The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-07-27
Complete Returns From the State
Census Shows That Keno.
sha Now Has is, 204.
KENOSHA LEADS IN ADVANCE
City Shows an Increase of 100 per cent
in Ten Years and 40 per cent
Over the National Cen
gus of 1900.

pleted his work of taking the state
census of Kenosha this morning and
his report, which will be filed with
the city clerk within the next few
days, shows that the city now has a
population Of 16,2O4. It is possible
that these figures may be changed
one way or the other by ten or twelve
in the revision, but the population can
be said to be we'll In advance of 10000
people.
In the enumeration it is found that
the Third ward is the largest in the
,4ty, with the Fourth as a close sec
ond, the First is in third place and
the Eighth is fourth, the Fifth is
second, Sixth and Seventh follow in
the order named.
| The report of the enumeration will
be especially gratifying to the people
of the city and it will proba bly, make
Kenosha the banner city of the state
in the way of increase in population
during the past five years. When the
national census was taken in 19t the
city was shown to have a population
of II, GOO, and the increase in the past
five years is just little under 40
per cent.
| When the previous census was taken
in 1895 the population of the city was
S,122 so that the increase in ten years
IS shown to be over 90 per cent and it
is possible that the revision of the
figures will bring this increase up to
the 100 per cent mark. Still more
startling are the figures when com
pared with the figures for 1890, when
the city had population of but
6,532. The increase for the fifteen
Years is shown to be nearly us per
c mt. Of course this enumeration
does not include all the people who
are tributary to the city and who use
the city as working place and as
place for trade. Added to the 16,204
within the corporate limits of the
city there is fully three, and possibly
four thousand people who claim Ke-
nosha as their home but who live be-
vond the fixed limits of the city.
These people reside in North Keno
sha, Kenosha Heights, and in the
thickly settled portions of the towns
Of Somers and Pleasant Prairie
directly adjacent to the city.
Ali of these people will be enumer-
ated as residents of the towns of
Pleasant Prairie and Somers but it
IS probable that before a year passes
many of them will be added to the
city by annexation.
The growth of Kenosha when COM
pared with Racine and other cities
in this section Of the state shows that
the city has more than doubled the
increase of other cities in this Sec
ton. The increase in Racine is but
10 per cent over the figures of FIVE
years ago and in Beloit and GAINESVILLE
the increase is about II per cent.
The full returns from the county
have not as yet been received but
thus far the town of Paris is the only
town to show falling off under the
last census. The indications are that
at the rate Kenosha is growing the
population of the city will touch the
20, 900 mark in the next two years.
The statistics showing the growth
of industrial plants in the state have
not as yet been compiled, but they
will show that the business of Keno
sha in the past FIVE years has more
than doubled, and that the industrial
business of the city has increased
nearly five hundred per cent. in the
past fifteen years. These interesting
statistics will be compiled within the
next few weeks.