Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-01
NATIVE BORN 229, 1892
Foreigners Only IA per cent of
Population-Slieht Changes
in Decade

sition and characteristics of the popula-
ton of Vermont, as reported at the 18th !
decennial census, are given in an adj
vance bulletin soon to be issued by Di- |
rector Durand of the bureau of the !
census, department of commerce and |
labor. 1t was prepared under the su
pervision of William c.. Hunt, chief
statistician for population. Statistics
of color, nativity, parentage, sex,
citizenship, illiteracy, school attendance
and dwellings and families are pre-
sented They are grouped as follows:
Fol the State and counties; for cities of
over 10000; and for places of $500 to
10000. A previous population bulletin
for Vermont gave the number of in
habitants by counties and minor civil
divisions, decennial increase and density
of population, and the proportion urban
and rural. That the Forthcoming bull
letin cover all the principal topics of the
population census except occupations
and ownership of homes.
The white population is divided into
four groups; ~ Native, native parent
age, that is, having both parents born
in the United States; (2) native, foreign
parentage, having both parents born
abroad; (3) native, mixed parentage,
having one parent native and the other
foreign born; (4), foreign born.
Of the total population of Vermont,
229, 1882, or GA per cent. are native
whites of native parentage; 1905, or
21.1 per cent, are native whites of
foreign or mixed parentage; 40, 861, or
Ia per cent, are foreign born whites;
and 1,62l, or 0. 5 per cent. are negroes.
Corresponding percentages in 1900 were
65. 6, Oil, Is, and OF, respectively, the
comparison indicating very slight
changes in the color, nativity and par
entage composition of the population.
By counties, the proportion of whites of
foreign birth ranges from SO per cent.
in Addison to PIG in Essex, the pro-
portion native of foreign or mixed par
entage from II. 5 per cent. in Orange to
%. in Chittenden and Essex. In five
counties more than three fourths of the
population are native whites of native
parentage, and in two, Lamoille and
Orange, more than four-ffths.
MORE WHITES IN COUNTRY.
Of the urban population, 54.3 per
cent. are native whites of native par.
entage; of the rulal population, 70. 6 per
cent. The corresponding proportions
for native whites of foreign or mixed
parentage are 25.7 and 1863 per cent.
respectively. The percentage of foreign
born whites is 1872 in the urban popula
ton and g. in the rural; the percentage
of negroes is 0S in the urban and 0. l in
the rural.
In the total population of the State
there are 1S2, 56S males and 173, 3SS fe-
males, or 105. 3 males to 100 females.
In 1900 the ratio was 1889 to 100.
Among native whites the ratio is 101. 6;
among foreign born whites 1878 to 100.
In the urban population there are 100,
and in the rural 1903 males to 100 fe-
males.
STATE OF BIRTH.
Of the total native population, that is,
population born in the United States,
| 81.8 per cent We're born in Vermont and
1872. per cent outside the State; of the
native white population 17.9 per cent.
We're born outside the State and of the
native negro, per cent. Persons born
outside the state constitute larger pro-
portion of the native population in urban
than in rural communities.
OF the foreign born white population
of Vermont, persons born in Canada rep
resent 50. per cent Those of French
parentage, 29.4, and all others, 22.9) !;
Ireland, 90; Italy. 90; Scotland, 50;
England, 40; Russia, 40; Sweden, 81;
Austria, IS; Wales, ?. Germany, 1.6;
Hungary, IL; all other countries, 3.S.
OF the total white stock of foreign
origin, which includes persons born
abroad and also natives having one or
both parents born abroad. Canada con-
tributed 54.4 per cent French stock
1874, and all other, 22) Ireland, 15.7;
Italy, SO; England, 81; Scotland, 4.3;
Russia, 20; Sweden, 10; Wales, 1.3;
Germany, II; Austria, 1.2; Hungary,
06.
The total number of males q years of
ape and over is III 2O6 renresentinp
3l.9 per cent. of the population. Of
such males Gil per cent. are native
whites of native parentage, III
per cent. native whites of foreign or
mixed parentage, 2O.9 per cent. foreign
born whites, and 90 per cent. negroes.
Of the %, 759 foreign-born white males
of voting age, 10, 81, or As. 5 per cent,
are naturalized males of militia age, 1S