1990 United States Census Information & 1990 United States Census Links at HealthHaven.com

The Twenty-first United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9.8 percent over the 226,545,805 persons enumerated during the 1980 Census.^[1]

Approximately 16 percent of households received a "long form" of the 1990 census, which contained over 100 questions. Full documentation on the 1990 census, including census forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.

[edit] Data availability

Microdata from the 1990 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

1	California	29,760,000
2	New York	17,990,000
3	Texas	16,987,000
4	Florida	12,938,000
5	Pennsylvania	11,882,000
6	Illinois	11,431,000
7	Ohio	10,847,000
8	Michigan	9,295,000
9	New Jersey	7,730,000
10	North Carolina	6,629,000
11	Georgia	6,478,000
12	Virginia	6,187,000
13	Massachusetts	6,016,000
14	Indiana	5,544,000
15	Missouri	5,117,000
16	Wisconsin	4,892,000
17	Tennessee	4,877,000
18	Washington	4,867,000
19	Maryland	4,781,000
20	Minnesota	4,375,099
21	Louisiana	4,220,000
22	Alabama	4,041,000
23	Kentucky	3,685,000
24	Arizona	3,685,000
25	South Carolina	3,487,000
26	Colorado	3,294,000
27	Connecticut	3,287,116
28	Oklahoma	3,146,000
29	Oregon	2,842,000
30	Iowa	2,777,000
31	Mississippi	2,573,000
32	Kansas	2,478,000
33	Arkansas	2,351,000
34	West Virginia	1,793,000
35	Utah	1,723,000
36	Nebraska	1,578,000
37	New Mexico	1,515,000
38	Maine	1,228,000
39	Nevada	1,202,000
40	New Hampshire	1,109,000
41	Hawaii	1,108,000
42	Idaho	1,007,000
43	Rhode Island	1,003,000
44	Montana	799,000
45	South Dakota	696,000
46	Delaware	666,000
47	North Dakota	639,000
x	District of Columbia	607,000
48	Vermont	563,000
49	Alaska	550,000
50	Wyoming	454,000