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The mean center of the United States population is determined by the United States Census Bureau from the results of each national census. The Bureau defines it as follows:
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After moving roughly Template:Convert west by south during the 19th century, the shift in the mean center of population during the 20th century was less pronounced, moving Template:Convert west and Template:Convert south. Nearly 79% of the overall southerly movement happened between 1950 and 2000.
One occasional confusion is the misconception that the point splits the US population into two equal halves, such that half of Americans live east of the point, and the other half west of it, however, this is actually a property of the median center of US population , which is not weighted by geographic distance and lies in Gibson County, Indiana .
US Census
County
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1790
Kent County, Maryland Template:Efn
23 miles east of Baltimore
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n/a
1800
Howard County, Maryland
18 miles west of Baltimore
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52 miles (84 km)
1810
Loudoun County, Virginia
40 miles west-northwest of Washington, D.C.
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47 miles (75 km)
1820
Hardy County, West Virginia Template:Efn
16 miles east of Moorefield
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64 miles (103 km)
1830
Grant County, West Virginia Template:Efn
19 miles west-southwest of Moorefield
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51 miles (81 km)
1840
Upshur County, West Virginia Template:Efn
16 miles south of Clarksburg
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70 miles (113 km)
1850
Wirt County, West Virginia Template:Efn
23 miles southeast of Parkersburg
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70 miles (113 km)
1860
Pike County, Ohio
20 miles southeast of Chillicothe
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103 miles (166 km)
1870
Highland County, Ohio
48 miles northeast of Cincinnati
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54 miles (87 km)
1880
Boone County, Kentucky
8 miles southwest of Cincinnati
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74 miles (119 km)
1890
Decatur County, Indiana
20 miles east of Columbus
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61 miles (99 km)
1900
Bartholomew County, Indiana
6 miles southeast of Columbus
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18 miles (30 km)
1910
Monroe County, Indiana
in the city of Bloomington
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50 miles (80 km)
1920
Owen County, Indiana
8 miles south-southeast of Spencer
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13 miles (20 km)
1930
Greene County, Indiana
3 miles northeast of Linton
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29 miles (46 km)
1940
Sullivan County, Indiana
2 miles east-southeast of Carlisle
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17 miles (27 km)
1950
Richland County, Illinois Template:Efn Clay County, Illinois Template:Efn
8 miles north-northwest of Olney Louisville
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54 miles (87 km)
1960
Clinton County, Illinois Template:Efn
6.5 miles northwest of Centralia
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58 miles (93 km)
1970
St. Clair County, Illinois
5 miles east-southeast of Mascoutah
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34 miles (55 km)
1980
Jefferson County, Missouri
0.3 mile west of DeSoto
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60 miles (96 km)
1990
Crawford County, Missouri
9.7 miles southeast of Steelville
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44 miles (71 km)
2000
Phelps County, Missouri
2.8 miles east of Edgar Springs
Template:Coord <ref name=press>2000 U.S. Population Centered in Phelps County, Mo. Template:Webarchive , a U.S. Census Bureau press release.</ref>
41 miles (66 km)
2010
Texas County, Missouri
2.7 miles northeast of Plato
Template:Coord <ref>Centers of Population for the 2010 Census , U.S. Census Bureau.</ref>
25 miles (40 km)
2020
Wright County, Missouri
15 miles northeast of Hartville
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12 miles (19 km)
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