The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-30
new YORK LARGEST.
ORGANIZED CITY
Census Bureau Finds London
Can No Longer Claim Honor
Of the Lead.
IN 1920 1T WILL EXCEED
Now Ahead in Having Greatest
Number of Inhabitants With
in the Corporate Limits.

! Washington. October 29.--New York
! city is now the largest organized
municipality in the world. Census Di-
rector Durand stated yesterday. His
/ assertion Is based on a statement pre-.
pared for him by Charles S. Sloane.
I geographer for the Bureau of the Cen
| sus. and also secretary OF the United
States Board on Geographic Names. The
| facts are given as follows:
| The question as to the city or NUM-
cipality which includes within it's col :
| porate limits the greatest number OF
inhabitants has for centuries been an
swered London" In one sense. at
least. this honor has now been trans.
ferred 10 New York.
| The twelfth enumeration OF Greui
| Dritain. In 1911. furnishes new ngurcs
OF population. both FOR the administrn.
tive county of London and for what Is
! termed Greatcr London. The thirteenth
census of the United States in 1910
| also furnished substantially compare
I bio figures both for New York City
| as at present constituted and for what
is taken by the Census Bure-u to form
the metropolitan district of New York
Comparison of the Two Cities.
New York City, covering an area of
PSI square miles, can be compared with
the administrative county of London,
covering an area of III square miles
with approximate fairness to both
| cities, since New York City comprises
Richmond and Queens counties, botn
OF which contain thinly settled areas
that are practically farming, districts,
while all of London county is denscly
populated. For comparison with Great
er London. territory adjoining New
York City in the States of New York
and New Jersey has been added to
the city to form what is termed the
metropolitan district OF New York,
closely approxlmating the area Of
| Greater London.
| a comparison OF the latest census,
hgures for these areas shows that in
| population New York City has passed
the administrative county OF London
and that in few years Greater Lon
don Will contain fewer Inhabitants
than the metropolitan district OF New
York. AS Greater London can scarc,-
| iY be considered municipality, h.y-
Ing no political organization save for
the fact that the national government
| controls the police IN It's area. II Is
proper TO say that New York is now
the largest organized municipality IN
| the world.
| According 70 the last Federal cen
sus, New York City contained in :9l0
population of +.766.Ss3, and. accord
Ing to the last English census, the
administrative county of London hnd
In 1911 population OF 4.522,96l. The
increase in the population of New
York City from 1900 to 1910 was
i.S2a6sl, or as.7 per cent. while dur =.
Ing the ten years from 1901 to 1911
the population of the administrative
county of London decreased 1896 o,
O.3 per cent.
| The Increase Since 1880.
According to the returns OF the sec
ond census. taken In 1900. New York
city, In the 2s7 square miles now com
prised within Its limits, had 1925 In
habitants. and the present area of the
first administrative county OF London
at the first English census taken in
1901, included population of 959.3lO
or nearly 100000 more people than In
New York City. During the decade 1901
TO 1911. the percentage of increase OF
the administrative county of London
was 1s.S and It's greatest rate OF in
crease during any decade of the pas,
century was 21.2 per cent, from is4I
to 1851. From 1901 to 1911 there was
an actual decrease In population of O 2
per cent.
Assuming that New York city con.
tinues to increase during the next tor
years 1t the Same rate as during the
previous decade, its population In 1920
VIII be 6,6ll.667, while London county
should II decrease at the same rate as
during the previous decade will have
},6lo9s8 Inhabitants at the same date
difference of over two millions. AZ
New York's percentage of increase has
peen steadily increasing. and that O,
the administrative county of London
steadily decreasing. tho difference In
1920 may be even greater.
Greater London Growth Decreasinr
Since 1870 the rate of growth o,
the metropolitan district of New York
has steadily increased, while that n,
Greater London has steadily decreased
In view of these tendencies il is not
unreasonable to assume that the rat,
per cent. OF increase from 1910 to 1921
VIII be for the New York district nj
least as high, and for the London dis.
triet at least as low, as from 1900 IL
1910. Taking the percentages as the
same, In 1920 the New York metropoli.
tan district will have at least ono mil.
lion more inhabitants than Create,
London. In fact. on this ASSUMPTION
the former will have passed the latte,
BY 1915; the population estimated 70,
n the metropolitan district Of New York
at that time being T,6Sl546, ana 70,
Greater London, 7.54S.ss3.
New York can therefore unioubtedls
soon Justly claim that 1t has within
the area OF Its metropolitan district
the greatest aggregation of population
in the world.
Assuming. also. that the rates OF in.
crease In population shown for the las,
decade, 19oo-1910, will be continued Il
1880. New York City alone will hav,
before 1880 more population thar
Greater London. the estimates for 1890
being 9,170.3S3 for New York and g.
&S0S,02T for Greater London.
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