An enumeration district is a geographic area designed to allow a census-taker to visit every house in the district within a certain number of days. It can be useful to page through census entries for a single enumeration district to learn more about a neighborhood or to find family members who were living with neighbors.

Go to the card catalog
(Or click the Search tab and select Card Catalog.)

On the Card Catalog page, type a census year into the Keyword(s) field on the left side of the page and click Search.
In the United States, censuses are held every ten years. Censuses are released 72 years after they’re taken, so the 1940 census is the latest census for which we have data.

If you searched for a census year and the right census appeared on the right side, click that census name and skip to step 7. If not (or if you don't know the year), continue to step 3.
On the left side under Filter by Location, select USA. To narrow the location further, select a state.
On the left side under Filter by Category, select Census & Voter Lists.
On the left side under Filter by Dates, select a decade.
On the right side of the page, click on the database you want to search.
Under Browse this collection on the right, select the state, county, and populated place. A populated place is a city, township, municipality, hamlet, or village.
Still on the right side of the page, click the link to the enumeration district that matches the location you’re looking for. If instead, you see a link saying Not stated, click that link.
To page through the enumeration district, click arrow on the right or click an image at the bottom of the page (if a series of images appears there).

Learning how to read censuses

United States censuses were taken every ten years from 1790 to now, and the United States government waits 72 years after a census to release its data. The last available census is the 1940 census; the 1950 census will be available in 2022.

The information provided in U.S. censuses has increased and changed with every decade. Knowing which questions were asked in each census, which states were included, and which records (if any) were lost after the federal census was taken can be useful.

Click on a census year to view facts about the census and see a list of the questions included in it. We also offer free, blank census forms, which you can use to see the format and column headings for each census year and to file census information. You'll need Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view these forms. If you don't have Acrobat Reader installed, you can download it for free.