Census

Census Bureau. General population and housing figures. Includes some stats on foreign born population, journey to work, urban/rural population, mean center of population, etc.

Archived webpage of the The Census Bureau's scanned Decennial Census volumes through 2010. Some of these files are zipped, and it may take a bit of digging to find the one that covers your geographic area and topic, but all the volumes are included.

Two top guides: University of Michigan's Historical Census Guide, with an excellent overview of various historical census materials, and the NC State University Census Guide.

CDs available in the Alderman Scholars' Lab.
Data from the 1980 Census down to the tract level. Data include items from both short and long forms (SF1 and SF3). Please note: We do not have a user guide written specifically for the 1980 CD, but those for the 1990 and 2000 data sets will cover the basic features available.
Please note: To use these CDs, please visit the Scholars' Lab weekdays between 9 and 5, when staff will be available.

Primarily a source for 1990 Census data, but also contains popluation estimates and projections, consumer spending information, and historical county statistics from 1790 to 1996. Data encompass a broad array of population and housing characteristics including age, sex, race, household relationship, education, income, ancestry, employment, disability status, and others items. Lowest level of geography displayed is the Census block group. CDs available in Scholars' Lab.