Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30
MISSOURI RURAL
POPULATION LESS
FINAL CENSUS SHOWS 5s.4 PER
CENT LIVE IN VILLAGES,
TOWNS AND CITIES.
ST. LOUIS INCREASE BIG
Ten Year Increase In Cities Of Over
$500 Amounts to 22.3 Per Cent
While Remainder of State
Decreases 3.5 Per Cent.

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Of the population of Missouri lives in
the villages, towns and cities.
The census bureaus complete bull
letin upon the states 1910
ton shows the population of "all in
~corporated places" to be 1,575,616, or
5S.4 per cent. In 1900 the fncorpor-
ated places as they then existed had
1,437,457, or 46.3 per cent of the total.
Conclusiyely, the story of the last
decades migration from the farm is
again told. However, the census bu-
reau classifies the people in incorpor-
ated places of less than $500 inhabit-
ants as residing in rural territory"
Put this way, only 42.5 per cent of the
total is urban population"
st. Louis increased her population
a little more than three times as
rapidly as the state as a whole, the
group of other cities outside of st.
Louis having $500 inhabitants or
more, four times as rapidly, and the
group of cities having from $500 to
$1,000 inhabitants more than four
times, as rapidly, while the popula-
ton in rural territory decreased 3.5
per cent. 1t also appears that of the
total increase In the population of the
state during the decade 1S6,670, more
than four-sevenths, was in st. Louis.
The sixty-two cities having $500 OF
more contained 1,39S,S17 inhabitants
in 1910, and the remaing areas L.
848,518, or 57.5 per cent. The same
percentages in 1900 were 1868 and
63.7, respectively. Therefore, the real
ly remarkable gain was in the sixty
two cities. In these communities the
ten-year increase amounted to 1928
Der cent, while the remainder of the
state recorded a decrease of 3.5 per
cent.
The final bulletin compares urban
and rural population in detail; sets
forth the general population figures
Of the state for each census since
1910; gives the relative growth of the
principal cities, and states of density
Of population. The average of per-
sons to the square mile last year was
t7.9 and the average for the CONT
Mental United States was 300.
OF. the relative distribution of ur-
ban and rural population the census
bulletin says:
"The urban territory of the state
IN 1910-that is, the cities of $500 in
habitants or more-contained 1885,
BIT inhabitants or 42.5 per cent of the
total population, while 1,894,518 in
habitants or 57.5 per cent lived in
rural territory. The urban territory
as it existed in 1900-that is, the
cities then having $500 inhabitants
Dr. more-contained LIPS, 104 inhabit-
ants or 63.3 per cent of the total pop
l~lation, while 1,978,561 inhabitants or
63.7 per cent lived in rural territory.
There has thus been considerable
increase in the proportion of urban
population. For continental United
States as a whole, the urban popula-
ton constituted 46.3 per cent of the
total population in 1910 and 40.5 per
cent of the total population in 1900.
1.-THE SOB incorporated places Of
less than $500 inhabitants each have
an aggregate population of 358,799.
representing 1913 per cent of the total
population of the state. These places
comprise 104 having from 1000 to q
500 inhabitants each, with a combined
population Of 166,893; 1876 having
from 500 to 1000 inhabitants each,
with a combined population of 96,145;
and 1854 having less than 500 inhabit-
ants each with a combined population
of 95,671. The population living in
incorporated territory represents 46.6
per cent of the total. (
"In all incorporated places, includ-
ing those Of less than $500 inhabit-
ants, there was in 1910 a population
of 1,75z616 or 53.4 per cent of the
population of the state. The popula-
tion of all incorporated places, as
they existed in 1900, was 1,437,45 or
46.3 per cent of the population of the
state"
The population of the state in 1910
was more than 1877 times as great as
In 1910, the earliest year for which
figures for the area are available,
while the population Of continental
United States in 1919 was less than
thirteen times that in 1910.