The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-09
States Full Population Is
2,l47,532 An Increase of
Il Per Cent IN Five Years
SYNOPSIS OF CITIES
TRENTON LEADS IN DIVORCED
COUPLES GERMANY THE
BEST REPRESENTED FOREIGN
NATION WEST HoBoKEN,s
LACK OF COLOR.

This State has 2.1475s2 Inhabitants.
This is the official count, as given out
by the census bureau yesterday. Ham-
monitor, Atlantic county. Lavelette.
Ocean county, and West ilford. Pas
sale county. which municipalities wers
missing. have sent in their returns.
The Increase in the five years from
1900 to 1905 is a tride over 1 per cent.
This gain is sufieient TO maintain the
percentage increase of the decade from
1890 to 1900.
The biggest gain outside Of the coun-
ties in North Jersey was in this county
-15.151. of which nearly 11oo0 is IN
this city.
There were 142 places which showed
a decrease of populatica since 1900. but
in many cases this was due TO alteration
of town lines But there were many
genuine losses. Two persons have van
iShed from Saddle River, nine from Cape
May, four from Brigantine City. two
from Chesterfield. in Burlington county;
eight from Oldman's township in Salem
county: two from Fieldshoro. in sllem;
three from Pottsgrove. in Salem. Ta.r-9
teen have gene from New Providence
township in Union county. The enumep
for tried to reduce the number to twelve,
on account of the unlucky number. out
failed. and gave up the Job in chayin.
A synopsis of the color. conir< re
lations, occupation and natioaa II Of the
inhabitants of the twelve largesF cIiss
of the State has just been corp eted by
the census bureau. The information fur
nished by the tables shows very in1e. est
ing acts.
Newark has about one-haif the number
of dwellings as it has families. Tie tah-
les show that in the larger cities tie pop
ulation is more congested.
Seven of the dozen cites have more
males than females Perth Amboy has
more males proportionately than any Of
the other cities. having 1900 more males
than females. with a population Of 25.-
S95.
New Brunswick has probably the best
percentage Of females, while Jersey City
is about evenly balanced Bayonne
stands next to Perth Ambay and thea
this city comes in.
In respect to negroes. Atlantic City
has the most. almest one-fourh of It's
entire population being black This sea-
side resort has more negrses than any
ctber city in the State. This is due. no
doubt, to the oppogtunit ,es off. red neg
roes in the way of securing positions as
walters. Camden cones next having
twice as many negroes stsreaton.
West Hoboken probably stands best in
the way of having the least number of
negroes. having only So our of a po9ula.
ton of 29os2. The North jersey cities
have few negroes compared with the
South Jersey municipalities.
In all the cities there is slightly over
one-half of the male and female a..
lation married Elizabeth SENS to have
the greatest proportion of single men,
but about one-half of the female popula.
tion is married
Camden has the greatest persentage
of widows Newark also stand pretty
| well in this respect. PERTH Anboy has
the smallest proportion of widows.
Trenton leads in divorces. having 121.
as against 245 in Newark which is al
most four times as big as Trenton. Cam
den comes next to Trenton
Trenton has a large proportion of pro-
fessional men and leads in this respect.
There are more professional men tehre
thon in Paterson, which is 4 large city.
Camden has a little more than half the
number of professional men there. but
leads Trenton in those engaged in com-
mercial pursuits, having almost twice as
many.
New Brunswick has in proportion the
most farmers. with Elizabeth second and
Trenton third. Jersey City has the least
| percentage.
There are more German-born inhab-
itants in Trenton than of any other natio-
J aIity; in fact, Germany has the largest
aggregate representation in the dozen
largest cities.
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