The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-10-13
CENSUS STATISTICS
FOR THIS STATE

According to the census of 1920, q. 2
per cent. or over one-fourth. of the
people in the state of Oregon are
either infants or children under Is
years Of age per cent are young peo-
pie Is to 19 years old 40.2 per cent,
about two-ffths, are men and women
in the prime Of life, being from 20 to
Al years old while 24.4 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
pared with 36.5 for the rural, while
the percentage under Is years Of age
is 23.7 in the urban population as
against 30.7 in the rural. These differ.
ences may indicate larger families of
children in the country than in the
city, but more probably indicate the
effect of immigration to cities either
of foreigners or of native population
coming from the country and thereby
increasing the active adult population
of the cities at the expense of the
rural districts.
Almost two-thirds of the population,
63.2 per cent, are old enough to vote,
being Il or over and in this class the
men outnumber the women in the ratio
of l20 to 100. The males of military
age, 18 to A, constitute 43 per cent of
the male population and 22.8 per cent
of the total population.
According to the census of 1920 there
are 80, 562 children to l3 years of age
in the state of Oregon and of this
number 94,3l2, or 94.7 per cent were
reported as attending school. In 1910
the percentage attending school was
80. 3, thus indicating an improvement
as regards school attendance between
1910 and 1920. Of the children IA and
Is years of agesin 1920, 906 per cent
were attending school and of those l6
and II years of age 59.7 per cent.
The percentage of children attending
schools was higher in the cities than
in the country districts, the percentage
for children in the urban population
to l3 years of age being 96,1 while in
the rural population it was 93.7. Cur
ban" according TO the census definition
includes all towns or cities and other
Incorporated places of 2. 800 population
or more.
According to the census of 1920 there
are 9.37 illiterate persons 10 years of
age and over in the state of Oregon,
''illiterate" meaning, unable to write
in any language. OF this number 1929
are native whites of native parentage.
46l are of foreign or mixed parentage,
5, l72 are of foreign birth, SAT are In
dians, 782 are Chinese. 400 are Japan
ese and 80 are negroes. In the total
population 10 years of age and over the
percentage of illiteracy is l.5, which
shows a slight diminution since 1910,
when it was l.9. In the case of the
native white of native parentage it is
GA, the same as it was in 1910.
BY counties the percentage of litter
acy ranges from 3. 7 in Jefferson county
to o. in Gillian county.
Thespopulation of the state of Ore
gon. as recently announced by the Bu
reau of the Census, Department of
Commerce, is 85.1 per cent native
white and IL per cent foreign-born
white. In 1910 the percentage foreign
born white was 1873.
The foreign-born white population,
which was ,00l in 1910, decreased
to l02, ISL IN 1920. a decrease of 0.8
per cent. The native white population
in the same period increased from
552, ,O89 to 666, 995 or 20.8 per cent.
Less than two-thirds CAT per cent?
of the white people in the state are
native Americans born of native par
ents, the total native white of native
parentage being 81, 726 while the for
eign element is represented by l02, l5l
foreign-born whites, 50, 827 native
whites who had foreign-boTn parents,
end 33, who had one parent foreign
born, the other being native.
The total population includes also
2, l44 Negroes, 1880 Indians, 8. $50 Chi.
nese, 4,l5l Japanese, l42 Filipinos, 5
Hawaiians, 80 Hindus, and 81 Koreans.
In every county of the state except
the percentage of foreign-born white
has decreased and in II of the 36
counties there was also decrease in
the number of foreign-bornswhites.
Percentage of foreign-born whites in
the total population of each county in
1920 and 1910, respectively:
State, 1870, 1873; Baker, 7.2. 1872;
Benton, Sc, &c; Clackamas. l4.6, 1872;
Clatsop, 292, 1878; Columbia, 1876,
23.O; Coos, ITO. 1874; Crook, 8.3, 8.5;
Curry. Z9, "a; Deschutes % 1917, r.;
Doug las, 6.5, IL; Gillian, 1l.2, 1913;
Grant, 68, 90; Harney, 81, 81; Hood
River, SO, 1877; Jackson, 5.0, 7.5;
Jefferson, CD S.3, n; Josephine, &C.
70; Klamath, 9.8, 1914; Lake, 7S, ia.
(D Organized since 1910.