UNITED STATES CENSUS, 1950

The 'Seventeenth United States Census', conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 150,520,798, an increase of 14.5 percent over the 132,164,569 persons enumerated during the 1940 Census.

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State Rankings

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State Rankings

1950 U.S. State Population Rankings'

Rank	State	Population
1	New York	14,909,000
2	California	10,674,000
3	Pennsylvania	10,520,000
4	Illinois	8,754,000
5	Ohio	7,998,000
6	Texas	7,748,000
7	Michigan	6,421,000
8	New Jersey	4,860,000
9	Massachusetts	4,690,000
10	North Carolina	4,060,000
11	Indiana	3,952,000
12	Missouri	3,946,000
13	Georgia	3,451,000
14	Wisconsin	3,449,000
15	Tennessee	3,304,000
16	Virginia	3,262,000
17	Alabama	3,060,000
18	Minnesota	2,995,000
19	Kentucky	2,957,000
20	Florida	2,821,000
21	Louisiana	2,701,000
22	Iowa	2,621,000
23	Washington	2,386,000
24	Maryland	2,376,000
25	Oklahoma	2,193,000
26	Mississippi	2,169,000
27	South Carolina	2,119,000
28	West Virginia	2,006,000
29	Kansas	1,915,000
30	Arkansas	1,906,000
31	Oregon	1,532,000
32	Colorado	1,337,000
33	Nebraska	1,324,000
34	Connecticut	1,032,000
35	Maine	911,000
x	District of Columbia	814,000
36	Rhode Island	779,000
37	Arizona	756,000
38	Utah	696,000
39	New Mexico	687,000
40	South Dakota	652,000
41	North Dakota	616,000
42	Montana	598,000
43	Idaho	592,000
44	New Hampshire	531,000
45	Hawaii	491,000
46	Vermont	377,000
47	Delaware	321,000
48	Wyoming	292,000
49	Nevada	162,000
50	Alaska	138,000

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★ Historic US Census data

★ 1951 U.S Census Report Contains 1950 Census results