Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-09-23
the Total Population Of Each
County
School Attendance in Vermont

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School Attendance in Vermont
According to the census Of 1920 there
are 46, l75 children to l3 years of age
in the state of Vermont, and OF this
number 1886 or 939 per cent were re-
ported as attending school. In 1910 the
percentage attending school was 96.I
OF the children II and ID years OF age
in 1920, S62 per cent were attending
school and of those Is and Il years OF
age AGO per cent.
OF the white children to l3 years |
of age 9j.7 per cent were attending
school in 1910 and 939 per cent in 1920 /
Age in Vermont
According to the census of 1920, 2S.5 /
per cent, or about threetenths OF the |
people in the state of Vermont are eth /
er infants or children under ID years on
age; 81 per cent are young people ID
to 10 wears old; 34A per cent, slightly
over third, are men and women in
the prime of life, being from 70 to IA
years old; while 2S.5 per cent, being 10
wears 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 strlk-
ing differences in age, the percentage
20 to A. wears OF age being $50 for the
urban population as compared with 81
& for the rural, while the percentage iun-
der u years of aye is 269 in the urban
population aas against 292 in the rural.
These differences NAV indicate larger
families OF children in the country than
III the urban communities, but more
probably indicate the influx OF adult
foreign immigrants in cities and the TACT
that the native country children, as
thew grow up, have likewise tenden-
CIV to flock to the city, thereby adding
to the active adult city population at
the expense Of the rural districts There
is a marked difference also in the per
Centaqe 10 years OF age and over-25.9
per cent for the urban population and
297 for the rural. 10 sum up, in the
country as compared with the city,
there IRE relatively more children and
old people and relatively fewer people
in the prime OF life Urban 1t may
he explained, as the term is used in the
Census. includes all incorporated cities
and villages of over $500 population.
Inst about three-hfthS OF the pOpula-
ton, GIG per cent, are old enough to
vote. being p or over; and in this caSs
the men outnumber the women in the
ratio OF 1903 to 100. The males Of mill
tarv or fighting age, IS to Al, constitute
373 per cent Of the male population
and 1879 per cent of the total popula-
ton.
IlIteracy
According to the census OF 1920 there
are S,ASS illiterate persons 10 years OF
age and over in the state OF Vermont
"illiterate' meaning, unable to write
in any language. OF this number l,9Ol
are native whites of native parentage
1.7O9 are of foreign or mixed parentage
and 4,S37 are of foreign birth. The
number of iliterate Negroes is %. In
the total population 10 years OF age
and over the percentage Of illiteracy /:
80. which, it is gratifying to note
shows a diminution since 1910 when II
was 81. In the case of the Negroes the
percentage increased from as to 62
and in the case Of the native white o
native parentage declined from II IL
H. .,..
BY counties the percentage OF Hit
eracy ranges from so in Chittendei
County to Ia in Orange County
Percentage Of Illiteracy by Counties
The following statement shows tn
percentage of illiteracy in the coun
ties of Vermont An illiterate, as de
fined in the census, is person 10 year
of age or over who is unable to writ
either in English or any other language
The percentages are based upon Tn
total population 10 years OF age an
over, or the total native white, or to
tai foreign-born white, as the case ma
be.
County Total Native Forr
white born