Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — INDIANA CENSUS SHOWS INCREASE [ARTICLE]

INDIANA CENSUS SHOWS INCREASE

Idiana’s population is 2,930,544 according to the 1920 census figures which were announced by the United States Census Bureau at Washington Saturday. The 1920 total indicates a gain of 229,668, or 8.5 per cent over 1910, when the population was 2,700,876. The bureau has not yet announced the rank of the state, so it is not known whether Indiana has advanced from ninth place, which was occupied by the state in 1910. Indiana -territory in 1800 ranked twenty-first among the states and territories and since that time has made steady advances in population. The growth in the early years of the territory was very rapid and in the decade from 1810 in 1820 the rate of increase in population was 500.2 per cent. The rate of increase gradually declined until in 1910 it was 7.2 per cent, the smallest in the history of the state. The largest numerical growth in population was during the decade from 1850 to 1860, when the increase was 362,012 and the state passed the 1,000,000 mark. ..The state passed beyond the 2,000,000 mark during the period from 1880 to 1890. The Census Bureau made an estimate of the 1920 population of the state in July and at that time placed the total figure at’ 2,854,167. The actual figures showed even a larger population than the census officials anticipated. Experts predict that the state will pass the 3,000,000 mark within a few years. 1