US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, New Jersey

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]

US Black Heritage Project; USBH 1880 Project

Goal: To create a profile for every Black American enumerated on the 1880 US federal census in New Jersey.

---

Total Population of New Jersey in 1880: 1,131,116

Total Black Population of New Jersey in 1880: 38,853

Counties in 1880 census	Total Pop.	Black Pop.	Spreadsheet	Status/Checked
Atlantic	18,704	894	Spreadsheet #3
Bergen	36,786	1,891	Spreadsheet #3
Burlington	55,402	2,570	Spreadsheet #2
Camden	62,942	5,687	Spreadsheet #2
Cape May	9,765	570	Spreadsheet #2	Done
Cumberland	37,687	1,965	Spreadsheet #2
Essex	189,929	4,727	Spreadsheet #3
Gloucester	26,186	1,444	Spreadsheet #3
Hudson	187,944	1,655	Spreadsheet #3
Hunterdon	38,570	552	Spreadsheet#4
Mercer	58,061	3,230	Spreadsheet#1
Middlesex	52,286	1,625	Spreadsheet#1	Done
Monmouth	55,538	3,461	Spreadsheet #2
Morris	50,861	810	Spreadsheet#4
Ocean	14,455	98	Spreadsheet#4	Done/Checked
Passaic	68,860	1,077	Spreadsheet #3
Salem	24,579	2,769	Spreadsheet#1
Somerset	27,162	1,659	Spreadsheet#1
Sussex	23,539	174	Spreadsheet#4	Done/Checked
Union	55,571	1,939	Spreadsheet #3
Warren	36,589	356	Spreadsheet#4

Thank you to our spreadsheet creation helpers for New Jersey

• Janet Demcoe

Sources

• "1880 Census: Volume 1. Statistics of the Population of the United States;" Table V: Population, by Race and by Counties: 1880, 1870, 1860; pages 401-402, New Jersey; image copy, United States Census Bureau, https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-01-population/1880_v1-13.pdf : accessed 30 Dec 2023.