The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-05-10
Dwellings and Families in 500.


Extra census bulletin No. l9 gives
the general results of the eleventh Gen.
sus as regards dwellings and families
for the States and principal cities OF
the Union. For census purposes any
place where person lives is dwell.
ing, whether a room over warehouse.
a loft over a stable, a wigwam, hotel,
tenement-house or an ordinary dwell
ing house. OF dwellings as thus de-
fined there were in 1890 as many as
many as IL ,4S3.3lS. occupied by 12,-
690,l52 families, aggregating 62,622,-
250 persons. The average number of
persons in dwelling was 545; of per-
sons to family 4.64 About half of
the population of the country is housed
in dwellings occupied by from two to
six persons, the dwellings occupied by
four persons being the most numerous.
Families consisting of four persons are
likewise most numerous. The number
of persons to a dwelling has steadily
decreased since 1850, when it was
5.94. Tie number of persons to a
family has decreased with like
steadiness, being 5.55 in 1850
5.2S in 1860, 500 in 1870. 5.O4 in
1880 and 4.94 in 1890. The excess
of families over dwellings has regularly
increased. In 1850 it was 1902 per
cent; in 1880 it was LOO per cent;
III 1890 it was 1851 per cent. In the
South and West the excess has always
been small, averaging about 225 per
cent. of the whole number of families
in 1850 and about $50 per cent. in
: 1890, while in the North Atlantic
States the excess has grown since 1850
from SO per cent. to 25.3l per cent
The growth of cities in the North At
lantic States accounts for the multipli
cation of families in one dwelling with.
; in their area. The facts of this bulIe
tin become very interesting when we
pass to the figures for Individual States
and cities. Maryland in 1890 haC
l84,2O4 dwellings, with 5.66 person,
I, to a dwelling, as against l55,07(
dwellings in 1880, with 6.03 persons
; to dwelling. Virginia in 1890 ba,
292,654 dwellings, with 5.66 person
}, to a dwelling. West Virginia had 5.5
}, persons to dvelling. North Care
lima 5.37, and South Carolina $50
while Massachusetts had $50 and Ne,
+ York go. Maryland had at the las
. census 2D2,l79 families averaging ). |
: persons to family, as against 1851
Is families in 1880, with 5.33 persons t
} a family. Virginia had 304,673 fan
: lies in 1890, averaged 5.44 person
. to family. North Carolina, Sout
J Carolina and Georgia typical Soutl
ern States averaged about 5.22 pc
e sons TO family. Maine, New Ham,
- shire and Vermont, Oh the other hant
'e averaged but SO persons to a fan
y lily. In none of The North Atlant
+ States-the eastern and middle State
Is north of Delaware-does the averae
ie family number over 4.95 persons.
{ is in the South Atlantic and Sout
. Central States that the average famil
ie is largest The increase of the nun
Der of families since 1880 has bee
2,744,236, or 27.59 per cent. Frol
1850 to 1860 the increase was 44.e
20 per cent. Families have increased
ar number faster than dwellings.
=. Rhode Island there are 124.510 mo
n families than dwellings-over one-thiI
A of the total number of families.
be New York there are 412,422 mo
he families than dwellings-46 per Ger
mo- of the whole number.
q. The sizes of the several cities of Il
,es Union, with the degree of independen
and comfort in which their citize
ok live, may be gathered from the Gems
nd enumeration of the dwellings in ea(
in persons to dwelling, etc. Baltimo
rk compares favorably with its rivals
IL these capital points. Baltimore
1890 had 72,1l2 dwellings, S6,6
tel families, 6.02 persons to dwelli
Of and 50l persons to family. @
el. leading cities present the followi
,ed figures:
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