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Show New Bulletin Gives Interesting Data Statistics for the 1930 population of Utah classified as urban and rural, and by sex, color, age, marital condition, con-dition, illiteracy, etc., have ben issued is-sued by the Bureau of Census in a bulletin : entitled "Composition and Characteristics of the Population." - The urban population of Utah in 1930 was 266,264, representing an increase in-crease of 50,680, or 23.5 per cent since 1930. The urban population formed 52.4 per cent of the total population, 507,847, as compared with 48.0 per cent in 1920. Urban population, popula-tion, as defined by the census bureau, is in general that residirg in cities and other incorporated places having 2,500 inhabitants or more, the remainder, re-mainder, being classified as rural. : The rural population of Utah : in 1930 was 241,583, comprising 106,667 persons living on farms, and 134,916 not living on farms, representing as a whole an increase of 7,771, or 3.3 per cent,, as compared with the rural population in 1920, 233,812. The rural-farm population, taken alone, decreased de-creased 25,205, or 19.1 per cent, between be-tween 1920 and 1930, while the rural-nonfarm rural-nonfarm population showed an increase in-crease of 32,976, or 32.3 per cent. Of the entire population of Utah, 97.7 per cent are white, 89.0 per cent being native white, and 8.6 per cent foreign-born white. Of the native white population, about seven-tenths are of native parentage, and about three-tenths are of foreign or mixiui parentage. Of the 43,772 persons comprising the foreign-born white population of Utah, 24.8 per cent were born in England. Of the foreign-born foreign-born white population, 68.9 per cent have been naturalized. The population of Utah as a whole increased 58,451, or 13.0 per cent, between be-tween 1920 and 1930. The number of children under 1 year of age decreased decreas-ed from 12,066 in 1920 to 11,630 in 1930, representing a loss of 6.3 per cent, while the entire group of children child-ren under 5 years of age decreased 2,114, or 3.4 per cent, during the same period. The proportion of the population 7 to 13 years of age attending school increased from 95.5 per cent in 1920 to 97.9 per cent in 1930, and of those 14 and 15 years of age, the proportion propor-tion increased from 93.7 per cent in 1920 to 97.1 per cent in 1930. The percentage of illiteracy in the population popula-tion 10 years of age and over decreased de-creased from 1.9 to 1.2. Of the 170,013 gainful workers in the state, 140,953 were males, representing repre-senting 54.2 per cent of the male population, and 29,060 were females, representing 11.7 per cent of the female fe-male population. Including both farm owners and farm laborers, agriculture employed 41,283 persons, or about' one-fourth of all the gainful workers j in the state. The various manufactur-i manufactur-i ing and mechanical industries employed em-ployed 32,456 persons, the largest numbers being in the building industry, indus-try, iron and steel and other metal industries, and food and allied in-, dustries. There were 19.12S persons engngtitLUn transportation; 27,067 in trade',; including' banking and insurance; insur-ance; 3,847 in public service; 14,056 in professional service, and 13,040 in domestic and personal service. |