Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-10-20
BUREAU or THE CENSUS
The Following Gives the Age of
Ohio, The Number Attend
ing School and the Hitter
acy as Reported by the
Department of Com
merce at Washington
Age in Ohio

The Department of Commerce,
through the Bureau of the Census,
reports that according to the census
of 1920, 28.5 per cent, or a little over
one-tourth of the people in the state
0f Ohio are either infants or children
under Is years of age; 81 per cent
are young people Is to 10 years old;
i40.1 per cent, about two-fifths, are
men and women in the prime of life,
being from 2U to "A years old; while
I23.2 per cent, being as years of age
and over, are well along in middle
life if they have not reached old age.
The urban population as compared
with the rural shows some rather
striking differences in age, the per-
centage. 20 to "A years of age being
43.9 for the urban population, as COM
ipared with 1874 for the rural, while
the percentage under Is years of age
is 26.9 in the urban population as
against 31.5 in the rural. These
differences may indicate larger fam
lilies of children in the country than
in the city, but probably indicate
also the fact that country children
as they grow up have a tendency to
! iiock to the cities, thereby increasing
the active adult population of the
cities at the expense OF the rural dis
! tricts.
School attendance in Ohio
i According to the census of 1920
there are 1872, $50 children to Is
years of age in the state of Ohio
and Of this number 703 $50, or 900
per cent, were reported as attending
school In 1910 the percentage at
tending school was 941. OF the
children Ia and Is years of age in
1920, S7.8 per cent were attending
SCHOOL and of those 16 and II of age
44.4 per cent.
Of the white children 7 to 13 years
of age 94.2 per cent were attending
school in 1910 and 96.1 per cent in
1920 For colored children of the
same age the percentage in the same
interval increased from 91.8 to 95.8
The percentage of children attend
ing school was larger in the cities
i, than in the country districts, the per
centage of children in the urba1
population to 13 years of age being
, 96.3, while in the rural population
it was 95.6. "Urban," according tt
the census definition, includes al
cities and other Incorporated places O
$500 population or more.
j Illiteracy in Ohio
The Department of Commerce
through the Bureau of the Census
! reports that there are l31,0Ot
illiterate persons 10 years Of age ant
over in the state of Ohio, 'Illiterate
: meaning, unable to write. Of thi
number 28,535 are native whites O
native parentage, 5,191 are of foreigl
: Of mixed parentage and 84,387 are o
/, foreign birth. The number of i'll
Iiterate Negroes is 12,715. In tn
: total population 10 years of age an,
, over the percentage of illiteracy i
i2.8 which shows a diminution sine
: 1910, when it was 3.2. In the cas-
!, OF the Negroes the percentage lie
clined from Ill to 81, and in tn
. case of the native white of nativ
e parentage from IL to 10.
In the native white population bor
Z of native parents, while the percent
e age of illiteracy for adults 21 year
of age and over is 1.2, it is but O..
t of persons from 10 to 20 years o
:, age, and 0.3 for children 10 to 1
years of age, fact which is indica
;. tive of the extension of elementar
0 education, and makes it safe to pro
J. phesy that the percentage of Hitter
}. atse in this state will continue to de
t cline.
There is less illiteracy in the rura
3 districts OF the state than in tn
!, cities, the percentages being 2.2 fo
the rural population and 80 for tn
. urban. For the native white popu
e lation Of native parentage, the urba
percentage of illiteracy is 0.6 Will
. the rural is IA. In the case of tn
e Negro population the percentage i
IT in the urban population as agains
= 101 in the rural
/, By counties the percentage of il
literacy ranges from 10 in Jefferso
! County to 0.4 in Morrow County.
The percentage of foreign Dor
whites in Ohio is 11.8 and for Fulto1
J County is AZ per cent,