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State motor-vehicle registrations—1953^[1]
[Compiled for calendar year from reports of State authorities^[2]—Table MV-1, issued May 1954]

State	Motor vehicles															Motorcycles
	Automobiles			Buses			Trucks			All motor vehicles			Comparison of total motor-vehicle registrations, 1952–53			Private and commercial	Publicly owned[3]
	Private and commercial (including taxicabs)	Publicly owned[3]	Total	Private and commercial	Publicly owned[3]	Total	Private and commercial[4]	Publicly owned[3]	Total	Private and commercial	Publicly owned[3]	Total	Total 1952 registrations	Increase or decrease, 1953	Percentage change
Alabama	[5]663,506	2,303	665,809	2,427	3,669	6,096	[5]180,626	7,179	187,805	846,559	13,151	859,710	777,285	82,425	10.6	6,840	162
Arizona	272,119	2,109	272,228	974	691	1,665	78,657	4,469	83,306	351,750	7,449	359,199	330,054	29,145	8.8	3,405	81
Arkansas	353,179	853	354,032	888	2,874	3,762	167,627	3,393	171,020	521,694	7,120	528,814	505,281	23,533	4.7	2,211	6
California	4,692,553	21,364	4,713,917	7,389	5,021	12,410	736,140	41,946	778,086	5,436,082	68,331	5,504,413	5,154,326	350,087	6.8	50,727	2,528
Colorado	494,823	2,155	496,978	1,585	967	2,552	141,247	7,864	149,111	637,655	10,986	648,641	621,627	27,014	4.3	4,157	43
Connecticut	724,621	2,844	727,465	3,060	159	3,219	93,306	4,402	97,708	820,987	7,405	828,392	789,483	38,909	4.9	3,577	110
Delaware	106,228	766	106,994	476	28	504	25,599	873	26,472	132,303	1,667	133,970	122,232	11,738	9.6	579	155
Florida	1,083,240	3,276	1,086,516	1,880	4,122	6,013	199,188	8,875	208,063	1,284,308	16,284	1,300,592	1,178,682	121,910	10.3	16,280	425
Georgia	846,816	1,698	848,514	3,659	2,655	6,314	218,799	7,776	226,575	1,069,274	12,129	1,081,403	1,021,722	59,681	5.8	7,226	276
Idaho	218,721	825	219,546	[6]499	552	1,051	[6]79,421	4,044	83,465	298,641	5,421	304,062	290,529	13,533	4.7	2,137	26
Illinois	2,574,918	5,395	2,580,313	6,560	3,409	9,969	355,341	13,201	368,542	2,936,819	22,005	2,958,824	2,847,961	110,863	3.9	23,030	605
Indiana	1,323,187	3,384	1,326,571	7,714	1,159	8,873	267,721	7,586	275,307	1,598,622	12,129	1,610,751	1,529,876	80,875	5.3	18,319	274
Iowa	911,044	2,228	913,272	1,235	3,207	4,442	200,602	7,235	207,837	1,112,881	12,670	1,125,551	1,090,358	35,193	3.2	9,740	85
Kansas	721,657	2,982	724,639	876	1,105	1,981	222,313	8,144	230,457	944,846	12,231	957,077	921,476	35,601	3.9	8,266
Kentucky	706,714	1,996	708,710	2,673	1,710	4,383	188,697	5,694	194,391	898,084	9,400	907,484	855,929	51,555	6.0	5,737
Louisiana	632,321	2,904	635,225	4,126	633	4,759	171,140	4,989	176,129	807.587	8,526	816,113	755,590	60,523	8.0	5,041	169
Maine	227,927	989	228,916	1,046	359	1,405	[7]63,137	3,105	66,242	292,110	4,453	296,563	287,525	9,038	3.1	1,840	19
Maryland	695,711	3,055	698,766	4,535	336	4,871	112,967	3,353	116,260	813,153	6,744	819,897	779,545	40,352	5.2	5,366	66
Massachusetts	1,237,638	4,771	1,242,409	5,042	86	5,128	163,737	10,525	174,262	1,406,417	15,382	1,421,799	1,376,058	45,741	3.3	4,282
Michigan	2,418,816	6,643	2,425,459	7,135	3,733	10,868	329,904	16,891	346,795	2,755,855	27,267	2,783,122	2,566,628	216,494	8.4	19,562	359
Minnesota	1,040,962	2,149	1,043,111	4,171	2,538	6,709	215,430	7,872	223,302	1,260,563	12,559	1,273,122	1,217,201	55,921	4.6	9,945	67
Mississippi	380,923	534	381,457	2,812	2,448	5,260	164,879	5,129	170,008	548,614	8,111	556,725	524,062	32,663	6.2	2,615	15
Missouri	1,098,649	2,249	1,110,898	3,760	1,634	5,394	272,746	6,900	279,646	1,375,155	10,783	1,385,938	1,332,747	53,191	4.0	6,736	27
Montana	203,838	1,205	205,043	804	323	1,127	91,266	4,866	96,132	295,908	6,394	302,302	282,578	19,724	7.0	1,070
Nebraska	480,802	1,611	482,413	858	430	1,288	142,999	5,096	148,095	624,659	7,137	631,796	619,693	12,103	2.0	3,910	56
Nevada	80,109	615	80,634	259	166	425	23,486	2,100	25,586	103,764	2,881	106,645	94,178	12,467	13.2	1,124	25
New Hampshire	153,981	961	154,942	853	57	910	33,156	3,220	36,376	187,990	4,238	192,228	181,497	10,731	5.9	1,645
New Jersey	1,593,759	5,442	1,599,201	7,129	391	7,520	218,549	11,644	230,193	1,819,437	17,477	1,836,914	1,746,068	90,846	5.2	9.013	572
New Mexico	218,791	1,479	220,270	1,901	166	2,067	76,700	4,059	80,759	297,392	5,704	303,096	271,848	31,248	11.5	3,147	8
New York	3,672,809	14,112	3,686,921	11,221	6,733	17,954	445,720	25,900	471,620	4,129,750	46,745	4,176,495	3,980,527	195,968	4.9	18,278	1,161
North Carolina	986,946	3,767	990,713	2,606	9,697	12,303	241,488	12,500	253,988	1,231,040	25,964	1,257,004	1,171,015	85,989	7.3	8,342	215

1. For additional details of publicly owned vehicles and of trucks, buses, and trailers registered, see tables MV-7, 9, 10, and 11, respectively.
2. Data reported by the States were supplemented in some instances by information from other sources in order to present registrations as uniformly as possible. Where registration year is not more than 1 month removed from the calendar year, registrations year data are given. Where the registration year is more than 1 month removed, registrations are given for the calendar year.
3. Includes Federal, State, county and municipal vehicles. Vehicles owned by the military services are not included.
4. The following farm trucks, registered at a nominal fee and restricted to use in the vicinity of the owner’s farm, are not included in this table: Connecticut, 5,369; New Hampshire, 3,523; New Jersey, 9,561; New York, 12,967; Rhode Island, 1,997.
5. In Alabama a pickup truck that its a person’s sole means of transportation is registered at the passenger-car rate. The estimated number of pickup trucks has been deducted from reported passenger-car registrations and added to truck registrations.
6. Privately owned school buses are included with trucks.
7. Commercial full trailers are included with trucks.