Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-03
BUREAU 81 VS. IS PER CENT
CENSUS TABULA7ING FINISHED
Majority of Population of United States Resides i'm
Cities, Urban Ceners Gaining IL Times as Fast
as Rural Districts Statistics Show.
IRy Associn,cd prcas.l


WASHINGTON. Oct. Cities are
increasing in population seven and u
half times as fast as the rural dis
tricts, the Census Bureau disclosed
tonight in n compilation OF figures
covering approximately IS per cent of
the new census. The figures indicated
that the completed census would
show the majority OF tho population
To DC city jewellers.
For the last ten years. rural growth
was only onc-third as great as 1t
was the previous decade. but the
cities almost maintained their rate
tants from 1910 to 1920 for each six
added during the preceding ten years.
small country hamlets and towns.
showed greater proportionntc in
crease than the purely rural districts.
The greater increases. however. were
by cities of 10000 or more inhaDi-
tants.
While the bureau attempts no cx-
PLANTATION OF the Reasons for the in
crcasing migration to the cities each
year during the decade. presumably
higher wages. shorter working days
and home convcniences attracted the
the war when wages In big industrial
ccnters went up rapidly.
Although showing a check in tho
rate OF population so, Ero ,rn for the
figures indicated that the complete
census would place the total NUN
Der OF Inhabitants of the continental
United States at approximately lo5.-
76S.l0o gain of 13.795.S+0 or 10 per
cent.
Cities will absorb practically all
that l..l72.S0O would reside in towns
OF $500 or more Inhabitants. while
10000 would be added 10 the farms
and the small hamlets. For the
be approximately 1,250.0o0.
will place the urban population a,
raj population al 50,e72. 900.
In 1910. the rural population out
stripped that of the cities by almost
$50 in the country and 42.G23.3s3 in
the cities.
For several censuses," said the
bureau announcement, the country
has not been growing as rapidly as
TO he greater at.this census than ever
before
The urban population. the an
nouncement added. increased ut 4
The rural districts. including the VIII ii.
lagos and towns under $500 popu-
lation. was "a per cent. For the
strictly farm territory. the rate was
80 per cent. and that of the villages
was Al per cent.
Among the urban ccntcrs, cities
exceeding $4,000 increased at 26.i per
cent: those OF 10000 TO $4,000 n, 26T
per cent. and those OF $500 TO 10000
at 1S.S per cent. From 1900 to 1910
the percentage rates OF increases for
these three ciassihcations of cities
were 35.G. 33.7 and 27.S respectively
Up TO ten days ago. the announce
ment said. the count of population
estimated as So per cent complete
had reached 92.09S.2Sl. For the pur-
poses Of comparison between cit;
and country, the bureau reduced the
| figures TO 90.5s6,742. by eliminating
| the population OF the insular pos
sessions. and places in the Unitct
| States.
OF this total population. that elias
! slheh as urban was reported as ST.
| t94. Iie: the cities over $4,000 popu
lntion having 32.522.038 inhabitants
| those OF 10000 to- $1,000 having IL
77l,224. and those OF $500 10 10. 90,
having s.1so4S7. The. rural popula
| ton was 32.o25.96i In the countr,
districts and 6.066.032 in villages un
| der $500 in population.