Delaware Census Records Online includes Federal and State censuses. Census records (especially when indexed) are one of the easiest ways to find family members and track individuals over their lifetime.
US Census Records
In the United States, federal censuses are taken every 10 years and these records are made public 72 after the census is taken. US Censuses began in 1790 and the most recent census available is the 1950 census. Most of the 1890 census was destroyed by fire, but parts remain and you can use other records as census substitutes.
HINT: You can look at federal (1870-1920) census records to see if your ancestor was naturalized and if they were, visit Delaware Naturalization Records online.
HINT: Between 1790 and 1840, only the head of household is named in the census.
HINT: Between 1850 and present, all people living in a household are named in the census.
HINT: Between 1850 and 1880 there are census mortality schedules listing who died in the year before the census was taken.
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Delaware Census Records online at the federal level
US – Census Records – 1800 – United States Census, 1800, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1810 – United States Census, 1810, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1820 – United States Census, 1820, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1830 – United States Census, 1830, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1840 – United States Census, 1840, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1848 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1850 – United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1850 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1850 – United States census of Delaware; persons who died during the [census] year, 1850-1880, at FS
US – Census Records – 1850 – United States Census, 1850, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1860 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1860 – United States Census, 1860, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1880 – United States census of Delaware, social statistics schedules, 1850-1870, at FS
US – Census Records – 1880 – United States census of Delaware, supplemental schedules for the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes, 1880, at FS
US – Census Records – 1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1885 – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1908 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1930 – United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images, at FS
US – Census Records – 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images, at FS
Delaware Census Records online at the state level
Delaware – Census Records – 1693 – The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Family histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey and Cecil County, Maryland, 1638-1693, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1665 – Early Delaware Census Records, 1665-1697, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1790 – Reconstructed 1790 census of Delaware, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1790 – Reconstructed 1790 census of Delaware, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1800 – 1800 census, Delaware, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1800 – Delaware, 1800-1840 federal census : population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1800 – Delaware, 1800-1840 federal census: population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1850 – Delaware, 1850 federal census : population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1860 – Delaware, 1860 federal census : population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1870 – Delaware, 1870 federal census : population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1880 – Delaware, 1880 federal census : soundex and population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1900 – Delaware, 1900 federal census : soundex and population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1910 – Delaware, 1910 federal census : population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1920 – Delaware, 1920 federal census : soundex and population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1930 – Delaware, 1930 federal census : population schedules ; NARA microfilm publication T626, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1940 – Delaware, 1940 population census : population schedules, at FS
Delaware – Census Records – 1950 – On Our Cover: Delaware 1950 census, at FS
Delaware Census Records online at the county level
Kent County – Census – 1800 – 1800 Census of Kent County, Delaware, at FS
New Castle County – Census – 1800 – 1800 Census of New Castle County, Delaware, at FS
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