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Indiana University Studies 



11. NUMBER OF DWELLINGS AND FAMILIES IN GARY, IN 

 INDIANA, AND IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1910 ACCORDING 

 TO FAMILIES AND PERSONS 27 





Dwellings 



Families 



Families 



per 

 Dwelling 



Persons 



per 

 Dwelling 



Persons 



per 

 Family 



Gary 



2,233 



2,920 



1.3 



7.5 



5.8 



Indiana 



631,554 



654,891 



1.0 



4.3 



4.1 



United States . . . 



17,805,845 



20,255,555 



1.1 



5.2 



4.5 



a dwelling is somewhat higher in Gary than in Indiana or in 

 the United States. Were the definition of family based on blood 

 kinship the proportion of families to a dwelling in Gary would 

 undoubtedly be much higher because of the great number of 

 immigrants who, unrelated by blood, form the kind of household 

 described in the census as "sharing one table". Gary shows a 

 considerably higher proportion of persons to a dwelling than does 

 Indiana or the United States, because of the greater proportion 

 of immigrants who often live crowded together in tenement 

 houses and shacks. The number of persons to a family is also 

 somewhat greater in Gary than in Indiana or in the United 

 States. This does not mean, however, that in Gary the family 

 group determined by ties of blood averages 5.8 persons as given 

 in the table, because as referred to above the census defines a 

 family as "a single household or group of persons usually sharing 

 the same table", and this wDuld leave out of account children 

 who do not live at home, which in the Gary population would 

 probably not affect the results much; and also unrelated boarders 

 in immigrant households, as well as those unrelated groups of 

 immigrant men living together, keeping house on a sort of com- 

 munity plan, sharing the same table, which facts would very 

 much affect results in the Gary population. 



These statistics show that the population of Gary differs from 

 that of Indiana and of the United States in rate of growth, color 

 and nativity composition, sex and age composition, school attend- 

 ance of those over 14 and 16 years of age, citizenship of its foreign 

 born, illiteracy, and number of persons to a dwelling. Quite as 

 significant, however, in differentiating the population of Gary 

 as a population with properties peculiar to itself are certain 



"U.S. Census, 1910, Vol. I, p. 1285; Vol. II, pp. 549, 569. 



