Show i SIZE or OF fAMILY IN U. U 1 5 S1 DECREASES Nevada Shows Smallest Group and Least Number t to Each Dwelling i WASHINGTON Oct 3 3 Decrease during the last decade In the average a number of persons In In a family and to a dwelling In the United States is Indicated by comparative statistics made public today by bythe the census bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau The 1920 census showed that tile the nations nation's population was grouped I Into 24 families residing In dwellings making an average average average aver aver- age of ot 4 43 3 persons to a a. family and 51 persons to a dwelling In 1910 the Ule average number of ot persons to a family was 4 45 5 to a a. dwelling 1 52 2 The The average in both bothI cases was still higher In 5 1850 5 persons persons persons per per- I sons to a family and 5 56 6 persons toa to tP toI a dwelling and dwelling and has declined steadily I since The census bureau applies the I term family to a group of ot persons whether related by blood or not living living living liv liv- ing together In one household One I person living alone Is counted as a aI family while the occupants of ot a hotel or Institution regardless of their I number are considered one family An entire apartment house hous although Ithe the home of ot many families constitutes only one dwelling In the census bureaus bureau's bu- bu bureaus bureau's bureaus bureau's bu bu- reau's classification As shown by the 1920 census the average size Qt of families was greatest In Southern states and and smallest In Western states The number of ot perI persons persons per per- sons to a dwelling was greatest on the north Atlantic seaboard and I smallest in Western states Among individual states the average to a aI family in m 1920 ranged from 3 35 5 in Nevada Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- vada to 5 in Jn North Carolina and to toa toa toa I a dwelling from 3 37 7 in Nevada to 7 78 73 S SIn In New York |