Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-11-08
MlLWAUKEE'S INCREASE BIG
Was Two and Half Times That OF
State During Decade Green Bay
Shows Highest Percentage of GAN
and La Crosse me Lowest
Growth of Wisconsin.

Washington, d. C. The census
bureau has issued an advance bulie-
tin on population in Wisconsin Civ
ing Decides data already published ad-
ditional facts.
II gives for each county Of the
state the population with decennial
increase for number of years. the
density, and the number of inhabi-
tants in urban and rural territory.
all of which information, except the
total population of counties, has not
hitherto been published.
The population of Wisconsin is p
333,S6O. Compared with a popula-
ton of 2,069,042 in 1900, this rep-
resents an Increase during the last
decade of z6A,S1S, or 1928 per cent.
During the same period the total
population of continental United
States increased 81 per cent.
Wisconsin has 124 cities. Milwau-
kee, the largest, has population of
373,S57, and Superior, the second
city, a population of 40,3S4. Be-
sides Superior there are six cities
having from $4,000 to $4,000 inhab-
itants. There are also ten cities hav-
ing from 10000 to $4,000, eighteen
from 5000 to 10000, thirty-seven
from $500 to 5000 and fifty-one
less than $500 inhabitants. The ag-
gregate population of the 124 cities
is 1,0S3.70S, or 46.4 per cent of the
total population OF the state.
On the cities included in this table.
Green Bay shows the highest percent
age of increase during the last dec
ade. namely, 35.1 per cent, and La
Crosse the lowest, SO per cent. The
rates of increase for all of the cities
have been lower during the last dec
ade than during the preceding dec
ade.
The relative growth of the popula-
tion of Milwaukee during the last
decade. 81 per cent, has been slower
than during any preceding decade.
The absolute increase, however, was
greater than during any previous
decade, with one exception
Wisconsin has seventy-one coun-
ties. The population of these coun-
ties ranges from 1891 in Florence
county to 433,1S7 in Milwaukee
county.
The following territorial changes
have been made in the counties OF
Wisconsin since 1900: The forma-
ton of Gates county in 1901 from
Big Bend. Dewey, Flambeau, Law
renee and Strickland towns in Chip
pewa county, the name of this new
county being changed to Rusk in
1906 the addition of part of Villas
county to Oneida county in 1901;
and the addition of part of Forest
county to Villas county in 1905.
The rates of increase for the fifty
counties that show increases range
from less than one-tenth of l per
cent in Columbia county to 1858 per
cent in Forest county, and the abso-
lutte increase of the same group of
counties range from eight in Column
bia county to 103,17O in Milwaukee
county. The population of the one
combination of counties increased
1926. or 81 per cent. Nineteen
counties decreased in population dur
ing the last decade, the rates of de-
cease ranging from four-tenths of /
per cent in SaL< county to "a per
cent in Pierce county, and the abso-
lutte decreases from 1877 in Sank
county to 1864 in Pierce county. The
aggregate increase of population
from 1900 to 1910 in the one COM
binatior of counties and in the fifty
counties that show Increases is 277,-
0S0; the aggregate decrease in the
nineteen counties that show de-
creases is 1892. The difference,
264,S1S, is, of course, the total in
crease of population in the state.
The total land area of the state is
55,256 square miles. The average
number of persons TO the square mile
in 1910 was 1872; in 1900 and 1890
it was 374 and 30.6 respectively.
The average number per square mile
for continental United States as a
whole in 1910 was 500.
Marathon county, with 1854
square miles, has the largest area,
and 0zaukee county, with 233 square
miles, has the smallest area. Mil
waukee county, containing Milwau-
kee city, has the highest density of
any county. namely, 1,S43.3 persons
per square mile, while Sawyer coun-
~. with Al persons per square mile.
has the lowest density.
There are twenty-nine counties in
which the population living in rural
territory decreased and in eight
counties there was a decrease in the
urban population. st. Croix and Iowa
being the only counties that de-
creased in population in both 1rbaB
and rural districts.