| Show UTAH fl ff GROWS THE 1 PAST FEW z 11 1 r E B Z 1 I 1 S carbon and emery county statistics in detail As shown by the thirteenth census 1 more than half the people in the country correspondence 11 the advocate washington 1 D C oct 28 following the preliminary mintry announce inn ounce ments which hive irtle ben nen made by the census bureau from front time to time if tie tl e aggred ite population or of ill places in th tilt state of utah as enumerate it the thirteenth cen BUS sus taken at of april 15 1910 census director durand has belied 6 a statement giving interesting addi lional advance degalla de det talla nils oc which aich the more important relate to the stale state 1 urban urba n and rural population the tile information as viken from front the first state population bulletin for utah just issued prepared un an der the supervision of L C hunt flunt chief statistician for tion this bulletin blits the letlon figures by counties ind minor civil divisions with comparative emente of population where here pos ible and a statement by counties 0 of tin tilt population living in urban and rural torri territory tory the T I 1 ie census bureau for purposes of 1 has urban P population op ai that re elding in ciulei a and ud other incorporated places of 2500 inhabitants or inori mort and anti auril pop udall ri as 9 thit th it reiding re iding outside of incorporated place the pop such bol ul of utah mall ie h com om 7 4 9 aired attl alth a it POI population ol 01 in ili 1900 thie this n ts an increase during the lait decade of 96 02 02 or 34 9 per cent during the same period the total POPl population lat loll 1011 of con 21 1 in ln creased creat united states gilr ent the tile rate of increase for the tile state for the decade though lightly slightly higher than that for the decade is considerably ing preceding other decide decile it lower than that for any prior to 1880 1890 utah wa was organ lied ae as a territory in the fild federal in 1860 and appears for the first time timo in it e geneun report i during mirin the twenty years that lear itt in from 1850 to 18 1870 1 population 1 1 creti sed very rapidly idly of tn in the rate rates nearly eight tinn the cent for creace biting ao 10 39 per for 6 per cent and iret first docabo since glues IS 1870 0 abo tb population cecone end tal the homing a sub ab of utah while growth haa not increased the two during rapidly aa as nearly eo so the 1870 to dades from croul 31 3 ranging rata of increase decade ISOO 1850 1900 cent for the per decade to 65 9 iw pr cent for the of 0 the tho population ag the nearly in lulu 1911 atai state ae as in 1960 IS 50 abr turee aimee a at large while hile the of continental L tilted states in 1910 waa as only about four times that thit in 1850 L CITIES laih has fiat tareo cities salt gal t lake it the largest citi ell haa has a p of 9 1 and anti D len the alty i population of 25 provo aty and log logon login in with ith and ind inhabitants respect chely are the only other cities in tal I 1 the state having over tho lie thousand anil I Inhabit inhabitants ints there are also I 1 cities having from front 2500 to inhabitants habit ints and thirty eight having leas les thin 2500 1500 inhabitant inhabitants the aggregate population of the fifty three othree cirlee Is or 58 per cent of the total population of the state 8 salt alt lake city show tho the highest percentage of increase during the laet last decade namely 73 1 3 per cent and loban the 10 lo et st 38 per cent utah haa has twenty tent seven counties r e population of these the counties ranges front 1595 1695 in grand county to in salt lake county the only change in the territorial boun darlee darles of the counties since 1300 hae has been the annexation of koosh areni arem precinct formerly in blute county to sevier count in 1902 twenty i counties have in in population during the laatt t decade the rates of increase ranging from 9 4 per por cent in san pete te county to 1 per cent in san iian jan count and the tile absolute in create creams from two hundred undred li and six islic garfield count to in ty y in salt lake count in eight counties countie the raten of exceeds that 1 bown for the tate state as a a whole hole which bich an before catl ta tl waa vaa 34 9 counties hare have de tie five per ce cen n in ill population during the hut laft decade the rate rates of 1 rang ing from 3 3 2 per pont in rich coan coun j ty tt to lo 10 1 1 per cent in summit oun ty and the decreases frey sixty three in mth mt h county to 1239 1235 in summit county the aggregate ag great from 1900 t of population Irle increase resse 1910 in the twenty two e that how show an 1 is 1 98 ft 4 1 the aggregate decrease of population in the five counties coa atee that show a d ie crowe ie to 1839 the dif difference fence 9 the total inc an fn r e a I 1 02 11 te of Col course irs population la in the tate state 0 of f population th abe urban terri territory tor of the state inhabit in 1910 contained tante tants or 4 46 6 3 per cent of the total COUt contani ItIl I 1 on page eight UTAH GROWS THE qt E PAST r A S T FEW YEAR K S continued from page seven population while inhabitants or 53 7 per cent lived in rural territory the urban territory as it existed in 1900 that Is 1 the cities and incorporated towns then having 2600 2500 inhabitants or more contained inhabitants or 38 1 per cent of the total population while 1 inhabitants or 61 8 9 per cent lived in rural territory there has thus been a considerable sid erable increase in the proportion of urban population salt lake city in 1910 1900 and 1840 comprised 24 8 19 3 and 21 3 per cent respectively ot of the total population of the state the proportion of tho the total population of the state living in urban territory outside of salt lake city increased from 14 4 per cent in 1890 to 18 8 per cent in IDOO 1900 and 21 G 5 per cent in 1910 the urban 1 irrl tory of the state comprise comprises fifteen cities and one town the combined population of which la Is the rural territory comprises eighty seven cities and towns of less than 2500 2600 inhabitants each with a combined population of and the entire area outside ot of incorporated placebo au with a population of thus about 40 2 per cent of the total population here classo 1 as rural lives in small pities and towns of the eighty w boven ven cities und and of lees less than 2500 2600 inhabitant inhabitants each thirty two have from 1000 to 2600 2500 inhabitants each with a combined population of thirty elx six aroa fro a to 1000 inhabitants each with a combined population of and nineteen less than inhabitants each with a combined population of in all incorporated places including those of less than 2500 inhabitants there nas in 1910 a population of or 67 9 pe per cent ot of ahe the population of the state the population at of all incorporated places as they existed in was or 59 7 per cent of the population of the state seven counties had a larger proportion po artion and two counties i smaller plo proportion portion of urban population in 1910 than la in 1900 while eighteen counties were wholly rural at both censuses RATE OF URBAN GROWTH comparison oc of tho the lulal population in 1910 ot of cities and towns having a population ot of nut leea less than 2500 each with the total population ot of the same places in 1900 1960 shown an bacr aper of 59 9 per cent this represents the rate of growth of urban communities aa as herein defined during the same period the rural population comprising that of tho the remainder of the state increased 18 13 9 per cent the population of urban thus increased a little more than one and fire five seventh sevenths times as rapidly as that of the state as a whole and a little more than three tirres as rapidly us its that of rural territory there ara are seven counties in which rural population decreased but only oa county in which there was a decrease de rease of urban population the group of cities having haying over inhabitants increased in population ir X little less than twice as rapidly and the group at cities and towns having from 2600 2500 to inhabitants a little more than one and one fifth times as rapidly as the state na as a whole while the rate of increase in rural errit territory ory was but little more than half the rate for tho the state as a whole of 0 the in creace in the total population of the state during the decade namely slightly more thin one halt half waa was in the cities ottes of over inhabitants the total land area of the state la 1 square miles the average number of persons to tho the square mile la Is 4 5 in 1900 and 1890 it was 3 4 and 2 6 respectively san juan county with ith miles haa has tho the largest area an and davia davis r mity with two wo hundred ant un 1 seventy five square miles his the smallest area salt I 1 ake inke county containing stilt salt lake city has the highest density of any county li imely 8 persons per square mile while san juan county has the lowest loest density 0 3 |
