Crawford County, Pennsylvania


Census
1810 U.S. CENSUS


© 1998 Thomas L. Yoset

     The federal census taken in 1810 enumerated 6,176 inhabitants in Crawford County in 985 households. The name of only the head of each household was recorded. Free white household members were grouped by sex and then by age. The five age categories were as follows: under ten; ten through fifteen; sixteen through twenty-five; twenty-six through forty-four; and forty-five or over—the same as in the previous census. Two additional columns counted other free persons in the household (excluding untaxed Indians) and slaves. Column totals are shown in the chart below, with those from the 1800 census given for comparison. Asterisks indicate discrepancies from the official tally.1

town or
township		 males females others slaves Total
< 10 10-15 16-25 26-44 > 44 < 10 10-15 16-25 26-44 > 44
Meadville 79 46 30 48 26 89 34 35 46 14 10 0 457
Mead 158 49 73 74 55 139 65 68 64 35 5 1 786
Sadsbury 100 43 49 53 31 111 37 43 43 27 2 1 540
Fairfield 83 44 25 46 28 69 27 36 36 27 0 0 421
Fallowfield 123 38 38 47 44 109 45 41 47 18 1 0 551
Shenango 146 56 59 70 51 139 47 53 64 42 0 0 727
Conniott 54 23 18* 28 13 63 24 20 28 12 1 0 284*
Beaver 42 23 26 13 21 42 16 21 14 18 0 0 236
Cussewago 84 20 26 32 30 92 26* 20 39 14 0 0 383*
Venango 78 32 27 44 27 91 36 40 39 19 1 0 434
Rockdale 85 31 20 43 24 89 30 23 39 17 0 0 401
Bloomfield 21 11 13 11 8 14 7 12 10 7 0 0 114
Oil Creek 60 26 28 38 25 63 26 30 24 20 0 0 340
Wayne 120 30 44 46 37 82 39 41 44 19 0 0 502
Total 1233 472 476* 593 420 1192 459* 483 537 289 20 2 6176*

     The census returns for the county are transcribed here from Population Schedules of the Third Census of the United States, 1810 (National Arch., 1959), Microcopy No. 252, Roll 47. They commence with the following certification:
The whole of persons within my division consisting of Crawford County appears in a Schedule hereto annexed, as witness my hand this twentieth day of December 1810

Samuel Torbett assistant to the Marshall of Pennsylvania [signature]

1  In two instances, dittos marks [for 0s] were apparently counted as 1s, yielding an official total of 6,178.