1920
Census questions as they appeared on the schedule or questionairre.
| Questions | Options Appearing on Schedule or Questionairre | Instructions to Marshalls and Assistant Marshalls | Column/Question Number |
| Color or race Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. pp.50 |
Except for detailed rules for house-to-house canvassing and
for applying the "usual place of abode" criterion ("the place
where persons may be said to live or belong, or the place which is their
home...where a peson regularly sleeps") in determinining whether or
not to list someone, the enumerators' instructions for 1920 were substanitally
the same as for 1910. (pp. 50)
|
10 | |
| Year of immigration to the United States Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. pp.51 |
13 | ||
|
Naturalized or alien |
14 | ||
|
If naturalized, year of naturalization |
15 | ||
| Place of birth Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. pp. 51 |
19 | ||
| Mother tongue Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. pp. 51 |
20 | ||
| Place of birth (Father) Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. pp. 51 |
21 | ||
| Mother tongue (Father) Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. pp. 51 |
22 | ||
| Place of birth (Mother) Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. pp. 51 |
23 | ||
| Mother tongue (Mother) Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. pp. 51 |
24 | ||
| Whether able to speak English Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979. pp. 51 |
25 |
[Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1920. Volume II. Washington, D.C: Department of Commerce, 1921]
Reported Numbers
Chapter VII - YEAR OF IMMIGRATION OF THE FOREIGN BORN POPULATION
TABLE 1.- FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION, BY RACE AND YEAR OF IMMIGRATION, FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1920 and 1910
Fourteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1920, vol. II Population, General Report and Analytical Tables, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, page 779.
|
Year of Immigration |
All classes
|
White
|
Chinese
|
Japanese
|
All other
|
|||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
| Total 1920 |
13,920,692
|
100.0
|
13,712,754
|
100.0
|
43,107
|
100.0
|
81,338
|
100.0
|
3,391
|
100.0
|
| Total 1910 |
13,515,886
|
13,345,545
|
56,596
|
67,665
|
2,998
|
|||||
TABLE 8.- FOREIGN-BORN NEGROES, INDIANS, CHINESE, AND JAPANESE, BY YEAR OF IMMIGRATION, FOR SELECTED STATES: 1920.
[The states for which figures are presented in this table are those having 500 or more foreign-born inhabitants of the specified race.]
Fourteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1920, vol. II Population, General Report and Analytical Tables, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, page 787.
|
YEAR OF IMMIGRATION
|
||||||||||||
| Class of Population and state | Total foreign born of specified race: - 1920 | 1919 | 1918 | 1917 | 1916 | 1915 | 1914 | 1911-1913 | 1906- 1910 | 1901- 1905 | 1900 or earlier | Year not reported |
| CHINESE | ||||||||||||
| United States |
43,107
|
1,141
|
584
|
952
|
973
|
1,299
|
1,166
|
2,508
|
4,616
|
2,639
|
22,678
|
4,551
|
| Arizona |
726
|
17
|
11
|
24
|
9
|
20
|
16
|
39
|
76
|
17
|
415
|
82
|
| California |
19, 456
|
457
|
238
|
331
|
454
|
649
|
533
|
1,188
|
2,154
|
959
|
10,740
|
1,753
|
| Illinois |
1,906
|
49
|
25
|
27
|
47
|
58
|
37
|
96
|
220
|
157
|
908
|
282 |
| Massachusetts |
1,788
|
54
|
37
|
43
|
61
|
60
|
60
|
111
|
242
|
146
|
896
|
78
|
| Michigan |
512
|
16
|
7
|
14
|
19
|
26
|
26
|
45
|
75
|
31
|
173
|
80 |
| Montana |
650
|
4
|
1
|
4
|
9
|
6
|
6
|
18
|
33
|
16
|
344
|
209
|
| Nevada |
531
|
2
|
-----
|
13
|
7
|
14
|
9
|
13
|
44
|
29
|
367
|
33
|
| New Jersey |
920
|
26
|
18
|
28
|
15
|
30
|
24
|
51
|
115
|
76
|
455
|
82 |
| New York |
4,486
|
258
|
90
|
107
|
98
|
113
|
157
|
310
|
506
|
566
|
1,965
|
316
|
| Ohio |
621
|
13
|
13
|
17
|
22
|
33
|
28
|
60
|
107
|
31
|
219
|
78
|
| Oregon |
2,146
|
10
|
14
|
9
|
15
|
16
|
26
|
76
|
118
|
71
|
1,553
|
238
|
| Pennsylvania |
1,385
|
22
|
21
|
39
|
34
|
50
|
48
|
79
|
185
|
109
|
676
|
122
|
| Texas |
545
|
3
|
4
|
122
|
24
|
14
|
7
|
14
|
33
|
17
|
223
|
84
|
| Washington |
1,692
|
79
|
29
|
24
|
26
|
44
|
25
|
85
|
152
|
71
|
970
|
187
|
| All other states |
5,743
|
131
|
76
|
150
|
133
|
166
|
164
|
323
|
556
|
343
|
2,774
|
927
|
| JAPANESE | ||||||||||||
| United States |
81, 336
|
5,027
|
3,953
|
4,120
|
4,177
|
4,396
|
3,755
|
7,497
|
18,175
|
14,526
|
10,040
|
5,672
|
| California |
51,138
|
2,837
|
2,373
|
2,488
|
2,710
|
2,966
|
2,477
|
4,830
|
10,998
|
9,824
|
6,819
|
2,816
|
| Colorado |
1,762
|
72
|
76
|
94
|
83
|
88
|
79
|
136
|
395
|
386
|
166
|
187
|
| Idaho |
1,176
|
56
|
51
|
45
|
61
|
59
|
46
|
114
|
227
|
181
|
200
|
136
|
| Montana |
883
|
56
|
47
|
27
|
35
|
29
|
31
|
55
|
205
|
156
|
148
|
94
|
| Nebraska |
640
|
12
|
9
|
16
|
16
|
21
|
18
|
40
|
143
|
91
|
29
|
245
|
| Nevada |
649
|
25
|
27
|
33
|
26
|
31
|
28
|
42
|
186
|
140
|
69
|
42
|
| New York |
2,374
|
354
|
169
|
145
|
112
|
104
|
91
|
187
|
408
|
286
|
258
|
260
|
| Oregon |
3,157
|
176
|
164
|
164
|
179
|
181
|
144
|
310
|
819
|
491
|
362
|
167
|
| Utah |
2,359
|
124
|
112
|
145
|
125
|
125
|
103
|
182
|
632
|
491
|
224
|
96
|
| Washington |
12,966
|
1,061
|
762
|
762
|
664
|
607
|
596
|
1,268
|
3,212
|
1,742
|
1,194
|
1,098
|
| Wyoming |
1,029
|
52
|
47
|
48
|
42
|
51
|
38
|
90
|
279
|
196
|
101
|
85
|
| All other states |
3,205
|
202
|
116
|
153
|
124
|
134
|
104
|
243
|
671
|
542
|
470
|
446
|
CHAPTER VII.- CITIZENSHIP OF THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION.
[Figures are given for age and sex under each class for all census years for which data are available.]
Fourteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1920, vol. II Population, General Report and Analytical Tables, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, page 804.
| Census Year, Sex, Age, and Color or Race | Total | Native |
Foreign-Born
|
Citizens, Native or Naturalized | |||||||||
|
Number
|
Per cent.
|
||||||||||||
| Total | Naturalized | Having first papers | Alien | Citizenship not reported | Naturalized | Having first papers | Alien | Citizen-ship not reported | Number | Per Cent of total of specified class. | |||
| 1920 | |||||||||||||
| Both sexes, all ages |
105,710,620
|
91,789,928
|
13,920,692
|
6,493,088
|
1,223,490
|
5,398,605
|
805,509
|
46.6
|
8.8
|
38.8
|
5.8
|
98,283,016
|
93.0
|
|
Chinese |
61,639
|
18,532
|
43,107
|
1,834
|
430
|
39,436
|
1,407
|
4.3
|
1.0
|
91.5
|
3.3
|
29,366
|
33.0 |
| Japanese |
111,010
|
29,672
|
81,338
|
572
|
270
|
78,740
|
1,756
|
0.7
|
0.3
|
96.8
|
2.2
|
30,244
|
27.2
|
| All Other |
9,488
|
6,097
|
3,391
|
134
|
178
|
2,838
|
241
|
4.0
|
5.2
|
83.7
|
7.1
|
6,231
|
65.7
|
| Males, all ages |
53,900,431
|
46,224
|
7,675,435
|
3,451,609
|
1,137,911
|
2,688,929
|
396,986
|
45.0
|
14.8
|
35.0
|
5.2
|
49,676,605
|
92.2
|
| Chinese |
53,891
|
13,318
|
40,573
|
1,342
|
423
|
37,514
|
1,294
|
3.3
|
1.0
|
92.5
|
3.2
|
14,660
|
27.2
|
| Japanese |
72,707
|
15,494
|
57,213
|
399
|
239
|
55,296
|
1,279
|
0.7
|
0.4
|
96.6
|
2.2
|
15,893
|
21.9
|
| All Other |
8,674
|
5,527
|
3,147
|
108
|
177
|
2,649
|
213
|
3.4
|
5.6
|
84.2
|
6.8
|
5,635
|
65.0
|
| Females, all ages |
51,810,189
|
45,564,932
|
6,245,257
|
3,041,479
|
85,579
|
2,709,676
|
408,523
|
48.7
|
1.4
|
43.4
|
6.5
|
48,606,411
|
93.8
|
| Chinese |
7,748
|
5,214
|
2,534
|
492
|
7
|
1,922
|
113
|
19.4
|
0.3
|
75.8
|
4.5
|
5,706
|
73.6
|
| Japanese |
38,303
|
14,178
|
24,125
|
173
|
31
|
23,444
|
477
|
0.7
|
0.1
|
97.2
|
2.0
|
14,351
|
37.5
|
| All Other |
814
|
570
|
244
|
26
|
1
|
189
|
28
|
10.7
|
0.4
|
77.5
|
11.5
|
596
|
73.2
|
Chapter XII INABILITY TO SPEAK ENGLISH
[Figures are given under each class for all census years for which data are available.]
Fourteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1920, vol. II Population, General Report and Analytical Tables, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, page 1250.
|
BOTH SEXES
|
|||
|
Total number
|
Unable to Speak English
|
||
| Number | Percent | ||
|
1920
|
POPULATION 10 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER |
||
| Chinese |
56,230
|
10,020
|
17.8
|
| Japanese |
84,238
|
19,068
|
22.6
|
| All Other [1] |
8,948
|
982
|
11.0
|
| 1910 | |||
| Chinese |
68,924
|
28,370
|
41.2
|
| Japanese |
67,661
|
26,564
|
39.3
|
| All other [2] |
3,135
|
2,097
|
66.9
|
| 1900 | |||
| Chinese |
87,682
|
33,498
|
38.2
|
| Japanese |
24,091
|
14,843
|
61.6
|
| 1920 |
POPULATION 21 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER. |
||
| Chinese |
50,625
|
9,629
|
19.0
|
|
Japanese |
75,727
|
17,624
|
23.3
|
| All other [1] |
7,746
|
938
|
12.1 |
| Foreign born- | |||
| Chinese |
40,494
|
8,873
|
21.9
|
| Japanese |
75,069
|
17,600
|
23.4
|
| 1910 | |||
| Chinese |
62,902
|
26,338
|
41.9
|
| Japanese |
62,710
|
24,882
|
39.7
|
| All other [2] |
2,792
|
1,877
|
67.2
|
[1] Comprises Filipinos, Hindus, Koreans, Hawaiians, Malays, Siamese, Samoans, and Maoris.
[2]. Comprises Filipinos, Hindus, Koreans, and Maoris.