The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-21
POPULATION OF ALABAMA.
An Increase of 2o.s Per Cent 4,
Ten Years.

Ten Years.
The Census Bureau yesterday an.
nounced the population Of Alabama for
1900 as 1.S2s.6s7. In 1890 the population
was 1,513,et7, and the increase In ten
years has been s15,sso. or EOS per cent.
This rate Of increase 10 slightly
| greater than that for the decade from
| 1850 to 1890. when it was 1913 per cent,
| but somewhat less than that for the
| decade from 1870 to 1880, when 1t was
| 26.6 per cent. From 1920 to 1850. the
| FIRST cecennial period In the history Of
| the State, its population increased 142
| per cent, and in the following decade
| sO.s per cent, but subsequently the raie
| of increase declined until the decade
from 1860 to 1870. when II was only 3.4
per cent. The population of. Alabama
for 1900 is more than fourteen times az
large as the population given for 1920.
the first census taken after its organi-
zation as a State in 1919.
The total land surface Of Alabama Is. ape
proximately. 51,540 square miles, the aver
age number OF persons to the square mile
at the censuses of 1890 and 1900 being al
follows: 1890. 29.3 per cent; 1900. 35.4 per
cent. The population by counties Is as fol-
lows:
Autauga, 1875; Baldwin. 1884: Bar
bour, g, 152; Bibb 1898: Blount. 3,1l9;
Bullock, 1884; Butler. 25,7S1: Calhoun,
1854; Chambers, 81. $50; Cherokee. 21.096;
Chiffon, 1882: Choctaw. 1916; Clarke.
q. $50; Clay. 1909: Cleburne, 1926; Cof-
fee, 2o.s72; Colbert. 22,s4i; coneeuh, H.
514: Coosa, 16, IA: Covington. 1896; Cren-
shaw. 10, SOS; CuIlman, 17.s49; Dale. 21.1s9:
Dallas. 54.657; De KaIb. 23.5hs; Elmore,
26099; EseaInbia, 1880; Etowah, 1851;
Fayette, 1872; Franklin. 16.511; Geneva,
1905: Greene. "a. 1872; Hale. 81. oil; Henry,
36,147; Jackson. 30.5oS; Jefferson. 40 40;
Lamar, 1904: Lauderdale. 1850: Law
renee. 20,124: Lee. 1885; Limestone. a.
cS7; Lowndes. 1851; Macon. q, 126; Madi-
son, 43. 7G2: Marengo. 3s.315; Marion, H.
1874; Marshall. $3.50; Mobile. 81. 40: Mon
roe, 1866; Montgomery, 72.047: Morgan,
$3.50; Perry 31,1s3; Pickens. 24.4o2: Pike.
29.172: Randolph. 21.647; Russell, N,0S3;
st. Clair, 19.425: Shelby. 1854: Sumter,
1910; Talladega, 35,773, Tallapoosa. a.
SIS: Tuscaloosa, SO. 147: Walker. rs, 16Z;
Washington, 11,134; Wilcox, 1851; Wins
ton 1854.
OF the sixty-six counties In the State
all but two have increased in population
during the decade, the counties showing
more than 80 per cent Of increase being:
Covington, 1895 per cent: Geneva, 1856:
Coffee. 72.3; Jefferson, $50; Walker, 56.4:
and Franklin. 54.5. Jefferson County shows
the largest numerical increase. 51,919, but
nearly one-fourth of this increase is due
to the increase in the population Of the
city Of Birmingham. The two counties
showing a decrease in population are Gle
burne and Lawrence.
OF the 201 incorporated cities. towns and
villages. 80 have population Of more than
z, coo and nine of more than 5000. The lat
ter are Admission, 1855; Bessemer, 6.35s;
Birmingham. sS.415: Florence. 6,47s;
Huntsville SECS: Mobile, 3S.4s9: Mont
gomery, 80, $40; Selma, S,713; Tuscaloosa,
), 094.
The population of Birmingham increased
from 3.0s6 to 1880 to 2S.17S in 1890, or 74S.2
per cent; and from Is, IFS in 1890 to 3S. Ais
in 1900. or 4s.7 per cent. Mobile increased
in population from 1880 to 1890 only 6.6
per cent. but in the last decade 23.7 per
cent. The population of Montgomery in
creased from 1850 to 1890 at the rate Of
3O.9 per cent, but in the decade just closed
1t the rate Of ass Per cent. The greatest
numerical increase and the greatest per-
:entage of increase during the last ten
Tears have occurred in the city Of Biz
ningham.