The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-12
Kansas Rural Districts Show
Slower Growth Than Towns.
Three Cities Now Have 1916 Per
Cent. Total Population.
CHEROKEE is LOSER
Wabaunsee County Shows Loss
of 80 Since Last Census.
State Has AS Cities With Less
Than $500.

Washington, Sept 12.-FolIowing the
| preliminary announcements, which have
| been made from time to time, of the
| aggregate population of all places in
| the state of Kansas, as enumerated at
| the thirteenth census, taken as of April
/ Is, 1910, Census Director Durand issued
today statement giving interesting
/ additional advance details, one of
! which the more important relate states
urban population. The information
was taken from the first state popula-
tion bulletin for Kansas, now in press,
prepared under the supervision of Mr..
! William G. Hunt, chief statistician for
population.
Urban and Rural Population.
| The urban territory of Kansas in
| 1910 contained 493.79O inhabitants, or
29.2 per cent of the total population,
| while 1871 159 inha bitants, or T0S per
cent lived in rural territory. The ur-
ban territory as it existed in 1900
that is, the cities then having $500 in
ha bitants or more-cOntained 33O,e03 in
habitants, or 22.5 per cent of the total
population, while 1.139, ,592 inhabitants,
or 77.5 per cent, lived in rural terri
tory. There has thus been a consider
able increase in the proportion of ur-
ban population There was also a
slight increase in the proportion of ur-
ban population in the state from 1890
to 1900.
There were 36 counties having a
larger proportion and counties
in 1910 than in 1900. while 63 counties
were wholly rural at both censuses. In
each of 6 counties in 1910 the urban
population constituted so per cent or
more of the total population.
A comparison of he total population
in 1910 of the cities having a population
of not less than $500 each with the to-
tai population of the same places in
1900, shows an increase of SO per cent
This represents the rate of growth of
A.
During the same period the rural
population, comprising the remainder
of the state. increased 73 per cent.
Urban population thus increased con-
as that of the state as whole. and |
more than five times as rapidly as
rural population. There are Al coun-
ties in which the rural population de- |
creased but only in which there was
a decrease of urban population.
In 1890 there were two cities in Kan |
sas-Kansas City and Topeka-with |
more than 25 900 inhabitants each, their |
combined population comprising 40 per |
cent of the total population of the |
state. In 1900 these cities contained |
5.S per cent of the total population. BY |
1910 Wichita had Joined Kansas City |
and Topeka in the group of cities hav- I
ing over %. 900 Inhabitants the com
bined population in 1910 of these three
cities comprising 1915 per cent of the I
total population of the state The pro-
portion Of the total population of the
state in the combined groups of cities
having between $500 and $4,000 in
habitants increased from 14.2 per cent
in 1890 to 16.7 per cent in 1900 and to
1876 per cent in 1910.
Kansas Has Az Cities.
Kansas has All cities, which comprise
all the incorporated territory of the
state. Kansas City, the largest city,
has a population of 81. .331, and Wichita
> ND he ir.I ,5f
in the state, have population of so, ,450
and 1854, respectively. OF the remain
ing cities. 8 have from $4,000 to 10000.
5 from 10000 to $1,000, IS from 5000 to
10, 900, 2S from $500 to 5000, and 41S less
than $500 inhabitants.
Wichita shows the highest percent
age of increase during the last decade,
namely, 1926 per cent and Atchison the
owest, As per cent while Leaven-
worth shows decrease of 6.6 per cent.
Kansas has 105 counties The popu-
alton of these counties ranges from
1913 in Haskell county to 100, 900 in
Vyandotte county.
Seventy-two counties have increased
n population during the last decade.
he percentages of increase ranging
rom five-tenths of l per cent in Nc
2herson county to S97.7 per cent in
S~ward county and the absolute in
ereases from 100 in Mcpherson county
% %. 05S in Sedgwick county. Fifty-five
counties show larger percentage of
Increase than is shown for the state as
4 whole. which was Is per cent. Nine
cen counties show percentages of in
crease over 100 per cent each. Thirty
hree counties have decreased in popu-
alton during the last decade, the per-
,entages of decrease ranging from six
enths of 1 per cent in Lyon county to
SO per cent in Usage county, and the
absolute decrease from 80 in Wabaun-
zee county to 4532 in Cherokee county
During the preceding decade, 1s9O-1900
"A counties in the state showed de-
,reases in population The aggregate in
,rease of population from 1900 to 1910 in
he 70 counties that shov an increase
s 252 476; the aggregate decrease OF
population in the SO counties that show
4 decrease is 80. .022. The difference.
220. .454 is. of course, the total increase
Of population in the state.
Density of Population.
The total land area of the state is
q. .774 square miles. The average num-
Der of persons to the square mile is
2o.7: in 1900 and 1890 it was Is and 17.5,
respectively.
Butler county. with 1,4s4 square
miles has the largest area, and :
county. with 143 square
niles. the smallest area. Wyandotte