1970 census collected the following information from all respondents (the same as that collected in 1960)^[1]:

address
name
relationship to head of household
sex
race
age
marital status

Approximately 20 percent of households received a "long form" of the 1970 census, which contained over 100 questions. Full documentation on the 1970 census, including census forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.

[edit] Data availability

Microdata from the 1970 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.

[edit] State rankings

1970 U.S. State Population Rankings
Rank	State	Population
1	California	19,953,000
2	New York	18,237,000
3	Pennsylvania	11,794,000
4	Texas	11,197,000
5	Illinois	11,114,000
6	Ohio	10,652,000
7	Michigan	8,875,000
8	New Jersey	7,168,000
9	Florida	6,789,000
10	Massachusetts	5,689,000
11	Indiana	5,194,000
12	North Carolina	5,082,000
13	Missouri	4,677,000
14	Virginia	4,648,000
15	Georgia	4,590,000
16	Wisconsin	4,418,000
17	Tennessee	3,924,000
18	Maryland	3,922,000
19	Minnesota	3,805,000
20	Louisiana	3,641,000
21	Alabama	3,444,000
22	Washington	3,409,000
23	Kentucky	3,219,000
24	Connecticut	3,032,000
25	Iowa	2,825,000
26	South Carolina	2,591,000
27	Oklahoma	2,559,000
28	Kansas	2,247,000
29	Mississippi	2,217,000
30	Colorado	2,207,000
31	Oregon	2,091,000
32	Arkansas	1,923,000
33	Arizona	1,771,000
34	West Virginia	1,744,000
35	Nebraska	1,483,000
36	Utah	1,059,000
37	New Mexico	1,016,000
38	Maine	992,000
39	Rhode Island	947,000
40	Hawaii	789,000
41	New Hampshire	788,000
x	District of Columbia	757,000
42	Idaho	713,000
43	Montana	694,000
44	South Dakota	666,000
45	North Dakota	618,000
46	Delaware	548,000
47	Nevada	489,000
48	Vermont	444,000
49	Wyoming	332,000
50	Alaska	300,000

[edit] Conclusions

California took over as the most populous state, New York had previously been ranked number one. While the entire country increased to more than 204 million persons, four states lost population with West Virginia leading the list, down 8 and a half percent from 1960.^[2]