Facts Concerning the PEOPiiE of Indiana 



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Distribution of Population in Urban and Rural Conimiiiiil ics 



URBAN 



RURAL 



^0°^ 40^o 50'^ 20^" 10^° O 10% 30% 40^° 50"^^ 60^- 10^^ QO' 



I890 

 \900 

 1910 



1890 

 1900 

 1910 



GAIN URBAN LOSS RURAL 



40°^° 30% 20°/° 10"'^ O 10' 



|Mnl,M,lM,,'MMl,,M I, I I 



1900-1910 



1900- I9IO 



The increase in urban population and the decrease in rural 

 population was not primarily due to places of less than 2,500 in- 

 habitants enlarging their corporate limits, thus bringing them into 

 the 2,500 class and apparently reducing the rural population. If 

 this were true there would have been in 1910 more communities 

 of the 2,500 to 5,000 class than in 1900, but it will be noted in 

 Table 4 that in 1900 there were 38 communities of this class and 

 in 1910 only 37. Aside from the decrease in the number of places 

 in this class, a decrease in the actual number of inhabitants is 

 also shown. This decrease amounted to 379 persons. The chief 

 increase has occurred in the cities of the 10,000 to 25,000 class, 

 the actual number of such cities having increased from 10 in 1890 

 to 14 in 1900 and to 20 in 1910. Aside from the rural population 

 which represents 57.6 per cent of the total population in 1910, 

 cities of this class have for the last twenty years contained a greater 

 percentage of the population than those of any other class. In 

 1890 this percentage was 6.6 per cent; in 1900, 8.7 per cent, and 

 1910, 12.6 per cent. The actual number of residents in com- 

 munities of the various class sizes for the last twenty years will 

 be found in Table 4. 



