1920 United States Census

1920 United States Census
The Fourteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau one month from January 5, 1920, determined the resident population of the United States to be 106,021,537, an increase of 150 percent over the 92,228,496 persons enumerated during the 1910 Census
Despite the constitutional requirement that House seats be reapportioned to the states respective of their population every ten years according to the census, members of Congress failed to agree on a reapportionment plan following this census, and the distribution of seats from the 1910 census remained in effect until 1933 In 1929, Congress passed the Reapportionment Act of 1929 which provided for a permanent method of reapportionment and fixed the number of Representatives at 435
Contents
1 Census questions
2 State rankings
3 Territories
4 City rankings
5 Data availability
6 Notes
7 External links
Census questions
The 1920 census collected the following information:1
address
name
relationship to head of family
sex
race
age
marital status
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