Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-08-12
oi Irhan and Rural
Population.

tfiintttON Ol rsih anu hhr"
Population.
The Census Bureau. for purposes
OF discussion. has defined urban pop
ulation generally as that residing In
cities and other Incorporated places
81 2.tGO inhabitants or more. In
the New ENGLAND States, In addition
tn cities having this population, all
towns having q population OF e.500
or more have also been classed as
urban without regard 10 the popu-
lation Of the villages whether in
corporated rs such or mott which
they may contain IN Massachusetts
and Rhode Island political divisions
Of lesser area 'Npn the town do not
exist. in New Hampshire there are
ory two such divisions ana IN each
OF. the three reIaining states, al.
J though many mch VILLAGES within
town limits have been Incorporated
they do not include all the actual
/ VILLAGES ip the state For This rca.
/ son " 's no. practicable In The New
/ En-laud states to malo statistical
separation OF the actual yillal;es
from the towns M which t1oy ar,
located The result Is that tGc "ur
ban areas" io New Fughud irclud.
some population which In other soc
,ione of the lnit,d States VnulC D.
SEGREGATED a. "rlra' This dcpar
turc from the general rule. rendered
necessary nv local conditions IN New
Fnrona. probably makes mo- rrSa
change i1 the proportions of urhar
and rural population in those SOC
tions % considerable variation doubt
less results. hlt there is p, reason
To spnpose TINT @ MATERIAL, affect
tho DISTINGUISHING character. tics o.
urban md rural population as dcfin
ol bv census statistic
Urban population being thus dc
fined, the remainder of she country
or state Is o'aesed as rural IN mos
o. the states therefore the rura
reputation consists of the population
outside ct cities or other mcorporat
cd places of $500 inhabitants o
more MT Ia the New England state
It consists VI the population cutsid,
of towns and titles having $500 In
) hahitants or more
The comparisons ot the urban an,
rural enumcrations may be mad
either with respect to the ypryini
proportions OF the two classes at sue
cossivc enumerations or with respec
To the increase between enumer,
tons In order to contrast the pro
portion of the total population livinl
in urban or rural territory at IN
census Of lolo with the proportion
urban or rural az the preceding cen
sus, II is necessary To classify ~
territory according 10 the condition
as they existed at each census OF
the other hand, In order to presen
fairly the contrast between ur0al
and rural communities, as regard
their rate of growth % is uocessar
20 consider the changes In popula
ton for the same territory whic
have occurred from one decenRia
census To another For this purpos
the territory which In 1910 was M
han or rural as the ease MAY be.
b taken as the basis. and the popula
ton IN l90t for the same tcrrtor
Is presented, even though part of m
territory may on the basis OF its poI
ulatlon az the earlier census, hay
then been IN a different class ThI
avoids the disturbing effect on con
PARSONS which would rise from m
passage for example, of communiti,
formerly rlassed as rural into IN
urban group
! Proportion of urban and Rural
D Population.
The proportion OF the total mop,
III