Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — FACTS ABOUT THE CENSUS. [ARTICLE]

FACTS ABOUT THE CENSUS.

The census office has issued a bulletin concerning the urban population of the country. It shows that 28,411,698 people in the United States live in cities and towns of over 4,000 population. This is 37.3 per cent of the entire population, a gain of almost 5 per cent since the census of 1890, when the percentage was 32.9. Compared with the returns of 1880 the report shows a gain in the urban population of the country es more than a third in percentage and qf .considerably more than double in actual numbers. There were in 1880, 580 places of more than 4,000 persons each, with an aggregate population of 12,936,110, or 25.8 per cent of the then population. About one-half of the urban population of 1900 was contained in cities of over 100,000 persons. There were thirtyeight of those cities, with a combined population of 14,208,347. There are now 1,158 places of over 4,000 people in the country, as against 869 in 1890. The population of the District of Columbia is regarded as urban. In the other States and territories the percentage of people living In cities anil towns as compared with the entire population of the places ranges from 91.6 in Rhode Island to 2.5 in Indian Territory. The entire list is as follows:

Rhode Island ....91.6] Massachusetts . .86.9| New York 71.2] New Jersey 67.3 Connecticut 63.51 Pennsylvania .. .51.1! Illinois 31.01 California 48.9| Maryland 48.2| New Hampshire. .46.7] Ohio 44.8 Delaware 41.4] Colorado 41.2 l Michigan 37.2] Washington 36.4: Maine 36.2, Missouri 34.91 Wisconsin 34.3| Minnesota 81.01 Indiana 30.6| Utah 29.4! Montana 28.9] Wyoming 28.8, Oregon 27.6|i Hawaii ~.25.5;

Louisiana 23.1 {Vermont 21.0 iNebraaka 20.8 [lowa 20.5 Kentucky 19.7 Kansas 19.2 ] Florida 16.5 |Vlrglnla 16.5 (Texas 14.9 [Tennessee 14.1 Georgia 13.9 1 South Carolina ...11.7 iWest Virginia.... 11.6 1 Arizona 10.6 'Nevada 10.6 Alabama', 10.0 iNorth Carolina ...8.0 ISoutb Dakota .... 7.2 Arkansas 6.9 |ldaho .... ....... 6.2 : New Mexico 0.1 [North Dakota .... 5.4 Mississippi 5.3 [Oklahoma 5.0 [lndian Territory.. 2.5