![]() ![]() This reflects the rise of domestic science classes in high schools and the idea that household chores were skills that should be studied. If so, enumerators (census takers) listed it as the person's, usually a woman's, occupation. If they were a “homemaker." Though many censuses include questions about employment, the 1930 Census also asked if there was a “homemaker" at the address. The data revealed that wasn't the case: In 1930, the median age of a woman's first marriage was 21.3 years old, essentially the same age as in 1920 (21.2 years) and not much younger than the age at first marriage in 1890 (22 years). Why? For context, after the Roaring Twenties and its flapper culture, social observers feared that women were postponing marriage and added the question on the census. But the 1930 Census was the only one to ask the person's age at their first marriage. And the 1900 Census and the 1910 Census also asked about the length of the present marriage. How old they were when they first got married. The 1930 Census asked about a person’s age at their first marriage. It was similar to the previous two censuses-with basic details like the respondent's address, sex, age, and birthplace-but with some interesting differences that hint at social changes. In other words, it's the last one with such substantial details on all Americans. Census was the last to ask detailed questions of all respondents, rather than a statistical sample. What 1930 Census Records Can Reveal About Your Ancestors Interestingly, census records show that after two decades of growing immigration from across the border, 97,116 Angelenos said they were of Mexican ethnicity. Where were all these Angelenos coming from? Most of LA's growth came from domestic migration only about 15% of its population (or 181,848 people) consisted of foreign-born residents. And finally, one decade later, in 1930, LA had more than doubled in size from 1920 to claim its spot as America’s fifth-largest city. By 1920, LA was at number ten, that is the tenth-largest city in the U.S. Just ten years later, in 1910, it had climbed to the number 17 spot. In 1900, LA was way down at number 36 in the list of U.S. With a population of roughly 1.2 million people in 1930, LA’s population growth in a few short decades could be described as explosive. But new to the list of top 5 cities by population was Los Angeles. New York City was the largest urban area in the country, with about 6.9 million people, followed by Chicago and Philadelphia, as in previous decades. The population trends also reflected the country's westward expansion. That was a decrease of roughly nine percent in just two decades, when compared to 1910. In 1930, the average household was 4.1 people. Population trends revealed the average size of an American household was declining. ![]() Germans, Poles, and Russians made up the next-largest groups of immigrants. in 1930, Italians were the largest group, with about 1.8 million people. ![]() And although the proportion of people in America who were immigrants had declined from the previous census count in 1920, foreign-born residents still made up about twelve percent of the population by 1930.Īmong the foreign-born population in the U.S. Immigration continued to climb in 1930, just as it had every decade since the mid-1800s. The 1930 Census found the resident population of the United States to be 123,202,624-a sixteen percent increase from the population recorded in the 1920 U.S. Yet as World War II brewed in Europe, there was more hardship to come. Thousands of infrastructure projects, including the Hoover Dam and LaGuardia Airport, put Americans back to work as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. The decade that followed would see global economic challenges, gangster Al Capone's conviction, the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains, and the debut of Superman comics. The 1930 Census can show you where your family stood at the start of the Great Depression, offering a window into their lives at a complex time. It was the start of an era of bank failures, drought, and unemployment-but also resilience and ingenuity. The 15th population count, it recorded Americans' status as of April 1, 1930, five months after the stock market crash of 1929. Census was held at a difficult time in the country's history. ![]()
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