Talk:Demographics of Alabama

Data in Age And Sex section
The numbers seem off, citation needed for "51.7% of Alabamians are female and 48.3% are male; there is a surplus of 600,000 women in the age range of 25–44."

Doing some quick calcs for a population of about 4,447,100 in 2000: a 600,000 excess of women over men in age range 25-44 would produce a percent difference of 43.25% men, 56.75% women (1,923,550 men and 2,523,550 women in total population) unless other age brackets are equally wildly skewed towards men. Thus, the "600,000 excess of women" number does not appear mathematically sound. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5ht2a (talk • contribs) 14:58, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Racial Demographics
Somewhere it should say that these numbers do not include natives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mltam (talk • contribs) 17:33, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Some census figures from ADAH


 * 1820: White= 96,245; Black= 48,082 (of which 633 free)
 * 1830: White= 190,406; Black= 119,121 (of which 1,572 free)
 * 1840: White= 335,185; Black= 255,571 (of which 2,039 free)
 * 1850: White= 426,514; Black= 345,109 (of which 2,265 free)
 * 1860: White= 526,271; Black= 437,770 (of which 2,690 free)
 * 1870: White= 521,384; Black= 475,510 aaliyah
 * 1880: White= 662,185; Black= 600,103
 * 1890: White= 833,718; Black= 678,489
 * 1900: White= 1,001,152; Black= 827,307
 * 1910: White= 1,228,832; Black= 908,282
 * 1920: White= 1,447,031; Black= 900,652
 * 1930: White= 1,700,844; Black= 944,834
 * 1940: White= 1,849,097; Black= 983,290
 * 1950: White= 2,079,591; Black= 979,617
 * 1960: White= 2,283,609; Black= 980,271
 * 1970: White= 2,533,831; Black= 903,467
 * 1980: White= 2,783,000; Black= 996,000
 * 1990: White= 2,975,837; Black= 1,020,677
 * 2000: White= 3,188,102; Black= 1,138,726

So from say, the mid 1860s to the mid 1880's African-Americans made up about 48% of the population. This is slightly different than "Until the early twentieth century, blacks made up half of Alabama's population." - I'm amending the paragraph. Much more could be said about settlement patterns. To me, saying that "Alabamians of British ancestry are numerically dominant in Huntsville, Auburn, and some suburbs of Mobile and Birmingham." doesn't really say much at all. At the least a more specific citation is needed.

Should this subarticle exist?
I think that it would be better to have this information back in the main article and not as a seperate article. The Demographics section was not very long, and shouldn't new subarticles only be created if the section is very, very long? - BSveen 19:36, July 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * It seemed the section was disproportionately long, especially just to restate a list of numbers that are easily available (and officially maintained) at census.gov. A summary of Alabama's demographics definitely belongs on the main page, but if there's going to be a lot of detail, my opinion is a subpage is the place for it. Dystopos 20:07, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 one external links on Demographics of Alabama. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131019160532/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php to http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20071127094118/http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris.pdf to http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 18:59, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

2020 Census?
Why does the 2020 Census information only list race? And why does it do it by county and not give information for the whole state. Every single one of those listings might be appropriate on the 67 Wikipedia pages of every county. This page is Demographics of Alabama. I think there is more to the 2020 Census data than just race. And even so, there is no total for the state, only the change between 2000 and 2005? This is a terrible article, truly. Maybe if I have an hour to kill I'll add up all the county data and just add that. But someone should probably change the 2020 Census data for Alabama. 108.39.196.77 (talk) 21:44, 11 March 2024 (UTC)