The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-11-21
TYRRELL, DARE,
HYDE, SUFFER
HIGHEST LOSS
Population Declined Most in
Ten Years, Census Re-
port Shows

u, 30 anu SSCn pldceS VI Tie 1UO
counties of the state in loss of
population, according to the Uni
versity of N. C. reports. There are
a number of factors which con-
tributed to this situation, which
is the general observation of this
newspaper.
/. These counties were last to
get good roads, and suffering for
lack of transportation in compe-
titioned with more favored coun-
ties, it was difficult to earn as
good a livelihood as might be
made away from home. There was
a steady migration of citizens
through the years, in excess of an
ever decreasing birth rate, which
is the tendency of today-smaller
families on the average, being the
rule everywhere among white peo-
pie.
2. There has also been a decline
in the fishing industry as well as
Government employ which was an
important source of revenue in
these counties. A number of peo-
pie were employed by privately
owned shooting clubs, which have
all but disappeared from these
counties.
3. Many people left seeking bet
ter advantages, among them be-
ing roads, schools, electricity, en-
tertainment and transportation.
The counties of North Carolina
which have suffered the greatest
loss in population between the de-
cennial counts of 1910 and 1850
are in the east, and one in the
The four which have
lost heaviest are Tyrrell, Dare and
Hyde, and the remote mountain
county of Swain. In ten years Tyr
rell dropped to 5,048, loss of 81;
Dare dropped to 5,4O5, a loss of
1O.5; and Hyde dropped to 6,479,
a loss of 17.6 per cent, and Swain,
the heaviest loser lost 1876 per
cent, dropping to 1921.
There were 81 counties in the
state which lost in population.
Heaviest gains were made in coun-
ties where heavy permanent mill
tary installations have been made.
For Onslsow near a Marine base,
led the list. Others in order are
Cumberland, Craven, Orange, New
Hanover, Mecklenburg, Durham,
CASTOR, Carteret.
Beaufort county gained only 10
per cent. Its population shifted to
towns, so its rural loss in popula-
ton was 10.6.
There are some IL counties in
North Carolina with less than 10,-
900 population. These are as fol-
lows: Graham $685.; Pamlico, g.
993; Perquimans, 1902; Allegheny,
8,155; Camden, 1928; Gates, o.
555; Clay, 6,O06 Currituck 6,201;
Tyrrell 5,O48; Dare 5,4O5; Hyde,
6,479; and Swain 1921. Of these
IL smallest counties, Graham is
the only one having had a growth
in population during the ten years
following 1910. And this county
being one of those adjacent to the
Great Smokes National Park, may
owe its increase to the general
prosperity that has followed the
development of the Park, in that
region.
The following remarks about
North Carolina, its total popula-
ton, the growth of population,
from the U. N. C. News Letter,
are based on the Census discussion
of our chief population facts, char
acteristics and trends, mainly dur
ing the last ten years.
The State
North Carolina was one of the
Thirteen Original States. It's popu-
lation on April 1, 1850, according
to the Seventeenth Census, was A.
061, 1929. The state has land area
of 49,097 square miles. In 1850
there was an average of 1927 per-
sons per square mile as compared
with an average of 1927 in 1910.
the states, North Carolina
ranked tenth in poulation and
twenty-eighth in land area.
North Carolina had a population
of 393,751 in 1890. In 1850, 100
years later, it's population was
more than ten times as large. The
of the state increased
by ~ million in the 110-year per-
iod ending in 1900. The gain was
exceeded in the first 40 years of the
twentieth century, when the popu-
lation. rose from 1,893,S1O to 3d.
ST., 1923. The increase of 490,3O6
between 1910 and 1850 was second
only to the gain experienced in
the decade 1920 to 1880.
Urban and Rural Population
The 1850 urban population Of
North Carolina comprised 1885,
101 persons, or 1877 percent of the
population of the state. This popu-
lation was living in the lot urban