Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — CENSUS REPORT BEATS RECORD [ARTICLE]

CENSUS REPORT BEATS RECORD

Volume Prepared in Much Leas Time than Predecessors. The director of the census "has issued the first half of the final census report on population, showing the aggregate population of the United States by States and territories, the density of ppfnilation, the center of population in its medium point, the population of Alaska and of the Hawaiian Islands, the number of Representatives apportioned under the recent act of Congress, and also the population of the States and territories by the elties having 25,000 innabitahts or more in 1900, the increase of population in the same, and the population of incorporated cities, towns, villages and boroughs Ift the year 1900. This report is issued in the form of a monograph and comprises about 500 pages. The other portion of the final report on population will be issued during the early fall, putting the entire volume in the hands of the public at least four years in advance of any previous census. Most of the features of the volume have received attention from the press heretofore. It shows that excluding the District of Columbia, which is in effect a municipality, Rhode Island, with 407 inhabitants to the square mile in 1900, is the most densely settled State in the Union, while Massachusetts comes next, with not quite 349 inhabitants to the square mile. New Jersey, with a little more than 250 inhabitants to the square mile, is the third State in point of density of population, while Connecticut, with somewhat more 187 inhabitants to the square mile, occupies fourth place. Four other States had more than one hundred inhabitants to the square mile in 1900, namely, New York, with 152.6 inhabitants; Pennsylvania, with 140.1 inhabitants; Maryland, with 120.5 inhabitants, and Ohio, with 102 inhabitants to the square mile. Alaska has, on the average, but onetenth of one person to the square mile, and Nevada has only four-tenths of one person to the square mile. Wyoming has not quite one inhabitant to the square mile, while Arizona, New Mexico, Montana and Idaho have less than two persons to the square mile. The newly acquired territory of Hawaii shows an averag? density of population of not quite 24 persons, ranking in this respect between Maine, with, 23.2 persons, and Arkansas, with 24.7 persons to the square mile.