The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-12-28
DATA SHOW
NUMERICAL ADVANCE
over FORMER COUNT
Rural as Well as Urban Popula,
ton in Nebraska Has Had q
Healthy Growth.

Washington. Dec. 25.-Following the
previous preliminary announcements, by
h census bureau, OF tho aggregate
population Of all places In the state Of
Nebraska, Al enumerated at the thir-
teenth census, taken as Of April IL,
1910, Director purand, Of the census
bureau, department of commerce and
labor, issued today q statement giving
additional advance details, Of which
the more important relate to the states
urban and rural population. The in
formation was drawn from the advance
pared under the supervision OF william
&. Hunt, chief statistician for popula-
ton In the census bureau.
The census bureau, for purposes Of
discussion, has defined urban popula-
tion as that residing In cities and other
Incorporated places of $500 Inhabitants
or more, and rural population az that
places.
The urban territory Of the state in
1910 that Is the cities and i%ncorpor-
ated villages Of $500 inhabitants or
more-contained $40. 1852 Inhabitants, or
26.1 per cent Of the total population,
cent, lived In rural territory. The ur-
a territory as 1t existed in 1900
that Is, the cities then having $500
inhabitants or MORE, contained 252, 702
inhabitants, or 1877 per cent Of the to-
tai population, while S18, 598 inhabit-
ants or 1873 per cent, lived In rural ter
ritory. There has thus been a slight
increase in the proportion of urban pop
ulation. During the decade 1S90-1900
there was an apparent decrease in the
proportion Of urban population In the
state, but this may have been due to
an overcount Of the population Of GER
tain cities In 1890. For continental
TyrtfAI Ctafaa aa m ryhNIA 49, ..-I1-
population constituted 46.3 per cent of
the total population in 1910 I'M 40.5
per cent of the total population in 1900.
The AT places OF less than $500 inhabi-
tants each have an aggregate population
of 243. 1872, or 20.4 per cent Of the total
population Of the state. These places COM
prise GA having from 1000 to $500 inhabi-
tants each, with q combined population
of 50, 2S5; 100 having from 500 to 1000 inhab-
itants each, with a combined population of
69,450, and 263 having less han 500 inhahi-
tants each, with a combined population OF
7S,547.
In all incorporated places, including
those of less than $500 inhabitants, there
was In 1910 q population Of 554, IA, or 46.5
per cent of the population of the state.
Fourteen counties had q larger proper
ton and five counties a smaller proportion
Of urban population In 1910 than in 1900.
Three counties which were wholly rural
counties were partly urban in 1910, while
66 counties n the two combinations Of
counties were wholly rural at both
censuses.
A comparison of the total population in
1910 of places having a population Of not
less than $500 each with the total popula-
ton of the same places in 1900, shows an
increase OF 1871 per cent. This represents
the rate of growth of urban communities
as thus defined. During the same period
the rural population, comprising that Of
the remainder of the state, increased 90
per cent. Urban population thus increased
nearly twice as rapidly as that Of the
rural territory.
The population of Nebraska Is 1892, 214.
Compared with a population Of Lose, 300 in
1900, this represents an increase during the
last decade of 125, 914, or lis per cent. Dur
ing the same period the total increase for
the population of the state during the pre-
ceding decade-lS90-19O0, was only three
tenths Of l per cent.
Nebraska has So cities. of which the
largest, Omaha, has a population of 124, O96,
and Lincoln, the second city, a popula-
ton Of Al, 973. South Omaha, with 26, 259,
and Grand Island, with 10, 1926 inhabitants,
are the only other cities In the state hav-
ing over 5000 inhabitants. There are also
cine cities having from 5000 to 5000, IL
from $500 to 5000. and 81 having less than
$500 Inhabitants. The aggregate popuia-
ton of the SO cities Is 3S9, 1888, or S2.7 per
cent Of the total population Of the state.
Grand Island shows the highest rate OF
increase during the last decads, namely,
1851 per cent, and South Omaha the lowest,
l per cent.
The total land area Of the state is 76. sos
square miles. The average number Of per.
sons to the square mile IN 1910 was 15.5; in
1900 and 1890 1t was 1879 and 1873 respective.
ly. The average number per square mile
for continental United States as a whole
In 1910 was 30.9.
Cherry county. with 6.g79 square miles
has the largest area, and Sarpy county
with 20 square miles, has the smalles,
area. Douglas county, containing Omaha
city. has the highest density, namely, 500.
per square mile, and Hooker county, with
IL persons per square mile, has the lowest
density.