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The Seventeenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 150,520,798, an increase of 14.5 percent over the 132,164,569 persons enumerated during the 1940 Census.

[edit] State Rankings

1950 U.S. State Population Rankings
Rank State Population
1 New York 14,909,000
2 California 10,674,000
3 Pennsylvania 10,520,000
4 Illinois 8,754,000
5 Ohio 7,998,000
6 Texas 7,748,000
7 Michigan 6,421,000
8 New Jersey 4,860,000
9 Massachusetts 4,690,000
10 North Carolina 4,060,000
11 Indiana 3,952,000
12 Missouri 3,946,000
13 Georgia 3,451,000
14 Wisconsin 3,449,000
15 Tennessee 3,304,000
16 Virginia 3,262,000
17 Alabama 3,060,000
18 Minnesota 2,995,000
19 Kentucky 2,957,000
20 Florida 2,821,000
21 Louisiana 2,701,000
22 Iowa 2,621,000
23 Washington 2,386,000
24 Maryland 2,376,000
25 Oklahoma 2,193,000
26 Mississippi 2,169,000
27 South Carolina 2,119,000
28 West Virginia 2,006,000
29 Kansas 1,915,000
30 Arkansas 1,906,000
31 Oregon 1,532,000
32 Colorado 1,337,000
33 Nebraska 1,324,000
34 Connecticut 1,032,000
35 Maine 911,000
x District of Columbia 814,000
36 Rhode Island 779,000
37 Arizona 756,000
38 Utah 696,000
39 New Mexico 687,000
40 South Dakota 652,000
41 North Dakota 616,000
42 Montana 598,000
43 Idaho 592,000
44 New Hampshire 531,000
45 Hawaii 491,000
46 Vermont 377,000
47 Delaware 321,000
48 Wyoming 292,000
49 Nevada 162,000
50 Alaska 138,000

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