The Twentieth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 226,545,805, an increase of 11.4 percent over the 203,184,772 persons enumerated during the 1970 Census.
| Rank | State | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 23,669,000 |
| 2 | New York | 17,557,000 |
| 3 | Texas | 14,228,000 |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | 11,867,000 |
| 5 | Illinois | 11,419,000 |
| 6 | Ohio | 10,797,000 |
| 7 | Florida | 9,739,000 |
| 8 | Michigan | 9,259,000 |
| 9 | New Jersey | 7,364,000 |
| 10 | North Carolina | 5,874,000 |
| 11 | Massachusetts | 5,737,000 |
| 12 | Indiana | 5,491,000 |
| 13 | Georgia | 5,464,000 |
| 14 | Virginia | 5,346,000 |
| 15 | Missouri | 4,917,000 |
| 16 | Wisconsin | 4,706,000 |
| 17 | Tennessee | 4,591,000 |
| 18 | Maryland | 4,216,000 |
| 19 | Louisiana | 4,203,000 |
| 20 | Washington | 4,130,000 |
| 21 | Minnesota | 4,077,000 |
| 22 | Alabama | 3,891,000 |
| 23 | Kentucky | 3,661,000 |
| 24 | South Carolina | 3,119,000 |
| 25 | Connecticut | 3,107,000 |
| 26 | Oklahoma | 3,026,000 |
| 27 | Iowa | 2,914,000 |
| 28 | Colorado | 2,890,000 |
| 29 | Arizona | 2,718,000 |
| 30 | Oregon | 2,632,000 |
| 31 | Mississippi | 2,520,000 |
| 32 | Kansas | 2,363,000 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 2,285,000 |
| 34 | West Virginia | 1,950,000 |
| 35 | Nebraska | 1,570,000 |
| 36 | Utah | 1,461,000 |
| 37 | New Mexico | 1,299,000 |
| 38 | Maine | 1,125,000 |
| 39 | Hawaii | 985,000 |
| 40 | Rhode Island | 948,000 |
| 41 | Idaho | 945,000 |
| 42 | New Hampshire | 921,000 |
| 43 | Nevada | 799,000 |
| 44 | Montana | 787,000 |
| 45 | South Dakota | 690,000 |
| 46 | North Dakota | 654,000 |
| x | District of Columbia | 638,000 |
| 47 | Delaware | 596,000 |
| 48 | Vermont | 512,000 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 471,000 |
| 50 | Alaska | 400,000 |
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