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This is a list of U.S. states and territories by historical population, as enumerated every decade by the United States Census. As required by the United States Constitution , a census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790.
Indiana's population continued to grow after the war, exceeding five million by the 1970 census. [59] In the 1960s the administration of Matthew E. Welsh adopted its first sales tax of 2%. [60] Indiana schools were desegregated in 1949. In 1950, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Indiana's population as 95.5% white and 4.4% black. [61]
Between 1880 and 1900, the urban population of the United States rose from 28% to 40%, and reached 50% by 1920, in part due to 9,000,000 European immigrants. After 1890 the US rural population began to plummet, as farmers were displaced by mechanization and forced to migrate to urban factory jobs.
The Indiana Territory, officially the Territory of Indiana, was created by an organic act that President John Adams signed into law on May 7, 1800, [1] to form an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1800, to December 11, 1816, when the remaining southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Indiana. [2]
Evansville is a city in and the county seat of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. [5] With a population of 118,414 at the 2020 census, it is Indiana's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the most populous city in Southern Indiana, and the 249th-most populous city in the United States.
Adding 200 new residents to each of Indiana's rural counties for the next 15 years would erase decades of population loss, the authors contend.
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Indianapolis, Indiana – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [172] Pop 2010 [173] Pop 2020 [174] % 2000 % ...