Table 2.
Descriptive statistics, complete count decennial census data from California, 1920 (n = 3,260,722), 1930 (n = 5,317,087), and 1940 (n = 6,558,462).
| 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| Census-assigned race | |||||||
| Also on surname list | Chinese | 22,365 | 0.69% | 31,158 | 0.59% | 33,326 | 0.51% |
| Filipino | 1,619 | 0.05% | 21,099 | 0.40% | 21,792 | 0.33% | |
| “Hindu” | 1,157 | 0.04% | 1,434 | 0.03% | 1,085 | 0.02% | |
| Japanese | 66,032 | 2.03% | 94,674 | 1.78% | 88,533 | 1.35% | |
| Korean | 481 | 0.01% | 961 | 0.02% | 853 | 0.01% | |
| Black | 26,691 | 0.82% | 79,532 | 1.50% | 118,279 | 1.80% | |
| Mexican (1940 only) | 147,403 | 2.77% | |||||
| Native American | 13,395 | 0.41% | 17,987 | 0.34% | 14,611 | 0.22% | |
| White | 3,103,697 | 95.18% | 4,922,388 | 92.58% | 6,275,818 | 95.69% | |
| Other | 25,285 | 0.78% | 451 | 0.01% | 4,165 | 0.06% | |
| Sex | |||||||
| Female | 1,540,244 | 47.24% | 2,580,287 | 48.53% | 3,227,800 | 49.22% | |
| Male | 1,720,478 | 52.76% | 2,736,800 | 51.47% | 3,330,662 | 50.78% | |
| Age | |||||||
| <10 | 520,350 | 15.96% | 782,277 | 14.71% | 809,042 | 12.34% | |
| 10–19 | 476,486 | 14.61% | 790,323 | 14.86% | 941,720 | 14.36% | |
| 20–29 | 553,407 | 16.97% | 899,776 | 16.92% | 1,130,214 | 17.23% | |
| 30–39 | 589,195 | 18.07% | 915,891 | 17.23% | 1,087,279 | 16.58% | |
| 40–49 | 476,037 | 14.60% | 800,037 | 15.05% | 967,673 | 14.75% | |
| 50–59 | 331,191 | 10.16% | 567,971 | 10.68% | 783,747 | 11.95% | |
| 60–69 | 197,069 | 6.04% | 354,776 | 6.67% | 520,257 | 7.93% | |
| 70+ | 116,987 | 3.59% | 206,036 | 3.87% | 318,530 | 4.86% | |
| Surname category | |||||||
| Chinese | 15,294 | 0.47% | 22,337 | 0.42% | 24,863 | 0.38% | |
| Filipino | 1,262 | 0.04% | 6,346 | 0.12% | 7,922 | 0.12% | |
| Indian | 938 | 0.03% | 1,314 | 0.02% | 1,145 | 0.02% | |
| Japanese | 35,695 | 1.09% | 58,964 | 1.11% | 54,984 | 0.84% | |
| Korean | 1,358 | 0.04% | 1,635 | 0.03% | 1945 | 0.03% | |