Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-31
TENNESSEE HAS
. 2,337,459; GAIN
OF 7 PER CENT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-Ten-
nessee, the population of which was
announced today by the census bu-
reau as 2,337,459, had the smallest
numeaical increase In the last ten
years of any decade since 1870 while
it's rate Of growth was the smallest
in it's history. It's numerical in
crease was 1850 and it's rate Of
growth 10 per cent in the ten years.
Tennessee ranked as seventeenth
most populous state ten years ago.
Of the six ESTATES Of which the 1920
population has been announced Ten
nessee shows next to the smallest
rate of growth. New Hampshire has
shown the smallest, 80 per cent.
Oregon has shown the highest rate,
1914 per cent; Rhode Island next,
with ia; Georgia third, with 1913
and Indiana fourth, with s.5.
Other figures announced follow:
Gypsum, Colo, 1854; Highland
Park, Ill. 6,1e7; Newbern, N. c., (re-
vised figures). 1913; West Bethle-
hem tq ys1a Pa sbe 2597 cou mage
increases since 1910: Highland
Park, 1858 or As. per cent; New
bern (revised), 2,237 or 22.5 per
cent; West Bethlehem township, ia
or IS per cent; Lake Gov County s,a Ill,
county, s1.777 or 1915 per cent,
Tennessee had ? population Of T.
184.789 in 1910, ranking it as 18th
most populous state in the union. It
showed an increase of 164,173, or 81
al to-, div1cr
with 1910. Tennessee's largest nu-
merical growth prior to the present
census was 283,S39, in the decade
|187O-80. It's largest relative growth
was in the decade 1790-1SO0 when
| the increase was 1853 per cent. Ten
| first federal census was taken was
| 1851, ranking it as 18th among the
states and territories.
In area Tennessee ranked as Gath
state in 1910 with land area OF
41,6S7 square miles, making ITS pop
which ranked it 18th among the
states in that respect.
The most rapid growth Of the
population of Tennessee was made
during the early decades. The pop
ulation of the state in 1900 was
nearly three times as large as it was
in 1890, in 1910 it was nearly two
and one-half times as large as in
1900, while in the next two decades,
1810-3O, the population increased
more than two and ene-half times.
From 1880 to 1910 the state grew
less rapidly, the rates varying con-
siderably, from decade to decade.
The highest rate Of increase in that
period, 1926 per cent, was for the de-
cade 187O-S0 and the lowest rate, 81
per cent for the decade 10000.
Comparison of the rates of inn
crease for the state with those for
the United States as whole, shows
that from 1890 to 1880 the increase
during the decade was much more
rapid for the state than for the
country. During that 40-year period
the population of the state increas-
ed little more than 10 times, while
that for the United States increased
less than three and one-third times.
From 1880 to 1910 the growth dur
ing each decade was less rapid for
the state than for the United States,
the population of the state increas
ing only three and one-ffth times
while that of the country'increased
little more than seven times.
The Tennessee region was organ
lied in 1890 as the Territory South
of the River Ohio and in 1895 admit
ted to the unoi as the state of Ten
nesSee.
Tho racord Of Growth of TenneS-