United States Census Data

This page provides information about the 1800 census and links to online resources for digital data, transcripts of the original and printed results of the originals.

See more about the 1800 census from the National Archives 

• Direct URL : https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1800

See more below for:

• Questions Asked
• Data Description
• 1800 Census Geography
• Data Sources, including tabular data and original reports and enumerations.

• The number of free White males and females under 10 years of age
• The number of free White males and females 10 years but under 16 years
• The number of free White males and females 16 years but under 26 years
• The number of free White males and females  26 years but under 45 years
• The number of free White males and females 45 years and upward
• Number of all other free persons
• Number of slaves

Aggregated results of the 1800 census are available from the National Historical GIS Project at IPUMS from the University of Minnesota : NHGIS (Requires free registration).  

• Direct URL nhgis.org

An index of variables is available HERE

• Direct URL : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ceiOSfldzBLbOs9URDdGqhPA2k9E5srT6WixPzd06XE/edit?usp=sharing

The following spatial data are available from NHGIS.org

1800 States

17 States : Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts (including Maine), New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia.  3 Territories : Indiana Territory, Mississippi Territory, Northwest Territory
 

1800 Counties

427 Counties : Some Counties and districts contain no population data.

Digital data in tabular format:

Aggregated results of the 1800 census are available from the National Historical GIS Project at IPUMS from the University of Minnesota. 

Click here: https://www.nhgis.org/ (Requires free registration)

Surviving transcripts of the 1800 census enumerations are available from Archive.org:

• Connecticut

Fairfield and Hartford Counties
Litchfield, New Haven, Tolland, and Windham Counties
Middlesex and New London Counties

• Delaware
• District of Columbia

• Maine (part of Massachusetts)

Cumberland and Lincoln Counties

Hancock and Kennebec Counties

Washington and York Counties

• Maryland

Allegany and Anne Arundel Counties, Baltimore City, and Calvert County
Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Frederick, and Kent Counties

Dorchester, Harford, Montgomery, Prince Georges, and Queen Anne’s Counties

St. Mary’s, Somerset, Talbot, Washington, and Worcester Counties

• Massachusetts

Barnstable and Berkshire Counties
Bristol and Dukes Counties
Essex County
Hampshire County
Middlesex County
Nantucket and Norfolk Counties
Plymouth, Suffolk, and Worcester Counties

• New Hampshire
• New York

Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Essex, and Green Counties
Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, and Herkimer Counties
Kings, New York, and Oneida Counties
Montgomery, Onondaga, Steuben, and Tioga Counties
Ontario, Cayuga, and Chenango Counties
Otsego, Queens, Richmond, and Rockland Counties
Rensselaer, Schoharie, and Washington Counties
Saratoga, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties

• North Carolina

Anson, Ashe, Brunswick, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Iredell, and Lincoln Counties
Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Gates, and Halifax Counties
Bladen, Carteret, Caswell, Chatham, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin, Franklin, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Hertford, Johnston, and Jones Counties
Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Orange, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties
Lenoir, Moore, Nash, Onslow, Person, Pitt, Randolph, Robeson, Rockingham, Sampson, Stokes, Surry, Wake, Warren, and Wayne Counties
Mecklenburg, Montgomery, New Hanover, Richmond, Rowan, Rutherford, and Wilkes Counties

• Pennsylvania

Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, and Berks Counties
Beaver, Bedford, Bucks, Butler, and Chester Counties
Crawford, Cumberland, Delaware, Fayette, and Franklin Counties
Centre, Mifflin, Northampton, and Northumberland Counties
Dauphin, Erie, Greene, and Huntingdon Counties
Lancaster, Luzerne, and Mercer Counties
Lycoming, Montgomery, and Westmoreland Counties
Philadelphia County (excluding the city of Philadelphia)
City of Philadelphia and Somerset and Venango Counties
Warren, Washington, Wayne, and York Counties

• Rhode Island

Bristol, Kent, and Providence Counties
Newport and Washington Counties

• South Carolina

Abbeville, Barnwell, Chester, Chesterfield, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, and Greenville Counties and Districts
Beaufort, Charleston, and Colleton Districts
Georgetown, Winyaw, Waccamaw, Kingston, Kershaw, Marion, Liberty, Williamsburg, Orangeburg, Lexington, Orange, Lexington (additional schedules), Sumter, Claremont, Clarendon, Selem, and York counties and Districts
Lancaster, Laurens, Marlboro, Newberry, Pendleton, Spartanburg, and Union Districts

• Vermont

Addison, Bennington, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Orange, and Orleans Counties
Rutland, Windsor, and Windham Counties