Just 10 more days until the release of the 1940 Census! This photograph shows where the census data was stored. The original caption reads: “Population Files Stored 154,071 Portfolios, Linear Feet of Filing Space is in Excess of Four Miles, 1940-1941” Why so many files? Enumerators counted 132.2 million U.S. residents in the 1940 Census. Alaska and Hawaii, which were territories at the time, were included in this count of 132.2 million. Puerto Rico was enumerated in the census, but its 1.9 million residents were not included in the total count. There are about 21.2 million people in the United States and Puerto Rico alive today who were eligible to be counted in the 1940 Census. Do you know one of them? Facts and figures via the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Just 10 more days until the release of the 1940 Census!

This photograph shows where the census data was stored. The original caption reads: “Population Files Stored 154,071 Portfolios, Linear Feet of Filing Space is in Excess of Four Miles, 1940-1941”

Why so many files? Enumerators counted 132.2 million U.S. residents in the 1940 Census.

Alaska and Hawaii, which were territories at the time, were included in this count of 132.2 million. Puerto Rico was enumerated in the census, but its 1.9 million residents were not included in the total count.

There are about 21.2 million people in the United States and Puerto Rico alive today who were eligible to be counted in the 1940 Census. Do you know one of them?

Facts and figures via the U.S. Census Bureau.

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