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.
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The 1920 census collected the following information[1]:
Full documentation for the 1920 census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.
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.
| Rank | State |
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| 1 | New York |
| 2 | Pennsylvania |
| 3 | Illinois |
| 4 | Ohio |
| 5 | Texas |
| 6 | Massachusetts |
| 7 | Michigan |
| 8 | California |
| 9 | Missouri |
| 10 | New Jersey |
| 11 | Indiana |
| 12 | Georgia |
| 13 | Wisconsin |
| 14 | North Carolina |
| 15 | Kentucky |
| 16 | Iowa |
| 17 | Minnesota |
| 18 | Alabama |
| 19 | Tennessee |
| 20 | Virginia |
| 21 | Oklahoma |
| 22 | Louisiana |
| 23 | Mississippi |
| 24 | Kansas |
| 25 | Arkansas |
| 26 | South Carolina |
| 27 | West Virginia |
| 28 | Maryland |
| 29 | Connecticut |
| 30 | Washington |
| 31 | Nebraska |
| 32 | Florida |
| 33 | Colorado |
| 34 | Oregon |
| 35 | Maine |
| 36 | North Dakota |
| 37 | South Dakota |
| 38 | Rhode Island |
| 39 | Montana |
| 40 | Utah |
| 41 | New Hampshire |
| x | District of Columbia |
| 42 | Idaho |
| 43 | New Mexico |
| 44 | Vermont |
| 45 | Arizona |
| 46 | Delaware |
| 47 | Wyoming |
| 48 | Nevada |
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