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Since the 2000 US census, California has been known as the second state in US history (after Hawaii since its statehood in 1959) to become majority minority (it has since been joined by Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Maryland, and Georgia), and since 2014, the first state to have a Latino plurality (of any race). The media discussed the ...
California: 1788, 1790, 1796, 1797–1798, 1816, 1836, 1844,⊗ 1852. [1] California's first five censuses were conducted back when it was under Spanish rule whereas its sixth and seventh censuses were conducted when California was under Mexican rule. [3] [2] Colorado: 1885, 1861⊗, and 1866. [1] [2] Connecticut
Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state. [ a ] Since 1920, the "total population" of the United States has been considered the population of all the States and the District of Columbia; territories and other possessions were counted as additional ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom encouraging people to complete the 2020 United States census. The census has historically and up to the present been controversial due to its role in reapportioning political representation. [11] In the 1850s, census planners suppressed information about slavery due to pressure from Southern lawmakers. [11]
California lost more people than any state other than New York between April 2020 and July 2022, census data show. Texas gained nearly 900,000 people in the same period.
The non-Indian population of California in 1840 was about 8,000, as confirmed by the California 1850 U.S. census, which asked everyone their place of birth. The Indian population is unknown but has been variously estimated at 30,000 to 150,000 in 1840.
The 2011–2017 California drought persisted from December 2011 to March 2017 [109] and consisted of the driest period in California's recorded history, late 2011 through 2014. [110] The drought wiped out 102 million trees from 2011 to 2016, 62 million of those during 2016 alone. [ 111 ]
Location of California in the United States. California is the most populous and third largest U.S. state by area, located on the West Coast of the United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, California's population is 39,538,223 and has 155,858.33 square miles (403,671.2 km 2) of land.