STATUS AXD TENDENCIES IN RURAL LIFE 441 



eighty-three counties of the State in 1920, thirty- 

 three, Allegan, Berrien, Branch, Cass, Charlevoix, 

 Cheboygan, Chippewa, Clinton, Eaton, Emmet, Gra- 

 tiot, Hillsdale, Houghton, Ionia, Iron, Isabella, La- 

 peer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Manistee, 

 Mason, Mecosta, Menominee, Midland, IMonroe, 

 Montcalm, Ottawa, Presque Isle, St. Joseph, Shia- 

 wassee, Tuscola and Van Buren, showed a larger 

 rural than urban population, as the census employs 

 the term. 



The most striking feature of the census returns, 

 but one for which observers of rural conditions were 

 prepared, was the drift from the rural to the urban 

 communities. Between 1910 and 1920 Alpena, Alle- 

 gan, Barry, Bay, Berrien, Branch, Cass, Cheboygan, 

 Clinton, Eaton, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, 

 Hillsdale, Houghton, Ionia, Isabella, Kent, Lapeer, 

 Lenawee, Livingston, Manistee, Mason, Mecosta, 

 ]\Ienominee, IMonroe, j\Iontcalm, Muskegon, Ottawa, 

 Saginaw, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Schoolcraft, Shia- 

 wassee, Tuscola, Van Buren, Washtenaw and Wex- 

 ford showed a definite loss of rural population. Of 

 the counties which had a positive increase of rural 

 population, Gogebic, in the extreme northwestern 

 portion of the State, led with its rural growth of 

 32.5 per cent, while Iron had 26.6 per cent of in- 

 crease. These northern counties are in the formerly 

 undeveloped l)ut now developing section of the State. 

 The effect of the adjacent automobile industry on the 

 rural sections of the counties containing them is not 

 manifested in Genesee County, whose rural popula- 



