Twelfth Census of the United States.

CENSUS BULLETIN ..

=--"-~·=·=-=-==,======No. 65. WASHINGTON, D. C. June 8, 1901.

POPULATION OF INCORPORATED PLACES IN 1900.

This bulletin, prepared under the direction of Mr. on population for 1890, but a table (part I, page 378) is WILLIAM C. HUNT, chief statistician for population, presented giving the population of places having 1,000 relates to incorporated cities, towns, villages, and bor­ inhabitants or more, including towns of like population in oughs, and gives the population, according to the returns the New England states, with the exception of Connecticut, of the ':l1welfth Census of the United States, of all such where a slightly different plan was pursued. There were places, so far as it has been returned by the census in 1890, including the New England towns, 3,715 such enumerators separate from the population of the town­ places, and a brief analysis of the aggregate population ships, precincts, -districts, etc., of which they form a repres~nted by these places was presented in census bulle­ part. tin 165, published Feb:ruary 19, 1892. In ordei· that the In accordance with the provisions of section 12 of the statements contained in said bulletin for 1890 may be census act, approved March 3, 1899, by which a separate made comparable, even approximately, with similar results enumeration of all incorporated places was required, every for 1900, it is necessary to exclude New England towns effort was made by this office to insure a complete return and, as far as possible, all unincorporated places in 1890, of the population of each incorporated city, town, village, inasmuch as the tables of population comprehended by this and borough within the United States, and it is believed bulletin fo1· 1900 relate to incorporated places only, no that the list given in table 8 of this bulletin, comprising, attempt having been made in the present census to secure in all, 1o,602 places, includes practically every incorpo­ a sepamte enumeration of unincorporated places. For the rated place in the several states and territories compre­ purposes of this comparison, therefore, after excluding the hended by the Federal census taken as of June 1, 1900. New England towns, it has been assumed, for want of At the census of 1890, in presenting the population of more definite information, that if a place for which the states and territories by minor civil divisions (report on population was given separately in 1890 is included in the population, part 1, page 47), an attempt was made to state list of incorporated places returned in 1900 it was similarly separately the population of all places, incorporated and incorporated in 1890, the inclusion under this plan of cer­ unincorporated, having a certain number of inhab~tants, tain places not in reality incorporated offsetting in great the limit of population ranging higher or lower according measure the omission of places which were in fact incor­ to the conditions of settlement in the various sections of porated at .the time of the census enumerMition in 1890, but the country; in other words, an arbitrary limit of popula­ for which the population was not separately returned by the tion was fixed for each state aud ter'ritory, being as low as census 1:mumerators. By this plan the number of places 200 in some cases, ancl a separate statement was made for having a porulation of 1,000 or more in 1890 is reduced to every plaee, whether incorporated or not, having upwards 2, 835, representing, approximately, that number of incor­ of the amount of population :fixed upon for the state or porated places, and if by the same process the number of · territory in which it was situated, but ignoring all places incorporated places having under 1,000 inhabitants in 1890 having a less amount of population, so far as this (1ould be is determined, it is :found that there were, approximately, determined from the returns of the census enumerators. 4, 743 incorporated places having a population of less than No complete summary of the population of these incor­ 1,000 in 1890, making a total of 7 ,578 incorpoi-ated places porated and unincorporated places is given in the report in 1890 as against 10, 602 such places in 1900. The number CP 18M: 2

'I1ABLE 2.-POPUI.;ATION OF CITIES HAVING 100,000 IN­ of incorporated places at the two censuses are classified by HABITANTS OR MORE IN 1890 AND 1900, IN THE size in table 1, that is, according to the respective amounts ORDER OF THEIR HANK AT EACH CENSUS.-Oontinued. of population represented by them. Cities of 500,000 antl wider 1,000,000. TABLE 1.-NUMB1£R OF INCORPOHATED PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES, Cl;ASSIFIED BY SIZE: 1890 AND 1900. 1000 lSllO ======;====·· NUllfBER OF PLACES. Rela­ Rela­ Popula­ Popula­ CLASSIFIED SIZES. tive CITIES. tion. tive CITIES. tion. 1900 1890 rank. rnnk:.

10, 602 7,578 4 St. Louis, Mo------­ 575, 238 4 Brooklyn, N. Y ------806, 343 Aggregi:te ------· 5 Boston, Mass 560, 892 6 Baltimore, Md------1 ______508, 957 Places of 1,000,000 and over------~ 3 / Places of 500,000 and under 1,000.000 ______.:i 1 Places of ·100,000 and under 500,olfo ______3 Cities of 400,000 and under 500,000. Plac1;s of ::;oo,ooo and umler 400,000______5 ------9 l'luees of 200,000 arnl under 300,00Q ______---- 8 l'lncl•S of 100,UOO awl under 200,000______19 12 '1Gl, 770 Plaecs of 50,000 aud under 100,000______4~ 30 51 St. Louis, T\fo ------1 Places of 25,000 and under 50,!JOO______8° 66 6 Boston, Mass ------4-18,477 7 Baltimore, Md ______434:, 439 Plu(;es of 20,l){)O aml under 25,ooo______~2 41 Places of 15,000 aml under :.!y,ooo______~~ 46 l'laees of 12,000 and under fo,000------ID 55 PJaees of 10,000 and under 12,000------62 71 Cities of soo,ooo and under 1,00,000. l'laee~ of 9,000 and urnler 10,000------50 30 Places of ~.ooo and under 9,000------~~ 49 Places of 7,000 and under s,ooo______ID 57 7 Cle\·eland, Ohio----- Places of tl,UOO and under 7,000------··------· ---- 98 63 8 Buffalo, N. Y ------352,387 Pla!'es of f.,ooo and under 6,ooo______147 88 9 San Francisco, Ca,L_ ""342, '"782 I Places of 4,00U and under fi,000______21~ 150 10 Cincinnati, Ohio ____ 325, 902 Places of 3,000 and under 4,000.------347 267 11 Pittsburg, Pa------321, 616 I Places of 2,iiOO aml under 3,oou______257 203 Plaees of 2,000 and under 2,5UU______418 304 Place,.; of 1,500 and under 2,000------_____ 601 478 Cities of '200,000 and niulcr 300,000. Pl!iet•s of 1,0\iO and under 1,500______1, 116 I 809 I'Jaces of iiOO and under 1,000 ------·- ____ 2, 501 1,909 2, 83'1 Places under 500 ------4, 318 12 New Orleans, La _____ 287, 1():1 8 San Francisco, CnL __ 298, 997 13 Detroit, Mich------• 285, 70·1 9 Cincinnu.ti, Ohio _____ 291l, 908 14 Milwaukee, \Vis ______285, 315 10 Clevelaurl, Ohio----- 2Gl, 353 If cities with a population of 100, 000 or more are taken 15 Washington, D. C---- 278, 718 11 Bnffolo, N. Y ------2ii5,6ll4 16 Newark, N. J ------246, 070 12 New Orleans, La _____ 2-12, 039 to represent the large cities of the country, there are, as 17 Jersey City, N. J ----- 206, 433 18 PittRburg, Pa ------2:lS,H17 18 Louisville, Ky------. 204, 731 14 Washington, D. Q ____ 230,392 shown by table 1, 38 such cities in 1900 as compared with 19 Minneapolis, Minn __ 202, 718 15 Detroit, Mich ______205,876 16 Milwaukee, Wis----- 204,,1138 28 in 1890. Of the 38 large cities in 1900, 3 contain upwards of a million inhabitants, the same as in 1890, Cities of 100,000 a'/Ul u11de1· i!!00,000. ·while for cities having between 500, 000 and 1, 000,000 20 Providence, R. L---- 175, 597 17 Newark, N, J ------·-- 181, 8~0 inhabitants those in 1900 number 3 as against 1 only in 21 Indianapolis, Ind ____ 169, 164 18 l\finnei1poliA, Minn __ 1()4, 7a8 22 Kansas City, Mo _____ 163, 752 19 Jersey City, N .•J ----- Hi3, 003 1890. There are no cities in 1900 containing between 23 St. Paul, Minn ______163, 065 20 Louisville, .Ky------rn1, 129 24 Rochester, N. y ______162, 608 21 Onutha, Nebr------140, 452 400,000 and 500,000 inhabitants, but at the census of 1890 25 Denver, Colo ------133, 859 22 Rochester, N. y ______183, 891l 26 Toledo, Ohio ______131, 822 23 St. Paul, Minn ______1:33, 156 theTe were 3 cities of this class. On the other hand, 27 Allegheny, Pa------• 129, 896 24 Kansas City, Mo _____ 1:32, 716 Columbus, Ohio ______Providence, H. L ____ there are 5 cities in 1900 with a population of between 28 125, 560 25 182, 1,16 29 Worcester, J\Iass ----- 118,421 2G Denver, Colo -----~-- lOli, 713 300,000 and 400,000, but in 1890 there were no cities 30 Syr11cuse, N. Y ------108, 374 27 Indianapolis, Ind ____ 105, •186 31 New Haven, Conn ___ 108, 027 28 .Allegheny, I'a ------105, 287 32 P11terson, N. J ______105, 171 coming between these limits of population. The cities 33 l?all River, Mass _____ 104, 863 34 St. Joseph, Mo------102, 979 having between 200, 000 and 300, 000 inhabitants number 35 Omaha, Nebr ------102, 555 36 Los Angeles, CuL ____ 102, 479 8 in 1900 as against !:.l in 1890, while for cities of from 37 Memphis, Tenn ______10'2,3'20 100, 000 to 200, 000 inhabitants there are 19 m 1900 as 38 Scranton, Pa ______102, 026 compared with 12 in 1890. The cities having 100,000 inhabitants or more in 1890 and 1900 are presented in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia each has more detail in table 2, arranged according to their population than a million inhabitants in 1900, the same as in 1890, at each census. but since the latter census the area and population of New York city have been increased greatly, and with its TABLE 2.-POPULATION OF CITIES HAVING 100,000 IN­ 3,437,202 inhabitants it now represents the second largest HABITANTS OR MORE IN 1890 AND 1900 IN THE ORDER OF THEIR RANK AT EACH OENsus.' city in the world, London alone exceeding it in population. The city of Brooklyn, which had a population of 806, 343 Cities of 1,000,000 and oi•er. in 1890, has become since 1890 a part of New York city and no longer exists as a separate municipality .1 St. Louis, 1900 I! mo Boston, and Baltimore, each of which had in 1890 upwards Rela-1 of 400,000 inhabitants, have now passed the half-million tive CITIES. Popula- l'1:R~la-1 Popula­ rauk. tion. r~~~. CITIES. tion. mark, and with the first three cities named constitute the

1 six great cities of the country. 1 New York, N. y ____ _ 2 Chicago, lll ______3,~37.,;~ 11-.-1 Ne~\' York. N. y ____ _ 1,515,301 1,69~,oiu /1 2 Clucago, llL ______8 Philadelphia, Pa ___ _ 1, 099,850 1 1, 290, 697 , ! 3 Philadelphia, Pa ___ _ 1, 046, 964 For a fuller consideratio:µ. of the population of New York city 1 as now constituted, see :page 59. 3

Referring again to table 1, it is seen that somewhat are 4,318 in 190-0 and 2,834 in 1890, representing, when more than three-fifths of all the incorporated places at each combined, 6,819 out of a total of 10,602 places in 1900 of the two censuses named constitute places having less and 4,743 out of a total of 7,578in1890. than 1, 000 inh::tbitants ; that is to say, of places of 500 The number of incorporated places in 1890 and 1900 are and under 1, 000 inhabitants there are 2, 501 in 1900 and presented in detail for certain classified sizes by states and 1, 909 in 1890, and of places of under 500 inhabitants there territories in table 3.

TABui 3.-NUMBER OF INCORPORATED PI..1AOES, OLASSIFIED BY SIZE, BY STATES AND TERRITOIUES: 1890 AND 1900.

TOTAL 200,000 AND 100,000 TO 50,000 TO 25,000 TO 15, 000 TO 10,000 TO 8, 000 TO NTTMDER. OVER. 200,000. 100, 000. 50, 000. !!5, 000. 15, 000. 10, 000. STA'l'ES AND TEitRITORIES. 1900 1890 1900 1890 1900 1890 1900 1890 1900 1890 1900 1890 1900 1890 1900 1890 ------1------The United St1tteR______10, 602 7,578 1!l 19 12 40 30 83 GG 124 87 137 121l : 95 79 --'-~'-;;;' :~----~~ =----- ~------~~ =~-~~=~ -~~~~== -; 2- _-_-__-_- __-_+--·-·-llc~--~-----+ .. - .. -.·-··c·-j ~--·--·-;-.. 1 Alabama------203 A rixona------1Ii rn ------11--·------· --·---·---