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Census Data: 1940

Guide to statistical information collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.

1940 Decennial Census

1940

16th census of the United States : 1940 ; Census of Business: 1939 ; retail trade ; kinds of business by areas, counties, and cities.

 

MU ELLIS  

HF5429 .U5 1940B  1-25

MU ELLIS  

HF5429 .U5 1940B  26-49

Consists of bulletins covering the 48 states and the District of Columbia. Arranged in alphabetical order and assigned volume numbers.

1940

16th census of the United States: 1940. Población. Boletín núm. 1-3] Puerto Rico. Population. Bulletin no. 1-3. Puerto Rico.

 

MU ANNEX  

HA219.P8 .A5 1940

 

1940

16th census of the United States, 1940. Population. Education, occupation and household relationship of males 18 to 44 years old.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HB1755 .A5 1940

MU ELLIS  

HB1755 .A5 1940

 

1940

16th census of the United States: 1940. Population. Fourth Series. Characteristics by age, marital status, relationship, education, and citizenship...

 

MU ELLIS  

HA201 1940 .A434  24

Consists of a bulletin for each of the 48 states and the District of Columbia. Arranged in alphabetical order and assigned volume numbers 1-49.

1940

16th census of the United States: 1940. Population. Second series. Characteristics of the population / prepared under the supervision of Dr. Leon E. Truesdel.

 

STATE HIST SOC REFERENCE  

317.3 Un3pch 1940  Sum.

Consists of bulletins covering the 48 states and the District of Columbia and a United States summary.

1940

Alphabetical index of occupations and industries.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

HA201 1940 .Z4

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 [microform] : census of business.

Census of business (1940)

FILM BOOK 0168

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 [microform] : manufactures.

Census of manufactures (1940)

FILM BOOK 0170

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 [microform] : mineral industries.

Census of mineral industries (1940)

FILM BOOK 0171

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 [microform] : population.

Census of population (1940)

FILM BOOK 0172

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 : population

Census of the United States (1940)

MU ELLIS  

HA201 1940 .A44

vol. 1-4

STATE HIST SOC REFERENCE  

317.3 Un3p 1940

v. 1. Number of inhabitants : total population for states, counties, and minor civil divisions; for urban and rural areas; for incorporated places; for metropolitan districts; and for census tracts. Comprising the first series of population bulletins for the states, territories, and possessions -- v. 2. Characteristics of the population : sex, age, race, nativity, citizenship, country of birth of foreign-born white, school attendance, education, employment status, class of worker, major occupation group and industry group. pt. 1. Alabama-District of Columbia. pt. 2. Florida-Iowa. pt. 3. Kansas-Michigan. pt. 4. Minnesota-New Mexico. pt. 5. New York-Oregon. pt. 6. Pennsylvania-Texas. pt. 7. Utah-Wyoming (7 v.) -- v. 3. The labor force : occupation, industry, employment, and income. pt. 1. United States summary. pt. 2 Alabama-Indiana. pt. 3. Iowa-Montana. pt. 4. Nebraska-Oregon. pt. 5. Pennsylvania-Wyoming (5 v.) --v. 4. Characteristics by age (4 v.)

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 [microform] : agriculture.

Census of the United States (1940). Agriculture

FILM BOOK 0167

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 [microform] : housing.

Census of the United States (1940). Housing.

FILM BOOK 0169

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 [microform] : Vital statistics rates in the United States, 1900-1940.

Census of vital statistics (1940)

FILM BOOK 0173

 

1940

Population: the labor force sample statistics, occupational characteristics. Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940.

The labor force sample statistics.

MU DEPOSITORY  HB2595 .A3 1940E

(2 copies)

 

1940

Population: differential fertility, 1940 and 1910. Fertility for states and large cities. Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

HA201 1940 .A552

 

1940

Population: nativity and parentage of the white population, general characteristics, age, marital status, and education, for states and large cities. Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940.

 

MU ANNEX  

HB3505 .A5 1940G

(2 copies)

 

1940

Procedural history of the 1940 census of population and housing / Robert M. Jenkins.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

HA201 1940 .J46 1985

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940.

 

 MU ELLIS  

HD9506.U62 A37  

vol. 1-2

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940.

 

MU ELLIS  

HD1725 .A5 1940

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Territories and possessions. Reports on agriculture in the territories of Alaska and Hawaii; and the following possessions: Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin islands of the United States.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HD1753 1940h

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Crop-sharing contracts, memorandum regarding legal relations and rights of parties when land owned by one is cultivated by the other under agreement to share the crops;

 

MU ELLIS  

HD1478.U6 A5 1940D

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Cross-line acreage. A special study; farms reporting and acreage by place of enumeration and by location of acreage, with relationship to all farms, by counties, with a summary for the United States; 1940 and 1935.

 

MU ELLIS  

HD1753 1940g

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture handbook; descriptions and illustrations of the uses of agriculture census statistics in education, business, research, and visual analysis; with explanations of the technique of tabulation and procedures.

16th census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture handbook.

 MU ELLIS  

HD1753 1940hd

(2 copies)

STATE HIST SOC REFERENCE  

317.3 Un3aha 1940

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Ranking agricultural counties. The rank of the leading counties in the United States in agriculture and agricultural products, 1940 and 1939, with comparisons, 1930 and 1929.

16th census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Ranking agricultural counties.

MU ELLIS  

HD1753 1940bc

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Special cotton report. Farms reporting, acreage, and production and value of farm products by number of bales harvested. With statistics for counties and a summary for the United States

16th census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Special cotton report

MU ELLIS  

HD9074 .A4 1940

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Special poultry report. Statistics by geographic divisions and states for poultry of all kinds on hand and raised; by counties for chickens and chicken egg production, by number of chickens on hand; and by counties for farms reporting chickens and turkeys raised, by numbers raised.

16th census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Special poultry report

MU ANNEX  

SF487 .U6 1940A

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture. Value of farm products by color and tenure of farm operator : statistics, by color and tenure of farm operator, on the value of farm products sold, traded, or used by farm households ... / a special study

16th census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture.. Value of farm products by color and tenure of farm operator

MU ELLIS  

HD1753 1940e

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : areas of the United States. 1940

16th census of the United States: 1940. Areas of the United States. 1940

MU ELLIS  

E159 .U52

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Census of business. Service establishments, 1939. States, counties, and cities.

Census of business. Service establishments, 1939.

MU DEPOSITORY  HF5343 .A5 1940a

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Census of business: ... 1939 ...

 

 MU ELLIS  

HF3007 .A423

vol. 1-5

I. Retail trade. pt. 1. United Srates summary and types of operation, credit sales and receivables, monthly employment and other subjects. pt. 2. Commodity sales and analysis by sales size. pt. 3. Kinds of business by areas: state, counties, and cities. 3 v. --II. Wholesale trade.--III. Service establishments, places of amusement, hotels, tourist courts and tourist camps.--IV. Construction.--V. Distribution of manufacturers' sales.

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States : 1940 ; census of business: 1939 ; retail trade ; credit sales and receivables

 

 MU DEPOSITORY  HF5429 .U5 1940E

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Drainage of agricultural lands. Land in drainage enterprises, capital invested and drainage works. Statistics for counties with state and United States summaries and a synopsis of drainage laws.

16th census of the United States: 1940. Drainage of agricultural lands

MU DEPOSITORY  HD1683.U4 A5 1940

MU ELLIS  

HD1683.U4 A5 1940

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. : Drainage of alluvial lands. A comparison of agriculture within and outside of drainage enterprises in the alluvial lands of the lower Mississippi valley.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HD1683.U4 A5 1940B

 

MU ELLIS  

HD1683.U4 A5 1940B

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Housing.

 

 MU ANNEX  

HD7293 .A488

Vol. 1,2,4

 MU DEPOSITORY  HD7293 .A488

vol. 3-4

 

V. I. Data for small areas. pt.1: United States summary and Alabama-Nebraska. pt. 2. Nevada-Wyoming. -- II. General characteristics. pt. 1. United States summary. pt. 2. Alabama-Indiana. pt. 3. Iowa-Montana. pt. 4. Nebraska-Pennsylvania. pt. 5. Rhode Island-Wyoming. -- III. Characteristics by monthly rent or value. pt. 1. United States summary. pt. 2. Alabama-New Hampshire. pt. 3. New Jersey-Wyoming. -- IV. Mortgages on owner-occupied nonfarm homes. pt. 1. United States summary. pt. 2. Alabama-New York. pt. 3. North Carolina-Wyoming.

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Housing

 

STATE HIST SOC REFERENCE  

317.3 Un3h 1940  

v.1,3,4

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 : housing, characteristics by type of structure : regions, states, cities of 100,000 or more, and principal metropolitan districts

16th census of the United States, 1940 : housing.

MU DEPOSITORY  HD7293 .A5 1940O

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 : Housing. Index of reports

16th census of the United States: 1940. Housing. Index of reports

MU ANNEX  

HD7293 .A5 1940K

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Irrigation of agricultural lands. Tabular and graphic presentation of specified irrigation census statistics.

16th census of the United States: 1940. Irrigation of agricultural lands

MU ANNEX  

HD1725 .A5 1940b

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Manufactures: 1939

 

MU ELLIS  

HD9724 .A4 1940B  

vol. 1

STATE HIST SOC REFERENCE

 317.3 Un3m 1940  

vol.3

v. 1. Statistics by subjects. -- v. 2. Reports by industries. 2 v. -- v. 3. Reports for states and outlying areas.

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940. Mineral industries, 1939

16th census of the United States, 1940. Mineral industries 1939

STATE HIST SOC REFERENCE  

317.3 Un3mi 1940  v.1-2

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population and housing. Families. Characteristics of rural-farm families; regions and divisions

 

MU ELLIS  

HD1753 1940bn

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population and housing. Families. General characteristics; states, cities of 100,000 or more, and metropolitan districts of 200,000 or more.

 

 MU ELLIS  

HA201 1940 .A553

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population and housing. Families. Income and rent; regions, cities of 1,000,000 or more, and metropolitan districts of 1,000,000 or more.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HD7293 .A5 1943K

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population and housing. Families. Tenure and rent; regions, cities of 1,000,000 or more; and metropolitan districts of 500,000 or more.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HD7293 .A5 1940N

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Characteristics of persons not in the labor force, 14 years old and over. Age, sex, color, household relationship, months worked in 1939 and usual major occupation group.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HD5723 .A5 1940H

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Characteristics of the nonwhite population by race.

 

MU ELLIS  

E185.6 .U586

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Comparative occupation statistics for the United States, 1870 to 1940, a comparison of the 1930 and the 1940 census occupation and industry classifications and statistics; a comparable series of occupation statistics, 1870 to 1930; and a social-economic grouping of the labor force, 1910 to 1940.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HB2595 .A3 1940G

MU ELLIS DOCS  

C 3.940-5:P 81/3

STATE HIST SOC REFERENCE  

317.3 Un3pco 1940

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Differential fertility 1940 and 1910. Standardized fertility rates. A supplement to the report designated "Fertility for states and large cities."

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

HB915 .A5 1940H

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Differential fertility, 1940 and 1910. Women by number of children ever born.

 

MU ELLIS  

HB915 .A5 1940I

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Education. Educational attainment of children by rental value of home.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

L111 .C5 1945

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Estimates of labor force, employment, and unemployment in the United States, 1940 and 1930.

 

 MU DEPOSITORY  HD5723 .A5 1940F

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 : population, families : employment status, regions and cities of 1,000,000 or more

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HD5723 .A5 1940E

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Families. Family wage or salary income in 1939; regions and cities of 1,000,000 or more.

 

MU ANNEX  

HC106.4 .A428 1940

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Families. Size of family and age of head. Regions and cities of 1,000,000 or more.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

HA201 1940 .A554

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Families. Types of families; regions and cities of 1,000,000 or more. Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Leon E. Truesdell, chief statistician for population.

 

 MU DEPOSITORY  

HA201 1940 .A555

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Internal migration, 1935 to 1940. Color and sex of migrants.

 

MU ELLIS  

HB1965 .A6 1940

STATE HIST SOC REFERENCE  

317.3 Un3pim 1940

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Internal migration, 1935 to 1940. Economic characteristics of migrants.

 

MU ELLIS  

HB1965 .A6 1946

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Internal migration, 1935 to 1940. Social characteristics of migrants.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HB1965 .A6 1940A

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Nativity and parentage of the white population. Country of origin of the foreign stock, by nativity, citizenship, age, and value or rent of home, for states and large cities.

 

MU ANNEX  

HB3015 .A5 1940G

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Nativity and parentage of the white population. Mother tongue, by nativity, parentage, country of origin, and age, for states and large cities.

 

MU ANNEX  

HB3015 .A5 1940B

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Special report on institutional population, 14 years old and over, characteristics of inmates in penal institutions, and in institutions for the delinquent, defective, and dependent,

 

 MU DEPOSITORY  HV8314 1940 .A52

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. State of birth of the native population.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

HB915 .A5 1940E

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. The labor force (sample statistics) Employment and family characteristics of women.

 

 MU ELLIS  

HD6093 .A53 1940A

 (2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. The labor force (sample statistics) Employment and personal characteristics.

 

MU ELLIS  

HD8064 .A5 1943

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. The labor force (sample statistics) Industrial characteristics.

 

MU ELLIS  

HD5723 .A5 1940G

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. The labor force(sample statistics) Usual occupation.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HB2595 .A3 1940C

(2 copies)

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Population. The labor force (sample statistics) Wage or salary income in 1939

 

MU DEPOSITORY  HD4973 .A4 1940b

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Unincorporated communities, United States, by states. Total population of unincorporated communities having 500 or more inhabitants for which separate figures could be compiled.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

HA201 1940 .A47

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States : 1940 : United States life tables and actuarial tables, 1939-1941

 

MU ANNEX  

HG8784.U6 A5 1940

MU ELLIS

HG8784.U6 A5 1940

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States : 1940 : Vital statistics rates in the United States, 1900-1940

 

 MU ELLIS  

HA201 1940 .A57

STATE HIST SOC REFERENCE  

317.3 Un3v 1940

 

1940

Sixteenth census of the United States. Classified index of occupations. Occupation classification based on the standard classification.

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

HA201 1940 .Z42

 

1940

What the new census means

 

MU DEPOSITORY  

HA217 .C5