Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — 105,683,108 IS U. S. POPULATION [ARTICLE]

105,683,108 IS U. S. POPULATION

Actual Figures Are Given Ort By the Census Bureau. IS INCREASE OF 13,710,842 Does Not Include 12,260,000 In Outlying Possessions, , Alaska, Nor Those In Foreign Service. Washington, Oct. 8. —The total population of continental United States, is 105,683,108, an Increase of 13,710,842, or 14.9 per cent. . This figure does not include approximately 12,250,00 people living in th® country's outlying possessions. The population of Alaska and the total classed under the military and naval service abroad are yet to be announced. There are today in the United! States 6,459,998 farms, an increase of 08,496 over the number in 1910, or at gain of 1.5 Percentage Increase Is Down. , The relative .growth of the natlom from 1900 to 1910 was 21 per cent, butt this rate Is expected to be cut to at least 15 per cent, this year chiefly, census bureau officials say, through page of immigration during the warand by the heavy emigration during; that period. One of the striking developments of this year's census was the relative growth of cities and industrial centers, as compared with the farming regions. Rural growth In the last ten year® was only a third as great as it was it® the previous decade, while the citie® nearly maintained their 1900-1910 rat® of growth. ■ Forty Weeks’ Work. The census b”*-.*n to date has spent 40 weeks in Supervising the entHneffttion and tabulation of the country’® millions. A similar period elapsed before |he country’s population wa® made public in 1910. - ' This year, however, all minor civil divisions and Incorporated places of each state have been made public with the announcement df the United States total, while in 1910 the censu® bureau's objective was to arrive at the total as soon as possible, leaving five states and their county civil division® to be announced later. The work of the thirteenth census did not begin until April 5 and ended December 1910. Population by States. The present individual populations of the various states and the figure®' for the previous census are us. follows: ' "VL ■ •’ 1620. wia v State. Population. Population. New York 10,384,144 9,113,616 Pennsylvania 8,720,169 7.606,U1 Illinois . 6,486,098 6,638.6*11 Ohio 6,760,368 4,787,1X1 Texas 4,661,027 8,896.643 Massachusetts 8,861,616 8,666,41 S Michigan • 3,667,222 2,810,178 California 3,426,636 2,877,64® Missouri 3,408,647 8,298.83® New Jersey 8,166:374 B,6ff.m Indiana 2,930,644 2,700,87® Georgia 2,898,966 2,600,121 Wisconsin 2,681,839 2,333,86® North Carolina ....a.. 2,666,486 2,206,287] Kentucky 2,416,013 2,289,905. lowa 2,403,630 3,234,771 Alabama 2,347,296 2,138,08® Tennessee 2,337,469 2,184,78® Minnesota 2,386.371 2,076,70® Virginia M .. 2,306,361 2,061,61> Oklahoma 2,027,464 1,667.166, Louisiana 1,797,798 1,666,8881 Mississippi 1,789,182 1,797,11® Kansas 1,769,186 1,690,949> Arkansas 1,750,996 1,674,44® South Carolina 1,683,662 1.616,40® West Virginia 1,463,610 1,221,11® Nebraska 1,396,503 1,192,21® Maryland 1,449,610 1,296,84 ft Connecticut 1,880,386 1,114,76 ft Washington 1,366,316 1.141,990 Florida 966,296 762,61® Colorado 930,376 799,024 i Oregon 783,286 672,76 ft Maine' a . 767,996 742,871’ North Dakota 646,730 677,06 ft South Dakota 686,839 683,888 Rhode Island 604,879 643,61®. Montana 647,698 376,063' Utah 449,446 878,361 New Hampshire 448.083 430,67® Disk of Columbia 437,671 381,06® Idaho 481,828 826,69® New Mexico *. 360,247 827,801 Vermont 862,421 866,96 ft Arizona 333,278 204,254 Delaware 228,008 202,822 Wyoming 194,402 146,966 "Nevada 77,407 8L876