The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-12-28
CENSUS DATA SHOW
NUMERICAL ADVANCE
OVER FORMER COUNT
Rural as Well as Urban Popula-
ton in Nebraska Has Had a
Healthy Growth.

Wasnlngton, Dec. 25.--Following the
previous preliminary announcements. by
the census bureau, of the aggregate
populat1on of all places in the state of
Nebraska, as enumerated at the thir-
teenth census, taken as Of April IL.
1910, Director Durand. Of he cens1,s
bureau, department Of and
lapor issued today a statement giving
addltional advance details, of which
the more important relate to the states
urban and rural population. The in
formation was drawn from the advance
bulletin for Nebraska, pre-
pared under the supervision of william
=. Hunt, chief statistician for popula-
tlon In the census bureau.
Inc census bureau, for DOS of
discussion, has defined urban popula-
zion as that residing In cities and other
Incorporated places Of $500 inhabitants
or more, and rural population as that
residing outside of such Incorporated
places.
The urban territory OF the state in
1910 that Is the cities and incorpor-
ated villages of $500 INHABITANTS or
more-contained 310,S 1852 inhabitants, or
S6;l per cent Of the total population,
cent, lived in rural territory. The ur-
BAN territory as 1t existed In 190o-
that is, h cities then having 2.5OO
nhabitants or more, contained 252,7o2
innapltants, or 23.7 per cent of the to-
tal population, while S13,5 9S inhabit-
anus CT 7o.S per cent, lived iii rural ter
rltory. There has thus been a slight
increase In the proportion of urban pop
ulation. During the decade 1Sg0-1a0o
tnere was an apparent decrease In the
proportion OF urban population In the
state, but this may have been due to
t au osatcount OF the population of GER
tam cities in 1890. For continental
United States as a whole, the urban
population constituted 46.3 per cent of
the total population in 1910 and 4O.5
per cent of the total population In 1900.
Inc Az places of less than $500 inhabi-
tahts each nave an aggregate population
or 1892, or 04 per cent of the total
population of the state. These places com
prise 81 having from 1000 to $500 inhabi-
tanls each, with a combined population
OF so,25; 100 having from 500 to 1000 inhab-
ltants each, with a combined population of
os,45o. and 1853 having less than 500 inhabi-
tants each, with a combined population of
1854.
In all Incorporated places. including
those OF less than $500 inhabitants, there
was IN 1910 a population of 554, 144, or Asa
per cent of the population of the state.
Fourteen counties had a larger propor-
Coh and live counties q smaller proportion
OF urban population in 1910 thar in 1900.
Three counties which were wholly rural
counties were partly urban in 1910, while
TT counties and the two combinations of
counties were wholly rural at both
censuSes.
A comparison of the total population in
1910 of places having a population of not
icss than 2,5G0 each with the total popula-
lloh or the same places in 1900. shows an
increase of 1877 per cent. This represents
the rate of growth of urban communities
as thus define During the same period
the rural population, comprising that of
the remainder of the state. increased o 6
per cent. Urban population thus increased
nearly twice as rapidly as that of the
rural territory.
Inc population of Nebraska is I192. GA.
compared with a population OF 1,oSG. 300 in
1890, this represents an increase during the
last decade of 125, 914, or lhS per cent Dur
ing the same period the total increase for
the population of the state during the pre-
ceding Standardization, was ONLY three
tentllS of / per cent.
Nebraska has 50 cities. of which the
largest, Omaha, has a population of 1914, O96,
and Lincoln, the second city, a popula-
ton of 43,973. South Omaha. with 26. $50.
and Grand Island, with 1913 inhabitants,
are the only other cities in the state hay
ing over 10000 inhabitants, There are also
nine cities having from 5000 to 10000. l.
from 2,50 to 5000. and ST having less than
A,oNV ihhdD4tdiilS. Lie aggregate DODtld-
ton of the So cities is $3.50. 1888, or 32.7 per
cent of the total population of the state.
Grand Island shows the highest rate of
increase during the last decads. namely,
S6.7 per cent, and South Omaha the lowest,
1 per cent.
The total land area Of the state is 76. sos
square miles. The average number of per-
sons to the square mile in 1910 was l5.5; in
1860 and 1890 1t was 1873 and 1873 respective
ly. The average number per square mile
for continental United States as a whole
in 1910 was 800.
Cherry county, with 5,S79 square miles,
has the largest area, and Sarpy county
with 20 square miles, has the smallest
area. Douglas county, containing Omaha
city, has the highest density, namely, $685.
per square mile, and Hooker county, with
~ persons per square mile, has the lowest
density.
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