POPULATION OF U.S.A.

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1936, Page 3

POPULATION OF U.S.A.

OFFICIAL ESTIMATE. < I There were 127,52 i.'bOU persons in | the i'nited States on July 1, 1935, the Bureau of Census estimates,, says tne "Christian Science Monitor.” This total represents a growth oi !i per cent over (lie final population figure of the 1930 census which was fixed at 122.75:>.04<'The bureau's estimates, held by William L. Austin, director, to be "subic ct to relatively large errors,” show-j <(' a decline in population in eleven ol the forty-eight States. Regional shifts were held responsible. The moyeuum towards the west, long an imDortant influence in American his-

tory. was found to have slowed down considerably in the five years of the depression. Seekers for a warmer climate apcnily have headed for Florida ■•tiiov ihan California. While _ the west Coast State registered a 0.7 decline' in its population, Florida eu-1 joyed ■' f'-'l Per cent, increase. Other States in which decreases v'ci'c. recorded weie Rhode Island. Michigan, Wisconsin. South Dakota. INcbiaska, Kansas, Mississippi. New [.Mexico. Montana, and Arizona. An important stoiy of the enormous Lrowth of centralised government tin-J ider the New Deal is told in the Dis-. I tricl of Columbia population figure, i The capital’s population increased 22 I per cent. in the five-year period, from ■ISG.BGU m 1030 to .>04,000 Hi DoJ. The great influx of Government employees since 1033 is held responsible. Thirteen states now have less popu-

lation titan docs the little square ol territory on the banks of the Potomac, | set aside by George Washington as] the site for'the Government of the j United States. New York still remains the most highly populated, of the forty-eight witii '12,889,000 inhabitants. an in-c’-»ase of 2.-1 per cent over 1930. PennI.sylvania is second with 1U.066.000: Illinois third with 7.817.000; Ohio fourth witii (>,707.000. and Texas tilth with 0.077.000. . , „ . i Fastest growing* Stales in die me-| year period were South Carolina, w>lh a 15 7 per emit, increase: Georgia, L> per com; Tetniess-e, 11.0; and Florida, 9.9 per cent. The Census Bureau's estimates aie based on school records, principally enrolment ami school census statistics. Director Austin r 'fuses to vouch for their accuracy, declaring that only jbv national population census, which twill not be taken' again until 1940. is • lit possible to secure exact data on J Hie widespread shifts of population caused bv several years of depression.