Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1920 — POPULATION CENTER TRAVELS EASTWARD BELIEF [ARTICLE]

POPULATION CENTER TRAVELS EASTWARD BELIEF

The decennial census, now being taken, will reveal that the center of population of the _United States has moved eastward not toward the west or the south as commonly predicted. J. A. Hill, statistician of the census bureau, made the statement in an address to the press club of Washington Thursday night The 1910 cehsus showed the center of population to be in Bloomington, Indi Ana, and ill 1900 the center was some fifty miles eastward, or near Columbus, Indiana. Preliminary reports thus far received, said Mr. Hill, while revealing the eastward movement, do not contain sufficient figures to make any estimate of the extent of the eastward movement. After thd war movement to the eastern cities together with the wartime growth of the eastern industrial centers, the census statistician said, have more than counteracted the normal westward movement of population.