DENSITY OF POPULATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 50, 13 October 1911, Page 2

DENSITY OF POPULATION.

The census figures have progressed a further stage, figures now being available showing the density of the population and the result of the house and room enumeration which was included in the schedule. The Dominion is steadily settling its waste places, though 'the town population grows faster than the country. The number of persons to a square mile is 9690, the highest. ever recorded. Taking the dwellings and the population, it is found that there are 4.66 people to every inhabitable dwelling, a strictly lower proportion than at the previous census, showing that building operations have been keeping better pace with the population increase. In 1881 the proportion was 5.12 per house, but,it lias steadily decreased since. The following table shows the density of population in the various provinces:— Persons per Square Milo.

Tha Dwellings. New Zealand’s population is housed in 282,1(57 dwelling's, including 1,05)1 with canvas roofs, 9,650 built or stone,, brick or concrete, 20,976 of wood, iron, or lath and plaster and 697 of cob or sod. The popular size of dwelling is that containing live or six rooms. There are 89,275 of them, while the whole total of larger houses is 46,814. Dwellings of three and four rooms total 54,770, and those of two rooms 9,954.

190G 1911 Auckland 8,204 10,274 Taranaki 13,119 15,589 Hawke’s Bay 9,578 11,008 Wellington ' 10,347 18,094 Marlborough 3,022 3,363 Nelson 4,141 4,719 Westland 3,161 3,386 Canterbury 11,332 12,335 Otago 8,934 9,250 Southland 4,752 5,250 Chatham Islands 525 661 Kermadec islands ... 384: 308 Totals 8,540 9,690