Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-09
SOUTH CAROLINA
AND ALABAMA
GAIN INCENSUS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-A1abama,
South Carolina and Wyoming made
substantial gains in population dur
ing the last ten years, while Nevada,
the smallest state in the union in
point of population, became the third
state to show a decrease.
The census bureau announced to-
day that Alabama has a population
of 2,347,295, an increase of 209,202,
or 9.8 per cent over 1910. The state
thus passed Tennessee in the stand
ing of the states.
South Carolina has a population
of 1,683,662, which is 168,262, or Ill
per cent greater than that of 1910.
The state, however, fell short of it's
relative growth in 1910 by 2 per cent.
Wyoming, next to the last popu-
lous state, has a population of 1884,
402, which is an increase of 48,437,
or 1922 per cent compared with the
thirteenth census. The state show
ed it's second largest numerical
growth. but it's percentage increase
was the lowest.
Nevada's population was announc-
ed as 77,407, a decrease of 4,468, or
SIS per Cent. 1t was the states third
population decline, the decade ended
with 1890 showing it to have de-
creased 23.9 per cent and during the
following ten years it's loss was 10.6
The state, however, more than made
up It's first two losses during the
decade 1900-10, when-/it increased
1914 per cent.
Alabama places: Five Points, l.
$50; Lafayette, 1,911; Lanet, 1876.
A1aba1na's Growth
Alabama had population of g.
138,O93 in 1910, ranking it as eight
zenith most populous state in the
union. 1t showed an increase of
S09,396, or 1863 per cent, for the ten
years ending with 1910. Alabama
largest numerical increase prior to
the present census was 1926 in the
decade 189O-19O0. Its largest rela-
cade 182O-1S30, when the increase
was 1920 per cent When it's first
fderal census was taken in 1920, Ala
bama~had a population of 127,901.
In area Alabama ranked as twenty
eighth state in 1910, with land
area of 51,279 square miles, making
its population average Alt per
square mile, which ranked as thir-
teenth state in that respect.
Alabama was organized as a terri
tory in 1917 and appears in the fed
eral census reports for the first time
in 1920. During the decade 1920
1880 the growth was very rapid, the
increase having been 1920 per cent.
In the following decade the rate of
increase was 900 per cent. In 1910
the population of the state was some
what over four and one-half times
as large as it was in 1920. During
the next seventy years, to 1910, the
population increased at much slow
er rate, the percentages of increase
ranking from 30.6 in 1850 to 1863 in
1910, except for the decade 1901 $40,
when the rate of growth was only "a
per cent. In 1910 the population of
the state was slightly more than
three and one-half times as large as
it was in 1910.
Comparison of the rates of in
crease for the state with those for
the United States shows that from
1920 to 1910 the increase during each
decade was much larger for the
state than for the country as a
whole. From 1910 to 1910 during
every decade except one the increase
for the state was lower than those
for the United States and IN that
| one decade, 1890-1900, the rate for
the state exceeded that of the coun-
try as a whole by, only one-tenth of
l per cent.
The record of growth of Alabama's
population follows: