The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-17
Connecticut's Population.

The official figures of the census give
Connecticut a population of 1862 a
gain of 123, 558 in the last 10 years; 81
towns have gained in population and SO
have lost. Newtown, with 3539, has lost
474. Weston, 772, has lost l46. STRAIT
ford, 260S, has been robbed of its terrific
ry by Bridgeport and lost 1913. Monroe,
1914, has lost 1863. East0n, 1901, has lost
IA. Brookfield, $50, has lost 1853. There
were three towns with less than 1000
population in the county in 1880; now
there are five. The cities and larger
towns have more than made good the ru-
raj loss. Bridgeport, As, S66, by annexa-
ton and immigration, gained l9,71S.
Danbury, 19,473, gained 1907, Bethel,
340l, gained GA. Huntington, 40O6,
gained, principally in Shelton, 1907.
Fairfield, 1868, gained 100. Norwalk,
17,747, gained 379l. Redding, 1916, gain
ed 6. Stamford, 1900, gained 4403.
Trumbull, 1853, gained 1870. Westport,
37l5, gained 23S. Outside the county,
New Milford, 1917, gained 10. Wood
bury, 1915, lost 334. Roxbury, 936, lost
IA. BIidgewater, 6l7, lost 81. South
gained 1869. New Britain, 1907,
gained 502S. New Haven, sc, o45, gained
%, 1913. Meriden, 25,423, gained 1888.
Waterbury, 33,202, gained 1882. New
London, 1857, gained 1920. Norwich,
23,04S, gained 1905: Windham,
1902, gained 176S. Middetown, To-
POS, gained 3473. Windham county, for
the first time in its history, has a town
of over 10000 people. Litchfield and
MiddleseX counties have none yet, their
largest towns being Torrington, G049 i;
Vernon, SS0S. MiddleseX county has but
one such town, MiddletOwn, 10 POS Fair
field county has five, more than any 9TH
er of the eight counties, Bridgeport, Dan
bury, Norwalk, Stamford, Greenwich,
10, 1871; New London county has two,
New London and Norwich; New Haven
county four, New Haven, Meriden, Wa
terbury, Ansonia l0, 342; Hartford coun-
ty has Hartford and New Britain. Only
eight of the 26 towns in Litchtield county
gained in population, illustrating anew
the rapid decline of the hill towns. On
ly three towns gained of the l3 in Toll
land county; eight of the lG in Windham
county gained, seven of the 20 in New
London county, eight of the Is in Mid
dlesex county, II of the % in Fairfield
county, Is of the 26 in New Haven coun-
ty and 10 of the 20 in Hartford county.
The towns that gain in population are al
most entirely manufacturing towns and
the towns that lose are farming towns.
except as in the case of Sprague, New
London county, where the collapse of
the Baltic mills caused a loss of 2101 in
10 years. How thoroughly the cities
have overtOpped the country towns is
shown by the statement that New Haven,
sc, 045, has almost an eighth of the States
whole population, 746, 258, while the Is
towns with over 10000 people, of the 1873
in the State, New Haven, 86,O45; Hart
ford, 1920; Bridgeport, 1886; Water
bury, 80, POP; Meriden, 25, 1923; Norwich,
23,04S; Danbury, 19,473; New Britain,
19,007; Norwalk, 17,747; Stamford, 10,
700; Middletown, Is, POS; New London,
1897; Ansonia, 1882; Greenwich, 10,
131; Windham, 10,032, these Is cities
and towns, all we have in the State with
over 10000 population, contain over 400,
600 people, or more than half of the
States whole 74G, 25S. How entirely the
State is at the mercy of its cities and
large towns, as far as mere numbers are
concerned! Less than tenth, Is, of the
whole number of towns, 16S, contain
more than one half of our population.
And these 10 towns are to keep on grow
ing in wealth and numbers, in all proba-
bility, while the majority of towns con-
tinue to decline.