The 1920 Santo Domingo Census was conducted from 19 January to 24 December 1920, during the administration of the general Thomas Snowden, American governor of the Santo Domingo following the American occupation of the Dominican Republic.
This was the first census done in the land of the former Dominican Republic since the Spanish colonial period, although the Catholic Church had done several parish censuses; the 1920 census collected information regarding on sex, age, fertility, race, religion, marital status, nationality, and housing.
| General results | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Quantity | % | |||||
| Total population | 894,665 | 100 | |||||
| Men | 446,384 | 49.9 | |||||
| Women | 448,281 | 50.1 | |||||
| Regions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | 501,358 | 56.04% | |||||
| South | 246,655 | 27.57% | |||||
| Department of Santo Domingo | 146,652 | 16.39% | |||||
| Results on Nationality and Race | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Quantity | % | |||||
| Dominicans | 845,145 | 94.5 | |||||
| Foreigners | 49,520 | 5.5 | |||||
| from Haiti | 28,258 | 3.1 | |||||
| from the West Indies | 8,305 | 0.9 | |||||
| from Puerto Rico | 6,069 | 0.7 | |||||
| from Spain | 1,443 | 0.2 | |||||
| from the United States (excluding marines) | 891 | 0.1 | |||||
| from Cuba | 741 | 0.1 | |||||
| from another country | 3,813 | 0.4 | |||||
| Whites | 223,144 | 24.9 | |||||
| Mestizos and yellows | 444,587 | 49.7 | |||||
| Blacks | 226,934 | 25.4 | |||||
| Results on Creeds | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion | Quantity | % | |||||
| Catholic | 882,425 | 98.632 | |||||
| Protestant | 11,927 | 1.333 | |||||
| Jewish | 55 | 0.006 | |||||
| another | 258 | 0.029 | |||||