CENSUS
US State Populations


CENSUS is a dataset directory which contains some census data.

The US Constitution mandates that the apportionment of the House of Representatives be based on the population of the states, and that a census of state populations be made every ten years for this purpose.

The files here contain some rough, recent census results for the states. With a little care, this information can be used to study various schemes for "fair" distribution of the seats in the House of Representatives.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Related Data and Programs:

APPORTIONMENT, a FORTRAN90 library which implements simple versions of some of the apportionment rules used for the House of Representatives.

POPULATION, a dataset directory which contains population counts for various regions.

STATES, a dataset directory which contains some information about the individual American states.

Datasets:

Here are state populations as taken from the census. The states are listed alphabetically, and include the District of Columbia. Each line begins with the two letter abbreviation for the state, followed by its population.

Here are the number of representatives assigned to each state and the District of Columbia (which has zero). The states are sorted alphabetically. Each line begins with the two letter postal abbreviation for the state, followed by the number of representatives based on the census of that decade.

Here are a few auxilliary files:

You can go up one level to the DATASETS directory.


Last revised on 06 June 2012.