Library Guides: Early Government Documents: Historical Statistics

Historical Statistics

Social Explorer
Provides easy-to-use tools for visual exploration of demographic information.
National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
Provides population, housing, agricultural, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for geographic units in the United States from 1790 to the present.
Decennial Census of Population and Housing
Additional census data.
Decennial Census Population and Housing by Decade
Data on population, labor, health, income, prices, slavery, migration, communications, national defense, immigration and more.
Historical Statistics of the U.S.: Millenium Edition Online (Cambridge University Press)
Statistical Abstracts of the United States (1878-2012)
This is the official, authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Published by the US Census Bureau.

Many Statistics can be found in the Annual Reports issued by executive agencies, e.g the Annual Report of the Agriculture Dept.