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116,032. The average ratio of park acreage to population is one acre to 

 about every 45 inhabitants. The number of individual park properties per 

 community ranged from one to seven. 



Thirty-three of these communities reported a total of 298.91 acres in 

 school sites and a total number of 89 sites. 



The 35 communities had almost fifty per cent of the total park acreage 

 of the entire 237 communities, although they represent only about fourteen 

 per cent of the group. This indicates how meager the park provisions are 

 in the majority of the communities reporting parks. 



A suggested general layout of recreation spaces for communities in 

 this group would not be greatly different from the suggestion made for the 

 communities in Group I. The following changes and additions, however, 

 may be noted: the increase of the number of children's playgrounds to 

 correspond with the increase in the number of schools; slight increase in 

 the area of the general playfield-park area; addition of one or more "intown" 

 squares in the larger communities; possible enlargement of the suggested 

 forest park into a genuine town forest; and, the development of a small 

 municipal golf course. 



Group III. All Incorporated Places Having from 5,000 to 10,000 Inhabitants. 



The number of such places was 721 in 1920, having a total population 

 of 4,997,794, or 4.7 per cent of the total population. The percentage of the 

 total population in 1910 was 4.6 per cent. A study of the area included 

 within the incorporated limits of two hundred and eighty-two communities 

 in this group showed: 



Ten communities having less than I square mile in city limits; 45 com- 

 munities having from I to 2 square miles; 52 communities having from 2 

 to 3 square miles; 42 communities having from 3 to 4 square miles; 30 

 communities having from 4 to 5 square miles; 15 communities having from 

 5 to 6 square miles; 12 communities having from 6 to 7 square miles; 7 

 communities having from 7 to 8 square miles; 7 communities having from 

 8 to 9 square miles; 4 communities having from 9 to 10 square miles; 58 

 communities having 10 square miles and above. The majority of the com- 

 munities showing an area above seven or eight square miles are for the 

 most part located in New England where the "town" type of organization 

 is prevalent. 



The average density of population in even the most restricted of 

 these communities is obviously very low. One may expect to find, there- 

 fore, in the communities of this group, that the people live in individual 

 family homes for the most part, with yard space about them; and after 

 making allowance for space occupied by stores and shops and other places 



