"The average size of families was 4.7 persons in 1900, against 5 in 1880 and 5.6 in 1850. Of the 15,963,965 private families in 1900, 14,042,546 had male heads and 1,921,419 female leads. †Of 7,218,755 persons owning their homes in 1900, 5,064,848 were native whites, 1,730,970 were foreign whites, 372, 444 were negroes, 48,319 were Indians, and 2,274 Chinese and Japanese. The density of population is obtained by dividing the population of each State and Territory and of the United States by its total land area in square miles at each census. In computing density of population for the United States, the areas and population of Alaska and Hawail in 1900. of Alaska in 1890, and of Indian Terrritory in 1860, 1870, and 1880 are not considered. The area of Indian reservations, outside of Indian Territory, is included in the area of the States and Territories in which they are severally situated, and in that of the United States, prior to 1890, although the population of these Indian reservations was not ascertained, and, for this reason, cannot be considered in figuring density of population at the censuses prior to 1890. The density of population of the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawall, according to the Census of 1900, is 25.6-that is, there were in the United States in 1900, on the average, 25.6 inhabitants to the square mile, using land surface only. At the Census of 1790 there were less than 6 inhabitants to the square mile, so that the density of the population of the country has increased in 110 years more than fivefold, although the land area of the country in 1900, exclusive of Alaska and Hawall, was more than three and one-half times what it was in 1790. NOTK The figures relating to conjugal condition are not absolute, as the statements as to those married and unmarried are apt to be incorrectly reported, partly through unintentional misstatement partly through a desire to conceal the facts. For instance, an incorrect return may be made through lack of knowledge, in the case of boarders and lodgers (particularly meu) who are reported as single when in fact they are or have been married; or from motives of concealment, in the case of divorced persons who report themselves as single, of couples who have separated but are not legally divorced, or of persons who are not lawfully married. These returns do not apply to the literacy of persons of less than ten years of age. For enumeration of Illiterates by States, see table of ** Population According to School Age and Voting Age." 28,164 4.2 Japanese. 36,844 5.0 Indian....... 653,298 89.1 Chinese.... Native white-for Foreign white... 1,217,280 86.7 33,498 2.4 61,191 4.6 9,307 0.3 Aggregate....... 1,403,212 100.0 670,094 100.0 733,118 100.0 These returns embrace only persons of ten years of age and over. BOTH SEXES. MALES. FEMALES. Wisconsin. 730,685 726,950 661 570,715 313 188 257,527 567,213 1,006 31.136 Wyoming.. 215 37.898 26,563 11,335 36,262 481 1.636 Total. 27.500 26.607 26,110,788 22,490,211 3,500,194 21,329 819 16,227,285 5,102,534 19,036,143 2,065,989 2,326,295 Including all persons in the military and naval service of the United States. Including all persons of negro descent. The whole number of persons of school age-that is, from 5 to 20 years of age, inclusive-in 1900 is 26,110,788, of whom 21,573,492 are from 5 to 17 years of age and 4,537, 296 from 18 to 20 years of age. These figures include, however, 217.523 persons of school age reported in Alaska, Hawaii, Indian Territory, and on Indian reservations. Eliminating the latter from the account there are native born. 24,689,118, foreign born, 1.204,147; native white (native parents), 14,775,476; native white (foreign parents), 6.371.221; foreign white, 1,193.443; colored, 3,553, 125; persous of negro descent, 3, 485, 188; males, 12.972.994; females, 12,920,271. The number of males of voting age is 21,329,819, of which there are native born. 16,227.285; foreign born, 5, 102,534; native white (native parents), 10.636.898; native white (foreign parents), 3,466,721; foreign white, 4,932,524; colored, 2, 293,676; persons of negro descent, 2,065,589. The ratio of population to males of voting age in the entire country is 3.6. This ratio varies, however, for the several elements of the population, the ratio of negro population to negro males of voting age being 4.3. AREA. According to the Census of 1900, the largest county in the United States is Custer County, Montana, which has 20, 490 square miles. The smallest is Bristol County, Rhode Island, which has 25 square miles, FOREIGN Population of the United States. (Compiled from the Reports of the Census of 1900.) POPULATION ACCORDING TO COUNTRY OF BIRTH. 11.927 Germany 2,669,164 Portugal. 87,144 Roumania. 15,043 Australia... 7.041 Hungary.. 145.815 Belgium.. 29.848 India Bohemia 156.999 Ireland.. 1,619.469 Italy... 484,703 Sweden.. 574,625 Canada (French)†. 395,427 Japan..... Central America.. 3,911 Luxembourg. 3.042 Turkey. 9,949 China .......... 106,659 Mexico 103,445 Wales 93,744 Cuba......... 11,159 14,468 Denmark. 154,616 Pacific islands§. 2,659 Other countries... 2,587 Poland (Austrian).. 58.503 Born at sea... 8,310 Europet 2,272 Poland (German).. 150.232 Finlaud 63,440 Poland (Russian)....... 154.424 *Except China, Japan, and Except Cuba and Porto Rico. India. tIncludes Newfoundland. Not otherwise specified. Total foreign born. 10, 460, 085 (Except Philippine Islands. These returns embrace persons born in foreign countries as well as native born persons having one or both parents born in foreign countries. NUMBER OF INHABITANTS JUNE 1, 1900, TO EACH VOTE CAST NOVEMBER 6, 1900. Salt Lake City, Utah.2.73 Rochester, N. Y.... 4.60 Buffalo, N. Y....... 5.17 Boston, Mass....... 6.70 This table shows how very wide of the mark in nearly all of these cities would be an estimate of the population made by multiplying the vote cast by any single ratio, and that this method of estimating à city's population is without foundation. This table shows that the Prairie region and the New England hills include over three-tenths (31 per cent), and with the Lake region and the Interier timbered region over one-half (54,3 per cent,) of the population of the country. Negro Population of the United States. COMPILED FROM BULLETIN NO. 8 OF THE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS. (For negro population of the United States by States In 1900, see page 397.) No enumeration of mulattoes was taken in 1900. The returns of 1890 include quadroons and octoroons. The whole United States being 100 per cent., the ratios show what proportion of the whole resides in each specified State. Less than one-tenth of one per cent. The ten counties in the United States having the largest negro population are, in percentages, Isaquena, Miss., 94.0; Tensas, La., 93.5; Madison, La., 92.7: East Carroll, La., 91.6; Beaufort, S. C., 90.5; Tunica, Miss., 90.5; Washington, Miss., 89.7; Coahoma, Miss., 88.2; Leflore, Miss., 88.2; Bolivar, Miss., 88.1. The negro population of cities having the largest number of negroes in 1900 was: Washington, D. C., 86,702; Baltimore, Md., 79,258; New Orleans, La., 77,714: Philadelphia, Pa., 62,613; New York City, 60,666; Memphis, Tenn., 49,910: Louisville, Ky., 39,139; Atlanta, Ga., 35,727 St. Louis, Mo., 35,516; Richmoud, Va., 32,230; Charleston, S. C., 31,522; Chicago, Ill., 30,150: Nashville, Tenn., 30,044; Savannah, Ga., 28,090. More than three-fourths (77.3 per cent.) of the negroes live In the country districts. Illiteracy among negroes is about seven times as common as among whites. There are 3,992,337 negroes in Continental United States engaged in gainful occupations. The death rate of negroes in the registration area in 1900 was 30.2 per cent.; that of whites in the same area was 17.8 per cent. The proportion of negro children to negro women 15 to 49 years of age was largest in 1880 and smallest in 1900. There has been uniformly a larger proportion of negro children than of white children. That difference more than doubled between 1860 and 1880, but in 1900 it was less than half what it was in 1880 and less than at any other census except 1860. Though the negroes have a larger proportion of children than the whites, it has been noticed that the whites of the South have a larger proportion than the whites in other sections of the country. At the two censuses preceding the Civil War, the proportion of children for the two races at The immediate effect of the Civil War and Reconstruction, if the South was substantially the same. the figures of 1870 may be trusted to that extent, was to reduce the proportion of children among Southern whites by about one-eighth, and among negroes by about one twenty-fifth. The following decade saw an increase in the proportion for each race, but as the decrease among the negroes, 1860 to 18.0, has been less, so was the increase, 1870 to 1880, greater. But between 1880 and 1900 there was a decrease of 160 in the number of negro children at the South to 1,000 negro women, and a decrease of only 75 white children to 1,000 white women. As a result, in 1900 there were for the first time more white children than negro children at the South to 1,000 women. NEGRO SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1790. New Hampshire, 158; Vermont, 17: Rhode Island, 952; Connecticut, 2,759; New York, 21,324; New Jersey, 11,423; Pennsylvania, 3,737; Delaware, 8,887; Maryland, 103,036: Virginia, 293,427; North Carolina, 100,572; South Carolina, 107,097: Georgia, 29,264, Tennessee, 3,417: Kentucky, 11,880. Total slaves, 697,897. Total population, 3,929,214." |
