1910 United States Census

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The Thirteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau on April 15, 1910, determined the resident population of the United States to be 92,228,496, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 76,212,168 persons enumerated during the 1900 Census. The 1910 Census switched from a portrait page orientation to a landscape orientation.

[edit] Census Questions

The 1910 census collected the following information^[1]:

address
name
relationship to head of family
sex
race
age
marital status and, if married, number of years of present marriage
for women, number of children born and number now living
place of birth and mother tongue of person, and their parents
if foreign born, year of immigration; whether naturalized; whether able to speak English and, if unable, language spoken
occupation, industry and class of worker
if an employee, whether out of work during year
literacy
school attendance
whether home owned or rented, and, if owned, whether mortgaged
whether farm or house
whether a survivor of Union or Confederate Army or Navy
whether blind, deaf or dumb