The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-09
Population
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5l.3 per cent. This rate, how
ever, would have ranked the city
only 18th In growth among such
communities In the previous dec
ade. when Dearborn's population
increased by 1888 per cent.
Dearborn ranked third in the
1930-4O figures with 1858 per
cent. Five of the ten fastest
growing cities in the state were
suburbs in the Detroit area.
Much of the rural growth of
the state centered in the Lower
Peninsula counties north of the
Bay City-Muskegon line. Of the
20 fastest growing counties in
the 1930-40 period, seventeen
were in this area; fourteen of
these had experienced popula-
ton losses in the previous dec
ade ranging as high as 31.9 per
cent.
Roscommon county's popula-
ton increased 1875 per cent to
lead all others in the state.
Michigan's 1910 population,
the Census Buerau reported, rep
resented a density of 1922 inha-
bitants per square mile of the
states total land area of 57,022
square miles.
Among the final figures re-
ported by the Census Bureau
were these:
Michigan's ranking cities: De-
troit, 1,623,452; Grand Rapids,
164,292; Flint 151,543; Saginaw
82.794; Lansing 1878; Pontiac
$685.; Dearborn 1884; Kala-
mazoo 54,097; Highland Park
50,810; Hamtramck 40, 839; Jack
son 49,656; Bay City 47,956;
Muskegon 47,697; Battle Creek
43,453; Port Huron 32,759; Wy
andotte 3O,618; Ann Arbor &c.
815; Royal Oak 25,087; Ferndale
22,523; Monroe 18,478.
Ranking counties: Wayne g.
OILS, 1923; Oakland 254, O68; Kent
246,338; Genesee 227,944; Ing
ham 130,616; Saginaw 100, 468;
Macomb 107,638; Kalamazoo
100,085; Muskegon 94,5O1; CAL
houn 94,206.
Final population figures of
other Michigan cities included:
Sault Ste. Mare, 15,847; Benton
Harbor, 16,668; Mount Clemens.
1889; Niles, 1923; Owosso,
14,424; Ionia, 1929; Grand
Haven, 8,799; Ludington, 8,7O1;
Hillsdale, 1881.
Fastest growth, cities over
10000: st. Clair Shores 54.3
per cent; Midland 28.5; Dear
born 1858; Lincoln Park 23.5;
Ypsilanti 1875; Birmingham ia;
Traverse City 1873; Sault Ste.
Marie 1872; Muskegon 1872;
Crosse Pointe Park 1872
Fastest growing counties: Ros-
common 1875 per cent; Oscoda
47.2; Midland AIS; Macomb
1875; Montmorency 36.5; Kali
kaska 35. 8; Ogemaw 1872; Clare
1913; Gladwin 26.4; Washte-
nav 1913. 4
Final population totals of Ill
Michigan counties follow:
Altoona, 5,463; Alger, 1O,167;
Allegan, 1880; Alpena, 2O,7o6;
Antrim, 1O.964; Arenac, 9,233;
Baraga, 1855; Barry, 22,613;
Bay, 74,981; Benzie. 1900; Ber-
rien, 89,l17; Branch. 25,845:
Calhoun, 94,206; Cass, 21,91O;
Charlevoix, 1901; Cheboygan,
13, 644; Chippewa, 27,8O7; Clare,
9.163; Clinton, 26,671; Craw-
ford, 3,765; Delta, 34,O37; Dick
inson, 28,731; Eaton, 34,124;
1871.
Genesee, 227,944; Gladwin,
1855; Gogebic, 31,797; Grand
Traverse, 1890; Gratiot, 80, 2O5;
Hillsdale, 29,O92; Houghton,
47,631; Huron, 1854; Ingham,
130,616; Ionia, 35,7lO; Iosco,
$3.50; Iron, 20,243; Isabella.
25,982; Jackson, 93,108; Kala-
mazoo, 100,O85; Kalkaska,
$3.50; Kent, 246,338; Keweenaw,
1904; Lake, 4,798; Lapeer, 49,
116; Leelanau, 8,436; Lenawee,
53,110; Livingston, 2O,863;
Luce, 1923.
Mackinac, 9,438; Macomb,
107,638 Manistee, 1880;
Marquette, 47,l44; Mason, 49,
378; Mecosta, 1902; Menomi-
nee. 1853; Midland, 1904;
Missaukee, 1854; Monroe, So
$40; Montcalm, 28,581; Mont
morency, $3.50; Muskegon,
81, sol; Newaygo, 1926; Oak
land, 254, 068; Oceana, 1882;
Ogemaw, 8,720; Ontonagon, H.
$50.
Osceola, $1,000; Oscoda a,
2,543; Otsego, 1927; Ottawa,
1850; Presque Isle, 1880;
Roscommon, 1858; Saginaw,
100, 468; st. Clair, 1922; st.
joseph. 31.749: Sanilac. 3O.114.