New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-28
RAPID GROWTH OF CITIES.
URBAN POPULATION is NOW NEARLY ONE
THIRD OF THE WHOLE.
IN 44a CITIES OF 5000 OR MORE INHABITANTS
10 o3S e70 PEOPLE WERE LIVING LAST JUNE
WHERE THEY WE'RE DISTRIBUTED.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE THmUSE.l


Washington, April 26-Nearly 30 per cent OF inc
popuaton of the United states is contained in cities
each of which has 5000 or more inhabitants When
the statistics OF cities and towns with population Of
1000 TO 5000 shall have been compiled, 1t VIII prop
ably be found that the total urban population of the
country in 1890 very nearly one-thrd OF the
entire population In 1880 there 1874 cities and
towns in the United States each of which had pCpula-
tion of 1000 TO 5000 the total population OF all
being sG2 400 or about 3.71 per cent OF the enuTe
population of the country. In view OF the large
relative increase of population OF cities OF eooo UT
more inhabitants in the last decade, 1t Is not 10 DC
expected that the percentage of increase In the cueS
and towns which contain at least 1000 inhabitants
and less than 5000 will be smaller than 1t was IN
1880 OF cities which had 5000 or more Inhabitants
in 1890 there were 443 and they contained 2012 per
cent Of the entire population. This was an increase
in number of 1877 and in population OF G5o per cent
The largest increase Of population In cues Oh uo
class mentioned in any preceding decade was 80 per
cent between 1860 and 1870; from 1870 to 1850 the
increase was only 1.54 per cent In l10o inc uoUai
population Of cities in the United States was only l7I
A7o or 335 per cent Of the entire population.
OF the 1s235.67O inhabitants Of cities which con-
tanned population Of 5000 or more in 1890 o'9'o'-
400 or nearly one-haf were found In the North
Atlantic Division which comprises New England New
York New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and eleven Oh
the twentv-six cities each of which had 100000 or
twelve States which comprise what the Census bureau
STYLES the North Central Division, (which includes
+be region from Ohio westward t. the western boIuers
Of Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas ana north"aiu
to the great lakes-cOnained 5,791,212 ihhap'tah'S
living in cities of 5000 population or more In ue
two divisions named, therefore, were iouhd nearly
five -sixths Of the urban population.
In the North Atlantic Division, 5loo per CENT
or more than one-haf the entire population, Is con
tained in cities of 1000 or more inhabitants In the
last ten wears the urban element in the same dVsloh
increased 1888 per cent. while the total popuiauoh
increased only 1895 per cent. In New-fork' M'ssa
chusetts Maine and Vermont the increase OF TIE urDd
element was greater than the increase OF uhe "UdI
nonulation: in other words, the rural population Oh
those States actually diminished between looo anu
1890. ..,..,.- ~. o,.,os
In the North Central Division the population OF cites
NJ z 600 or more inhabitants was 2o.9 per cehI vi
triAe more than onefourth OF the whole' the uiohn
nopulation had nearly doubled In the years WHO tio
total had increased only 2s75 per cent in the same
neriod; the total increase Of city populaloh was
= -6e 5o9 more than one-han of which was found IN
eleven large cities while the remainder was cohtaheu
in 141 smaller cities ,o,
In fine southern States, including the "border"
States the proportion Of urban population Is coir
naratiyely small being somewhat less thah 10 Pci
cent of the total population, but the relative
in the last decade was $3.50 per cent for tle urOa
nonulation while in the total population the increase
was only 2O.O7 per cent The CROWN Oh uID'n
population In the South is found NANNY III uio'e
ta,os in which mining and manufactures have gained
q footbod since 1880. In some OF the STATES Vi Vio
contb the proportion Of the population which hVeo III
itiee of 600 or more inhabitants is extremely smah
IN Nssissppi it is only 2.64 per cent, IN North
Coro1;na only 3.87 per cent, and in Arkansas 4o0
nor cont mississippi has only three cities whlch
Contain 5000 inhabitants more; in 1850 IL hao
only one -.-,.o. ~, Aha c,o.os ord
The Western Division comprises all the states ana
,ories west of the North Central Division and north
-, raxas Indian Territory and Oklahoma In this di-
11eon the urban element constituted 1897 per cent
- tho total nomination. while in 1890 twas 2974 per
cont showing that it had gained somewhat more rapidly
ban the total population. In the State OF New-fork
tbere are forty three cities, each of which contained
= 600 or more inhabitants in 1890 HE names u
those cities and the population Of each are as follows
Albany ID oo3: Amsterdam, 1885; Auburn, 2oooo
Binehamton 80 ,OO5 Brooklyn, 9o6343; Buffalo, 700
eeA. Cohoes %, 500; Corning $3.50; DunMrk ollo'
rlr,,ra 90 7O8: Flushing 1086s; Gloversvilie, 10,
e61: Hornellsville 1896 Hudson 9hlo' Iunacd'
~ O7o jamestown 16,035; Kingston, 81 26l Lansing
hug 10 $50: Little Falls. 67o3; Lockport. 16O3o
vernon 1887; w-Brghton 16,428 Newbnrg' 20.
OS7: New Rochelle, S,919; New ORR I3l o 81
Ogdensburg, II $50; Oswe2o 81, o42 PeeKsNn 200
port Jervis 0327; Poughkeepse, 22,2O6: Rochester,
133 SOC: Rome 14,9D1 Saratoga springs ll'9oo ;
Schenectady 1902: sing sing, 0,352 syracuse 30
1913 Troy, 6095G; Utica, a.. OO1 WATERFOWL 1s'-'
West Troy, II ,967; YOnkers 32,O33.