Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-14
POPULATION OF MISSOURI.
Census Returns for All the Counties of the
state-A Total of 2,659, TAI, an Increase
of Nearly Half a Million in Ten Years
Rela

census Returns for All the Counties of the
state-A Total of 2, $3.50, IA, an Increase
OF Nearly Half n Million in Ten Years
Relative Growth of different Sections.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat has led the
metropolitan dalfes in the collection of CEN
sus figures. especially as regards Missouri.
our readers Will be Interested i'll the table
printed herewith. showing the present pop
ulaton of Missouri by counties. copied from
recent issue of that paper. The figures
have still to be verified by the SUI
perrin :endent of the Census. but hav-
ing been furnished by the super
Flsors of the various census districts
OF the State they are pra crically Official and
the final count at Washington can make
very little. if any. difference in the totals.
The only figures in doubt are those of the
population of st. Louis, but the police re-
count is now So nearly finished that the re-
suits can be very closely estimated, and
the official report is not likely to vary IN uch
from the total in the table which was fur
nlsned by supervisor Weigel.
souri, has increased 49i.65J-a,b ,ut % per
cent-during the past decade. The percent
age of increase from 1870 to 1851 IS;
from 1857 to 1870 1t WAS A, and from 1859 TO
1860 it was 70. But, while the ratio of in
crease has naturally fallen lower with each
successive decade, the actual increase in
numbers since 1850 has been ut the rate
of 100000 every ten years, the population Of
the State in 1850 having been 6S2.04f in 1861.
1ls2'l2; in 1870, LIZ! 295, and in 1851, 1853 o9.
This shows a steady, regular and, at the
same time, rapid growth.
Although the growth of the State a
whole has been steady, there is a remark
able disparity in the relative increase of
population in various sections of the State.
Leaving out the st. Louis and Kansas City
districts. the southwestern corner of the
State is far in advance of any other section,
showing an increase of 1923 per cent The
southeastern counties come next with
average increase of 30 per cent; then the
west central, 20 per cent; the east central,
1Ol2 per cent; northeast ern, 123 per cent,
and the northwestern. GA per cent. 1t is IN
q IN
mas been the growth of the country south of
the Missouri than north of that river. Leav-
ing out st. Louis and Jacks on County, which
1t would be unfair to include in this COM
parison. the country south of the river has
now a population of 1,161, 405, increase
1880. The present population of the
country north of the river is 99p,5l6 an in
crease of 81, 1862, per cent. over 1850.
In the latter territory, too, is included Bu- D.
chanan County, which alone shows an in
crease of 5000 1t should be stated, how
Is much less than that of the southern,
that they are much more thickly settled;
and there is, therefore, much less room for
growth.
In point of population Jackson county
heads the list. with Buchanan next, then
Greene, ST. L ruiS. Saline, Boone, Vernon,
Pettis and Macon in the order named, All
habitants. As regards ratio of increase,
Howell county leads with 10l per cent, and
jackson county next with "a per cent. An
drew Holt. Howard. johnson, Lewis, Mer-
Ger, Pike Platte, Scotland and Warren
counties show slight decreases.
Following is the table showing popuia-
zion of the State by counties for 1881 and
1890