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South Carolina Charleston County Census
| Historical populations | ||
|---|---|---|
| Census | Pop. | %± |
| 1790 | 66,985 | — |
| 1800 | 57,480 | −14.2% |
| 1810 | 63,179 | 9.9% |
| 1820 | 80,212 | 27.0% |
| 1830 | 86,338 | 7.6% |
| 1840 | 82,661 | −4.3% |
| 1850 | 72,805 | −11.9% |
| 1860 | 70,100 | −3.7% |
| 1870 | 88,863 | 26.8% |
| 1880 | 102,800 | 15.7% |
| 1890 | 59,903 | −41.7% |
| 1900 | 88,006 | 46.9% |
| 1910 | 88,594 | 0.7% |
| 1920 | 108,450 | 22.4% |
| 1930 | 101,050 | −6.8% |
| 1940 | 121,105 | 19.8% |
| 1950 | 164,856 | 36.1% |
| 1960 | 216,382 | 31.3% |
| 1970 | 247,650 | 14.5% |
| 1980 | 276,974 | 11.8% |
| 1990 | 295,039 | 6.5% |
| 2000 | 309,969 | 5.1% |
| Source: "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. | ||
See South Carolina Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book for more information about statewide printed indexes.
See Charleston County, SC census assignments, including links to transcribed files [The USGenWeb Census Project®]
Contents |
1790
- Hagy, James W. People and Professions of Charleston, South Carolina, 1782-1802. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
1800
- Hagy, James W. People and Professions of Charleston, South Carolina, 1782-1802. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
1820 Manufactures
The original manufactures schedules for South Carolina are kept at the NARA, Washington, D.C. FHL copies: FHL Collection 1024517 - 1024518.
Published abstract:
- National Archives. Indexes to Manufactures Census of 1820. 1920; reprint, Knightstown, Ind.: Bookmark, 1977. FHL Collection 973 X2m 1820; digital version at Lineages. [Includes this county.]
1840 Revolutionary War Pensioners
- A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. Washington, D.C.: Blair and Rives, 1841. FHL Collection 973 X2pc 1840; FHL Collection 2321; digital version at Google Books. [See South Carolina, City of Charleston on page 142.]
1848
- Chapman, Anne W. "Inadequacies of the 1848 Charleston Census," The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Jan., 1980), pp. 24-34. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
- Dawson, J.L. and H.W. DeSaussure. Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, for the Year 1848, Exhibiting the Condition and Prospects of the City, Illustrated by Many Statistical Details, Prepared Under the Authority of the City Council. Charleston, S.C.: J.B. Nixon, Printer, 1849. Digital version at Google Books. [More of a statistical history rather than a list of names.]
1861
- Ford, Frederick A. Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, for the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared Under the Authority of the City Council. Charleston, S.C.: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. Digital version at Google Books.
1890
Lost, but substitutes are available on Ancestry, see Directories.
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