Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-22
JERSEY HAS MORE
MEN THAN WOMEN
u. s. Statistics Just BuIletined
Show There Are 1929 Males
for Every 100 Females.

WASHINGTON. d. c.. Feb. 22.-
The composition and characteristics
of the population of New Jersey, as
reported at the Thirteenth Decennial
Census. are given in an advance bull
letin, soon to be issued.
OF the total population OF New
Jersey, zoos, 1909, or 1913 per cent. are
native whites of native parentage;
III, 1917, or 30.7 per cent. are native
whites of foreign or mixed parentage;
65S, 1888, or 25.9 per cent are foreign
born whites; and $3.50, or S.5 per
cent are negroes. The corresponding
percentages in 1900 were 49, 29.5,
22s and 81, respectively, the proper
ton of foreign born whites having
increased during the decade. BY
counties the proportion of foreign
born whites ranges from 6.1 per
cent in Salem County to 1913 per
cent in Passaic, and the proportion
of native whites of foreign or mixed
parentage from 81 per cent. in Salem
to Ala per cent, In Hudson County.
OF the urban population. S3.6 per
cent. are native whites of native par
entage; of the rural, 5S.7 per cent
The corresponding proportions for
native whites of foreign or mixed
parentage are 341 and 20.1 per cent
respectively. The percentage of for
eign-born whites is 2s.S in the urban
population and 17.3 in the rural; the
percentage of negroes is "a in the
urban and 3.9 in the rural.
In the total population of the state
there are 1,2S6,46 males and 1,250,7
females or 1929 males to 100 females
In 1900 the sexes were nearly
equal. Among native whites the
ratio of males to females is SO to 100
and among foreign born whites 1882
to 100 In the urban population there
are 101 males to 100 females, and in
the rural, 10s.S.
OF the foreign-born white popula-
ton of New Jersey. persons born in
Germany represent 1871 per cent.
Italy. lib Russian, 14.2: Ireland, 1876:
Austria, S,6; England, rs; Hungary,
~; Scotland. 81; Holland 10:
Sweden. lie; all other countries, II
per cent. OF the total white stock
of foreign origin. which includes
persons born abroad and also natives
having one or both parents born
abroad. Germany contributed 23.2 per
cent; Ireland, 49, Italy, 1874; Rus
STA. 1872; England. S.5: Austria, 61;
Hungary. AS: Scotland, 2.7: Holland.
10; Canada, Ia; Sweden, 1.3 per cent
There are 1852 illiterates in the
State, representing Sc per cent of the
total population 10 years of age and
over, as compared with SO per cent
in 1900. The percentage of illiteracy
is 14.7 among foreign-b born whites, 80
among negroes, and 90 among native
whites.
In the population Is years of age
and over, S7.9 per cent. of the males
are single and S1.6 per cent of the
females. The percentage married is
57.3 for both males and females, and
the percentage widowed "A and 10.7,
respectively. The percentages of
those reported as divorced, o. for
both sexes, are believed to be too
small. because of the probability that
many divorced persons class them
selves as single or widowed.
The total number of dwellings in
New Jersey is 4O7295 and the total
number of families sos. 202, there be-
ing 1871 families to each 100 dwell
ings. The average number of per-
sons per dwelling is SO and the aver
age number per family As.