The Eighteenth Decennial Census of the United States Census of Population: 1960 Volume I CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POPULATION Number of Inhabitants, General Population Characteristics, and Detailed Characteristics Part 30 Prepared under the supervision of HOWARD G. BRUNSMAN U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS RICHARD M. SCAMMON, Director (from May 1, 1961) PREFACE This report presents statistics from the 1960 Census of Population on the number of inhabitants and the characteristics of the population of the State and of its constituent areas. Legal provision for this census, which was conducted as of April 1, 1960, was made in the Act of Congress of August 31, 1954 (amended August 1957) which codified Title 13, United States Code. Comparable statistics from earlier censuses are also presented in this report. The major portion of the information compiled from the 1960 Census of Population is contained in Volume I, Characteristics of the Population. A description of the other final reports of the 1960 Population Census appears on page IV. Volume I, of which this report is a part, consists of Part A and the 57 numbered parts listed on page IV. The parts for the United States, each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico are bound in 53 individual books; the 4 parts for Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United States, American Samoa, and the Canal Zone are bound in a single book. The detailed tables presented in each numbered part of Volume I were originally published in four separate reports. Those reports (which correspond to chapters A, B, C, and D in this book) were identified by the following series designations and titles: PC(1)−A, Number of Inhabitants; PC(1)−B, General Population Characteristics; PC(1)-C, General Social and Economic Characteristics; and PC(1)–D, Detailed Characteristics. (For Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Canal Zone, the material normally contained in the PC(1)-B, C, and D reports was included in PC(1)-B.) Part A of Volume I is a compendium of the 57 series PC(1)-A reports. It presents in a single book, for library and other reference use, the 1960 Census population counts for States and their component areas. A large number of persons participated in the various activities of the 1960 Census of Population. Primary responsibilities were exercised by many of the persons listed on the preceding page. Within the Population, Demographic Operations, Field, Geography, and Statistical Methods Divisions, most of the staff members worked on the program. This report was prepared under the supervision of Howard G. Brunsman, Chief, Population Division, and Henry S. Shryock, Jr., David L. Kaplan, and Paul C. Glick, Assistant Chiefs, with the assistance of Sigmund Schor (Systems Coordinator to January 1962). The following members of the Population Division also had a major role in planning the content of this report: Henry D. Sheldon, Chief, Tobia Bressler, Charles P. Brinkman, Elizabeth A. Larmon, Gordon F. Sutton, Melvin Zelnik, and Denis F. Johnston of the Demographic Statistics Branch; Charles B. Nam, Chief, Education and Social Stratification Statistics Branch; Wilson H. Grabill, Chief, John C. Beresford, David M. Heer, and Robert Parke, Jr., of the Family and Fertility Statistics Branch; Stanley Greene, Chief, Stuart H. Garfinkle (Chief to October 1961), William J. Milligan, Miles A. Abelson, Arthur Podolsky, and G. Marie Dodd of the Economic Statistics Branch; and James C. Byrnes, Chief, Selma F. Goldsmith (Chief to April 1962), and Arno I. Winard of the Consumer Income and Expenditures Statistics Branch. Technical editorial work was performed by Mildred M. Russell, Chief, Publications Branch, assisted by Leah S. Anderson. Important contributions were made by Morton A. Meyer, Chief, Glen S. Taylor (Chief to June 1961), E. Richard Bourdon, Richard A. Hornseth, Morris Gorinson, Willard P. Hess, Patience Lauriat, Betty Mitchell, Catherine Neafsey, Richard J. Rice, Leo Solomon, and Florence Wright of the Demographic Operations Division in the processing and compilation of the statistics; Jefferson D. McPike, Chief, Robert B. Voight (Chief to July 1960), Ivan Munro, Paul R. Squires, and George K. Klink of the Field Division in the collection of the information; William T. Fay, Chief, Robert C. Klove, and Robert L. Hagan of the Geography Division in the delineation of special types of urban territory and other geographic work; Joseph Steinberg, Chief, Robert Hanson, and Herman Fasteau of the Statistical Methods Division in the planning of sampling and quality control procedures; and by William N. Hurwitz, Chief, Statistical Research Division, and Harold Nisselson, Jack Silver, Leon Gilford, and William H. Cook in the formulation of enumeration procedures. Important contributions were also made by Lowell T. Galt and Herman P. Miller of the Office of the Director, by A. W. von Struve, Public Information Officer until his death in October 1962, and by the staffs of the Administrative Service Division, Everett H. Burke, Chief; Budget and Management Division, Charles H. Alexander, Chief; Jeffersonville Census Operations Office, Robert D. Krook, Chief; Data Processing Systems Division, Robert F. Drury, Chief; and Personnel Division, James P. Taff, Chief. Robert H. Brooks of the Administrative Service Division, assisted by John F. Lanham, was responsible for the 1960 Census printing arrangements. To help carry out the 1960 Census most efficiently and effectively as well as to help maximize the usefulness of the results, a number of special advisory groups were organized in 1956 when the planning work was begun. One group established by the Census Bureau was the Technical Advisory Committee for the 1960 Population Census, which consisted of 19 experts in various phases of demography selected in their individual capacities. For their long and careful work on the program, special acknowledgment is made to the members of this Committee: Philip M. Hauser (chairman), Donald J. Bogue, Dorothy S. Brady, John D. Durand, John K. Folger, Maurice I. Gershenson, Harold Goldstein, Robert D. Grove, Margaret Jarman Hagood, Peter Henle, William Hodgkinson, Jr., Stanley Lebergott, Frank W. Notestein, Gladys L. Palmer, Charles B. Reeder, Calvin F. Schmid, Mortimer Spiegelman, Dorothy Swaine Thomas, and P. K. Whelpton. To supplement the views of this Committee with those of a less technically oriented but more broadly based group, the Census Bureau established the Council of Population and Housing Census Users (with Ralph J. Watkins, then of the Brookings Institution, as chairman), consisting of representatives of approximately 70 professional and public organizations whose memberships include many users of decennial census statistics. The U.S. Bureau of the Budget established the Federal Agency Population and Housing Census Council (with Peyton Stapp and Margaret E. Martin as successive chairmen) to coordinate the interests of the more than 30 Federal agencies which make substantial use of the decennial census material. In addition, the Population Association of America established a number of work groups to explore in detail the data needs for specific subjects; and the Census Advisory Committee of the American Statistical Association participated in certain phases of the 1960 Census as part of its continuing review of all Bureau programs. The guidance and counsel provided by all these groups, as well as by many other organizations and individuals, were invaluable in developing and carrying through the program. March 1963. III FINAL REPORTS OF THE 1960 CENSUS OF POPULATION The final reports of the 1960 Population Census are arranged in four volumes and a joint Population-Housing series of census tract reports. For Volumes II, III, and IV, which remain to be published as of this date, the scheduled content is subject to change. The 1960 Population Census publication program also includes preliminary, advance, and supplementary reports, certain evaluation, procedural, and administrative reports, and graphic summaries. After publication, copies of all reports are available for examination or purchase at any U.S. Department of Commerce Field Office. For reports not yet issued, more detailed descriptions of content than those given below can be obtained from the Chief, Population Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington 25, D.C. Certain types of unpublished statistics are available for the cost of preparing a copy of the data. Also, under certain conditions, special tabulations of the 1960 Census data can be prepared on a reimbursable basis. In addition, there are available for purchase magnetic tapes and punchcards containing 1960 Census information on the characteristics of a one-in-a-thousand and a one-in-ten-thousand sample of the population of the United States. Confidentiality of the information, as required by law, has been maintained by the omission of certain identification items. Further information about any of these materials can be obtained by writing to the Chief, Population Division, Bureau of the Census. Volume I. Characteristics of the Population. See description on page III. Volume II (Series PC(2) reports). Subject Reports. Each report in this volume will concentrate on a particular subject. Detailed information and cross-relationships will generally be provided on a national and regional level; in a few reports data for States or standard metropolitan statistical areas will also be shown. Among the characteristics to be covered are national origin and race, fertility, families, marital status, migration, education, employment, unemployment, occupation, industry, and income. There will also be a report on the geographic distribution and characteristics of the institutional population. Volume III (Series PC(3) reports). Selected Area Reports. This volume will contain three reports presenting, respectively, selected characteristics of the population (1) for State economic areas, and (2) according to the size of place where the individual resided, and (3) social and economic characteristics of Americans overseas. Volume IV. Summary and Analytical Report. This report will present an analytical review of the results of the 1960 Census of Population for each major field. Series PHC(1). Census Tract Reports. These reports present information on both population and housing subjects. There is one report for each of 180 tracted areas in the United States and Puerto Rico. The population subjects include age, race, marital status, country of origin of the foreign stock, relationship to head of household, school enrollment, years of school completed, place of residence in 1955, employment status, occupation group, industry group, place of work, means of transportation to work, and income of families, as well as certain characteristics of the nonwhite population in selected tracts. The housing subjects include tenure, color of head of household, vacancy status, condition and plumbing facilities, number of rooms, number of bathrooms, number of housing units in structure, year structure built, basement, heating equipment, number of persons in unit, persons per room, year household head moved into unit, automobiles available, value of property, and gross and contract rent, as well as certain characteristics of housing units with nonwhite household head for selected tracts. In addition, for selected tracts these reports contain data on certain population and housing subjects for persons of Puerto Rican birth or parentage and for white persons with Spanish surname. (This series is the same as the tract reports included in the publication program for the 1960 Census of Housing.) |