Mexico, National Census, 1930
Images of the population schedules housed in the National Archives listing inhabitants of Mexico in 1930. This was the fifth census conducted after 1895. The images of the pages of the books are of two kinds: the front pages containing lines 1-50 and the back pages containing lines 51-100. If the back page of the census was blank, it not scanned. The searchable data currently covers the following states: Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán, and Zacatecas. If the desired locality is not found, search nearby localities listed. Either the locality was not filmed, i.e. the Federal District, or it is included in a link that contains multiple localities.
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Mexico, National Census, 1930
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What is in This Collection?
Population schedules consist of large sheets with rows and columns. The sheets are arranged in bundles by municipality and then by place, such as city, village, or ranch. The original schedules are at the National Archives (Archivo General de la Nación) in Mexico City. The records have been preserved on microfilm by the Genealogical Society of Utah
While earlier attempts were made to enumerate the Mexican population, the 1895 census was considered the first federal or national census. Beginning in 1900, censuses were conducted every 10 years. The 1930 census was conducted on May 15 and was the first census in which returns were processed centrally. Because of this, most of the sheets still exist. This census is widely recognized as one of Mexico’s best planned and executed censuses, and it is also the only one accessible to the public. Due to under counting and some record loss, primarily for the Federal District, the 1930 census covers about 78 percent of the population, not 90% as previously reported. (This figure is based on 12.8 million persons in the Ancestry.com database extracted from this census compared with a total population in 1930 for all of Mexico in 1930 of 16,552,722 (see Mexico Population 1930). Since the population of Mexico City was 1,029,000 in 1930, there were record losses in areas beyond the Federal District as well, accounting for another 2 million plus persons not covered in the database placed online by Ancestry.com in September 2011.
Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.
Reading These Records
These records are written in Spanish. For help reading them see:- Spanish Genealogical Word List
- Brigham Young University: Spanish Script Tutorial
- Reading Spanish Handwriting
- Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting - Introduction
- Registros Civiles y Parroquiales (In Spanish)
To Browse This Collection
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What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
- City or village and state where census was taken
- Head of household (jefe de la familia)
- Full name of each household member (nombre y apellido)
- Gender (sexo)
- Male (hombre)
- Female (mujer)
- Age (edad)
- Years (años)
- Months (meses)
- Days (dias)
- Marital status (estado civil)
- Single (soltero)
- Married civilly (casado por lo Civil)
- Married by the church (casado por la Iglesia)
- Common law union (union libre)
- Widow (viudo)
- Divorced (divorciado)
- Occupation (profesion u ocupacion)
- Birthplace of each person, if born in Mexico, the name of the state (lugar de nacimiento)
- Nationality (nacionalidad)
- Native language (idioma)
- Religion (religion)
Collection Content
Sample images
1930 Census Record
Collection Details
Language
Spanish
Location of Original Records
National Archives of Mexico
"México censo nacional, 1930." Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 5 June 2026. Citing Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografia e Informática. Archivo General de la Nación, Distrito Federal (National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information. National Archives, Distrito Federal).
