Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — FIGURES FROM THE CENSUS. [ARTICLE]

FIGURES FROM THE CENSUS.

The Population of the Sixteen Counties of the Fifth Census District. The Census Bureau has officially announced the population by counties of the Fifth supervisor’s district of Indiana, which includes Jasper county, as follows: Counties. Population. ” Increase. Benton, 11,896 . ... 788 Carroll, 20,005 1.660 Cass, 31.112 3,505 Fulton. 16,695 2,394 Howard, 26,097 6,513 Jasper, 11,177 L7L3 LaPorte, 31,345 • 3,360. Marshall, 23,806 392 Miami, 25,552 1,439 Newton, 8,789 622 Porter, 18,008 781 Pulaski, 11,212 1,361 St. Joseph, 42,404 9,226 Stark, 7,333 2,227 White, 15,660 1,865 - The total population of the dis--trict is 327,909, an increase of 46,000, or 16.57 per cent. The population of eight of the largest towns in the district is given on one of our inside pages. The increase in Jasper county is a little more than 15 per cent. This is a little less than the average in the entire district, but is larger than in a majority of' the counties. Lake county’s per cent, of increase is the largest in the district, and its actual increase is the largest, with the exception of St. Joseph county. The great growth of the Chicago manufacturing suburbs, Hammond and East Chicago, accounts for the increase in Like county. Next to Cass county, Lake is now the most populous in the Tenth Congressional district and before another census year rolls around it will be way ahead of all of them.