Twentieth census of the United States | ||
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General information | ||
Country | United States | |
Results | ||
Total population | 226,545,805 (![]() | |
Most populous | California 23,667,902 | |
Least populous | Alaska 401,851 |
The 1980 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 226,545,805, an increase of 11.4% over the 203,184,772 persons enumerated during the 1970 census.[1] It was the first census in which a state—California—recorded a population of 20 million people, as well as the first in which all states recorded populations of over 400,000. This was the first census to count Hispanic and Latino Americans as an ethnicity.