Editing Alta California (section)

===Population statistics of Alta California Province===
The data in this table includes California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming.{{#tag:ref|Almost the entire Spanish and mixed-race population lived in present-day California.|group="note"}}
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Year||Pop Spaniards/Mexican/[[Criollo people|Criollo]]||% pop||Mestizo, Castizo and other castes||% pop||Amerindians||% pop||Total Population||Inhabitants per Sq.League
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| 1769
!+ 300 <br /> (first foundation in Spanish California)<ref name="Coulson, Joyce 2003">{{cite web|first1=David P. |last1=Coulson |first2=Linda |last2=Joyce |title=United States state-level population estimates: Colonization to 1999 |date= August 2003 |publisher=USDA |page=33 |url=https://bivir.uacj.mx/Reserva/Documentos/rva2005128.pdf }}</ref>  
!-
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| 1779
!500<ref name="Casado 2007">{{cite book|author= Matt A. Casado|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3atbDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT100|title=California Hispana: Descubrimiento, Colonización Y Anexión Por Los Estados|date=2017|page=| publisher=Palibrio |isbn = 9781506518763}}</ref>
!-
!
!-
!
!-
!
!
|-
| 1783
!1,000<ref name="Casado 2007"/>
!-
!
!-
!
!-
!
!
|-
| 1790<br /> ([[Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo|Revillagigedo]] census)<ref name="Revillagigedo Census">{{cite web|title=New Spain (Mexico), 1790 Statistics Charts |date=24 December 2013|access-date=23 December 2017 |url=http://vsalgs.org/stnemgenealogy/nwspstat.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224102407/http://vsalgs.org/stnemgenealogy/nwspstat.html |archive-date=24 December 2013}}</ref>
! [[N/A]]<br /> (by the late 1780s there were 1,137 Spaniards in Alta California<ref name="Casado 2007"/>)
!-
!18,780
!09,8% (1793)<ref name="Colegio de Mexico">[http://aleph.org.mx/jspui/bitstream/56789/29809/1/17-067-1968-0327.pdf "Consideraciones sobre la población de la Nueva España (1793-1810)"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731104825/http://aleph.org.mx/jspui/bitstream/56789/29809/1/17-067-1968-0327.pdf}}, ''El Colegio de Mexico'', Mexico, Retrieved on 24 July 2017.</ref>
!2,052–300,000<ref name="California museum">{{cite web|author= |url=http://explore.museumca.org/goldrush/curriculum/1stcalifornians/resourcesix.htm |title=Resource 6-1a: California Population by Ethnic Groups, 1790–1880 |publisher=Museum of California }}</ref>
!89.9% (1793)<ref name="Colegio de Mexico" />
!20,871
!10
|-
|1800
!1,800<ref name="Thompshon 2006">{{cite book|author= Linda Thompson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U21xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33|title=Los españoles en América: Spanish In America |publisher=Rourke Publishing|date=2006|page=33|isbn = 9781606941836}}</ref>
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
|-
|1810
!2,000<ref name="Casado 2007"/>
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!250,000<br />(19,000 of whom were baptised)<ref name="Casado 2007"/>
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
|-
|1820
!3,270<ref name="Casado 2007"/>
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
|-
|1838
!4,000 whites<br />(mostly being of Spanish origin and another 500 being foreigners; Faxon D. Atherton estimations (1982:206)<ref name="National Historic Trail"/>)
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A<br /> (in 1836, 29,000 people lived in Alta California according to ''El Diario Oficial'' of Mexico City (1836:180)<ref name="National Historic Trail"/>
!N/A
|-
|1845
!7,300 <br /> (Weber estimations (1982:206),<ref name="National Historic Trail">{{cite web|author= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DNdqD66fugC&pg=PA40|title=National Historic Trail Feasibility Study and Environmental Assessment: Old Spanish Trail |publisher=University of Minnesota. Government Publications Library|date=July 2001|page=40}}</ref> although other sources indicated that in 1846 11,500 Californians were of Spaniard or Mexican descent<ref name="Other Californians">{{cite web|title=California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849 to 1900. Other Californians |website=[[Library of Congress]] |url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/california-first-person-narratives/articles-and-essays/early-california-history/other-californians/ |access-date=11 August 2022 }}</ref>)
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
!150,000<ref name="California museum"/>
!N/A
!N/A
!N/A
|}