The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1920-10-14
MANY MORE TO CITIES|
OVER HALF OF POPULATION Isl
LIVING IN CITIES AND TOWNS.
~ PER CENT GAIN MADE BY
UNITED STATES SINCE
1910 CENSUS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

WesSsSn NeWspepsr Union MOVIE serNlce
Washington, Oct. S.-The tOtnl pop
ulation of continental United States is
106, 683, 106, an increase OF 13,7l0,S42,
or 14.9 per cent.
This figure does not include approx
ixately 12,25O.OO people living In the
country's outlying possessions. The
population OF Alaska md the total
classed under the military and naval
service abroad are yet to be an
nounced.
Director Rogers OF the census bu
reau In making the announcement OF
the country's population said thai
while the figures were preliminary ant
subject to correction. the final Off
cial population rs transmitted to Con
gress In December for appOrtiOnmentl
purposes WIS not likely to be greatly
different, although It might be slight
~ larger through the addition Of pOpu-
latlon for small sections Of territory
claimed not to have been properly can
vassed by the census cnumeratOrs In
January and which are now being In
veStigated.
THE population Of the United
States ~ announced today" said Mr..
Rogers, Els 1O5. 8S3. los. az compared
with q total In 1910 OF O1,972, 200 and
IL 1900 Of 75,804.575. This In an In
crease since 1910 Of l3.7lO.s42, or 14.0
per cent, .as compared with nm In
crease from 1900 to 1910 Of 1901
09l. or q per cent.
The large falling off In the rate of
growth for the country ~ . whole US
shown by these figures II due mainly
to an almost complete cessation Of Inn
migration for more than five years
preceding the taking Of the census In
January last, and In some degree also
to an epldemic Of Influenza ind to the
casualties resulting from the World
war.
''The results Of the census Of popu-
lation 10 1870 at first glance may
seem somewhat disappointing and
Opsn to question, possibly, hut the sub
stantial accuracy Of the enumeration
- January Ii fully borne out by com
parison with estimates based upon the
probable excess Of births over deaths
throughout the decade and the excess
Of immigration over emigration. From
all available data II may be roughly
estimated that the annual excess Of
births over deaths throughout the
United States II approximately per
cent"
The figures Of the preseEt census
also show that the trend Of pOpuln
ton from the country to the city has
become greatly accentuated since 1910
and that for the first time In the coun-
try's history more than half the entire
population Ii now living In urban ter.
rit0ry. a. defined by the census hn.
reau. That IN to say. Of the TO-. 8S3, los
persons enumerated In the fourteenth
census, preliminary fluctuations show
that 54.8lG20O. or $40 per cent. are
living In Incorporated places Of $500
Inhabitants or more. and that 6.Sss. sas.
or 4a4 per cent. In rural territory.
TO show more clearly the change
10 the proportion Of the population
living In rural territory compared with
ten years ago. the rural population
.aa be divided Into two classes, name
~. 9.o64, l90, or o. per cent OF the to-
,Ai population living In Incorporated
places Of less than $500 Inhabitants,
and 4I.002. 7O3, or SS.s per cent Of the
total population living In what may be
called purely country districts. At the
census Of 1910 the population living In
Incorporated places Of less than 1900
Inhabitants formed S.S per cent. while
the population living In purely country
districts formed AS per cent Of the
total population"