Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — CITIES SHOW GREAT GAINS [ARTICLE]

CITIES SHOW GREAT GAINS

Census to Show About 52 Per Cent of Yanks Are Urban. Washington, Agu. 6. —For the first time in the history of the United States, the 1020 census returns will show that more people live in the cities and towns than in the rural territory, officials of the census burehu estimated. When the-final tabulations are completed, the officials deciared, they expect it to he shown that 51 or possibly 52 per cent of the total population of continental United States reside in urban districts. , . According to the official estimate of the total population recently made by Dr. J. A. Hill, chief statistician of the census bureau, which was 105,000,000, the number of people living in cities and towns, if the percentage is 51, would be 53,550,000 and 51,450,000 in rural territory.