Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Michigan Massachusetts Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico New York.... North Carolina North Dakota. Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina. Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia West Virginia. Wisconsin Wyoming the census of Porto Rico, taken in 1899 under the direction of the War Department. RANK OF STATES AND TERRITOFIES, The rank of the states and territories in 1910 was as follows: Director Durand issued the following statement in explanation of the result of the enumeration: There has been a very wide disparity in the rate of growth of different states during the past decade-a more marked disparity than has appeared at any other Uneven census for a long time. The range is from a decrease of three-tenths Growth. The country is plainly marked off in broad groups of states, according of 1 per cent in Iowa to an increase of 120 per cent in Washington. to the differences in the rate of increase. The states showing the lowest rates of increase, falling below 10 per cent, are five in the great central section of the country, namely, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, the three northern New England States and Maryland and Delaware. The states showing the next higher rates of Increase, betwen 10 and 20 per cent, lie adjacent to these showing the lowest rate, and include, in the Middle West, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas, and, on the other hand, a great belt of Southern states, namely, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia., Alabama and Mississippi. States which show an increase of from 20 to 30 per cent, and which, therefore, exceed the average rate of increase for the United States, are, for the most part, the great manufacturing states of the northeastern section of the country, including Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia; the only other states increasing between 20 and 30 per cent are Arkansas and Texas. The states which show an increase exceeding 30 per cent are, with the exception of New Jersey and comprising fully one-third of the area of the United States. Florida, all located in the West, and make up a solid belt and Utah had rates of increase between 30 and 50 per cent, while North Dakota, Wyoning, Oregon, Nevada, California, New Mexico and Arizona increased between South Dakota, Colorado 50 and 100 per cent, and Oklahoma, Idaho and Washington more than 100 per cent. The rate of increase during the ten years 1900 to 1910 was greater than during the previous decade in twenty-six of the forty-nine states, fifteen of these being west of the Mississippi River. The increase during the last decade was less than during the previous one in twenty-three states, sixteen of which are east of the Mississippi River. The greatest change in the rate of growth is found in the three Pacific Coast states and Nevada and New Mexico, all of which grew far faster during the past ten years than during the preceding. Growth of Grand Divisions. The Census Bureau divides the country into the following nine geographical divisions: First, New England; second, Middle Atlantic States, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; third, East North Central States, Ohio, Indiana, West North Central States, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Illinois, Michigan and lantic States, from Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas; fifth, South AtWisconsin; fourth, sixth, East South Central States, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi; sevDelaware and Maryland to Florida, including West Virginia; enth, West South Central States, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas; eighth, Mountain States, and ninth, Pacific States. The states included in the first four divisions named may be referred to as the Northern Section, those in the South Atlantic, East South Central and West Scuth Central as the Southern Section and those in the Mountain and Pacific as the Western Section. The population of these nine geographic divisions in 1910 is as follows: England, 6,552,681; Middle Atlantic, 19 315,892; East North Central, 18,250,621; West North Central, 11.637,921; South Atlantic, 12,194,895; East South Central, 8,409.901; West South Central, 8,734,534; Mountain, 2,633,517: Pacific, 4,192,304. New of the Northern Section is 55,757,115; Southern Section, 29,389,330; Western Section, 6,825.821. The population The per cents of increase from 1900 to 1910 in the geographic divisions are as follows: New England, 17.2 per cent; Middle Atlantic, 25: East North Central, 14.2; West North Central, 12.5; South Atlantic, 16.8; East South Central, 11.4; West South Central, 34.5: Mountain, 57.3; Pacific, 73.5. The increase was 17.7 per cent in the Northern Section, 19.8 per cent in the Southern Section and 66.8 per cent in the Western Section. The per cents of increase from 1890 to 1900 were for the main geographic divisions as follows: 18.6: West North Central, 15.8; South Atlantic, 17.9; East South Central, 17.4; West New England, 19 per cent; Middle Atlantic, 21.6: East North Central, South Central, 37.8; Mountain, 38, and Pacific, 28. During that decade the population of the Northern Sections increased 19.4 per cent, Southern Section 22.4 per cent and Western Section 32 per cent. The fact that the rate of increase for the country as a whole was greater from 1900 to 1910 than during the preceding decade was due entirely to the added rate of growth in the Middle Atlantic. Mountain and Pacific divisions. other divisions the increase during the last decade was less than during the previous In all six of the POPULATION OF STATES AND TERRITORIES, 1800 TO 1850. one. States and Territories. Alabama Alaska Arizona 1800. 1810. 1820. 127,901 1830. Arkansas California 92,597 Colorado と Connecticut Delaware 64,273 72,674 72.749 76.748 78,085 91,532 District of Columbia 14,093 24,023 33,039 39.834 43,712 51,687 Florida 34.730 54,477 87.445 Georgia 516,823 691,392 Hawaii 906,185 Idaho Totals... 31,443,321 38,558,371 50,155,783 62,979, 7C6) *76,303,387) †92,284,139 Inclusive of 91.2.9 persons in the military and naval service of the United States. Excluding Porto Rico. The total for Continental United States, excluding Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, is 91,972,267. Including Porto Rico the total is 93,402,151. POPULATION OF CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES. The population of cities of 25,000 or more inhabitants in 1910 was 28,508,007, or 31 per cent of the total population. In 1900 the population of cities of 23.000 inhab itants or more was 25.9 per cent of the total, and in 1890, 22.2 per cent. Later statistics will probably show that more than 45 per cent of the population of the country is urban-that is, in places of 2,500 inhabitants or more. In the North the proportion of the total population in the cities of 25,000 inhabitants was 40.6 per cent in 1910, 34.2 per cent in 1900 and 28.6 per cent in 1890. In the south the corresponding rer cents are 12.8 per cent in 1910, 10.1 per cent in 1900 and 9.5 per cent in 1890. In the West the proportion living in cities of 25,000 inhabitants or more is 31.5 per cent in 1910, as compared with 25.2 in 1900 and 22.6 per cent in 1890. The population living in cities of 25.000 or more inhabitants has increased much more rapidly than that in the rest of the country. The population of such cities in 1910 was 28,508,007, as compared with 21,078,189 for the same cities in 1900, the increase being 7.429,818, or 35.2 per cent. The population in the rest of the country, including smaller cities and rural districts in 1910, was 63,464.259, as compared with 54,916,386 in 1900, the increase being 8,547,873, or only about a million more than the increase of the cities alone. The per cent of increase was 15.6, or less than half the rate shown by cities of 25,000 inhabitants. Stated another way, 46.5 per cent of the increase in the population of the United States from 1900 to 1910 occurred in cities having 25,000 inhabitants or more. While there has been probably a somewhat greater difference between the rate of growth or urban population and of rural population during the last decade than during that preceding, the difference was not as great as during the decade of 1880 to 1890, or as it was in the earlier decades. The conclusion cannot, therefore, be safely drawn that there is in any broad sense an increasing tendency by the population to leave the country and go to the city. The decrease in rural population in the Middle States is by no means due to lack of prosperity, as the agricultural statistics of the Census Bureau show an extraordinary increase in the value of farm lands and farm property throughout this section, and will doubtless indicate a great increase in the income of the farmers when the statistics are compiled. Taking the country as a whole, there are 2,925 counties, of which 798, or 27.3, decreased in population during the last decade. 1900 1890 Kansas City, Mo. New Haven, Conn. New Orleans. La. New York, N. Y Paterson, N. J. Philadelphia, Pittsburg. Providence, R. I. Worcester, Mass. 8 Estimated population in 1890 of the 1Decrease. Annexed to Pittsburg in 1907. area of present New York: the population of New York as it existed in 1890 was 1,515,301. Includes population of Allegheny as given above. CITIES OF FROM 25,000 TO 100,000 POPULATION. Cities. 1900 to 1890 to 1910. 1900. 1890. 1910. 1900. Akron, Ohio.. 27,601 Allentown, Pa... 51.913) 35,416) 25,228 46.6 40.4 Altoona, Pa. 52,127 38,973 30.337 83.8 28.5 Amsterdam, N. Y.. 31,267 20,929 17,336 49.4 20.7 Atlantic City, N. J.. 44,461 27,838 13,055 59.7 113.2 Auburn, N. Y... 34,668 30,345 25,858 14.2 17.4 Augusta, Ga. 37,826 39,441 33,300 *4.1 18.4 Aurora, Ill. 29,807 24,147 19,688 23.4 22.6 Austin, Tex. 29,860 22,258 14,575 34.2 52.7 Battle Creek, Mich.. 25.267 18,563 13,197 86.1 40.7 Bay City, Mich. 45.166. 27.628 27,839 63.5 *0.8 Bayonne, N. J.. 55,545 32,722 19,033 69.7 71.9 Berkeley, Cal. 40,434 13,214 5,101 206.0 159.0 Binghamton, N. Y.. 48,443 39.647 35,005 22.2 13.3 Bloomington, Ill. 25,768 23,286 20,484 10.7 13.7 Prockton, Mass. 56,878 40,068 27,294 42.0 46.8 Brookline, Mass. 27.792 19.935 12,103 39.4 64.7 Butte, Mont. 39.165 80.470 10,723 28.5 184.2 Camden, N. J......... 94,538 75,935 58,313 24.5 30.2 Canton, Ohio 50,217 30,667 26,189 Cedar Rapids, Iowa.... 63.7 17.1 32,811 25.656 18,020 27.9 42.4 Charleston, S. C..... 58.833 55,807 54,955 5.4 1.6 Charlotte, N. C..... 34,014 18.091 11,557 88.0 56.5 Chattanooga, Tenn. 44,604 30,154 29,100 47.9 8.6 32,452 34,072 27,909 4.8 22.1 |