New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-27
RAPID GROWTH OF CITIES.
URBAN POPULATION Is NOW NEARLY ONE
THIRD OF THE WHOLE.
IN 44s CITIES OF 5000 OR MORE INHABITANTS
1s,2ss,e7o PEOPLE WERE LIVING LAST JUNE
WHERE THEY WERE DISTRIBUTED.

WHERE THEY WE'RE
IBY TELEGRAPH TkIBUNE.l
Washington, April 26.-Nearly 80 per cent OF the
population Of the United States Is contained in cities
each OF which has 5000 or inhabitants when
the statistics Of cities and towns with population oil
1000 to 5000 shall have been compiled 1t will prob
ably be found that the total urban population OF the
country in 1890 was very nearly one-thlrd OF the
entire population. In 1880 there were 334 cities and
towns In the United States each of which had popula
ton Of 1000 to 5000, the total population of all
being s62 400 about 81 per cent Of the entire
population of the country In view OF the large
relative increase of population of cities OF 5000 or
more inhabitants in the last decade 1t IS not to be
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
I'm 1900 there were 443 and they contained 2012 per
cent Of the entire population. This was a" Increase
in number of 1877 and in population OF GOO per cent
The largest increase Of population In cites OF the
class mentioned in any preceding decade was 4o per
cent between 1860 and 1870; from 1870 to 1880 the
increase was only 1.54 per cent. In 1870 the total
population Of cities in the United States was only l3l
472, or $50 per cent Of the entire population
OF the 1925, $50 inhabitants Of cities which con-
talned population Of 5000 more in $780, 1876
426, or nearly onehalf, were found in the North
Atlantic Division, which comprises New-England, New
York, New-Jersey and Pennsylvania and eleven OF
the twentysix cities, each OF which had lOOooo or
more Inhabitants situated in the same States The
twelve states which comprise what the Census Bureau
STYLES the North Central Division, (which includes
the region from Ohio westward the western borders
of Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas and northwaru
TO the great laBes-contained 5,791,272 inhaonants
living in cities of 5000 population or more In the
two divisions named, therefore, were found nearly
fve-sixths Of the urban population
In the North Atlantic Division, 5l.5s per cent
T.a1f Ala ffpa M
tanned in cities of 5000 more inhabitants. In the
last ten years the urban element in the same division
increased 1888 PEI cent, while the total populauoh
increased only 1895 per cent. In New-fork, Massa-
chusets Maine and Vermont the increase OF the urban
element was greater than the increase OF the total
population; in other words, the rural population Oh
those States actually diminished between 1850 and
1890. Az
In the North Central Division the population OF cues
80 600 or more inhabitants was o59 per cent, or
trfe more than Onefourth OF the whole the urban
populaton had nearly doubled in the years whhe Ihe
total had increased only 1918 per cent In the saie
nerod; the total increase Of city population was
766 1903 more than one-h half of which was found IN
eleven large cities while the remainder was contained
in 141 smaller cities
In the Southern States including the "border
States, the proportion Of urban population Is coni
paratively small, being somewhat less than Id per
cent of the total population, but the relative lhcIe
i'm the last decade was $500 per cehi IoI 'i0 "''
nonulaton while in the total population the increase
was only 2O.O7 per cent. The growth OF urban
nonuIatlon in the South is found mainly In those
states in which mining and manufactures nave eaheu
foothold since 1850. In some OF the states OF lhe
South the proportion of the population which lives IN
cities of 5000 or more inhabitants is extremely small
in Mississippi it is only 2.64 per cent, In North
Carolina only 387 per cent, and In ARKANSAS 4.0o
ner cent Mississippi has only three cities whch
contain 5000 inhabitants moro; In 1850 II mad
only one.
The Western Division comprises all the States ana
toes west of the North Central Division and north
- Toxas Indian Territory and oklahoma. In this di-
d,or the urban element constituted 1897 per cent
f the total population, while in 1890 1T was 2914 per
cent showing that it had gained somewhat more fapS
+bop the total population In the State Of Newfork
there are forty three cities each OF which contained
9 600 mr. more inhabitants In 1890. The names OF
esa cities and the population Of each are as follows
Albany 94. 9o3 Amsterdam, II $780, Auburn, 2o,e5S;
Rnphamton, So OO5; Brooklyn, s06,343; Buffalo, 26o-
6e4: Coboes % 500; Corning. $3.50; Dunhirk, 9llo'
Eluira oo7O8: Flushing 1866; Gloversville 10
s64t iornellsvine, 1O,906; Hudson, 0,07O; ithaca
II O70 jamestown, 16039; Kingston, FL .26 Lansing
burg 10 $50: Little Falls S,763; LOckpOrt 16O3S
Long Island City, 80, 500 MddetOvn, 1877; Mount
Vernon 1887 New Brighton, 1642S Newburg 81
Oedepsburg II $50 Oswego, 81 $40 Peeksdn. 9o76;
Port Jervis 1927 Poughkeepsie 222O6 Rochester,
183 sO6 Rome, 14991; Saratoga Springs, 1879
Schenectady 1892: Sing Sing. 0352; Syracuse. 49,
143: Troy co, 95G Utica, d. 007 WATERFOWL, 1412o
West Troy, 12,967; Yonkers, 32o33