The Historical Census Browser
Maintained online by the University of Virginia Library this excellent source will allow you to:
Examine state and county topics for individual census years 1790-1960.
- examine multiple topics within a census year
- produce tables of data by state or county
- sort data by selected categories
- create ratios between any two data categories
- examine a topic across multiple census years
- produce tables of data by state or county
- review: general population, education and literacy, the economy, manufacturing and employment, demographics of race and birth, agricultural information, and investigate the slave population
