Table 11.-RANK OF STATES ACCORDING TO POPULATION: 1900 TO 1950

Table 12.-RANK OF STATES ACCORDING TO AMOUNT AND PERCENT INCREASE IN POPULATION BETWEEN

1940 AND 1950

[Minus sign (-) denotes decrease]

Table 13.-COMPOSITION OF THE URBAN POPULATION ACCORDING TO THE NEW DEFINITION, BY REGIONS, DIVISIONS, AND STATES: 1950

Table 14.-COMPARISON OF URBAN AND RURAL POPULATION UNDER NEW AND OLD URBAN DEFINITIONS, BY REGIONS, DIVISIONS, AND STATES: 1950

1 Some persons in areas classified as urban under special rules according to the old urban definition are classified as rural according to the new definition. (See table 3.) Gross difference in urban or rural population resulting from the change in definition, therefore, exceeds the difference shown.

Table 15.-URBAN AND RURAL POPULATION OF CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, BY REGIONS, DIVISIONS, AND STATES, AND OF ALASKA, HAWAII, AND PUERTO RICO: 1790 TO 1950

Table 15.-URBAN AND RURAL POPULATION OF CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, BY REGIONS, DIVISIONS, AND STATES, AND OF ALASKA, HAWAII, AND PUERTO RICO: 1790 TO 1950-Con.

53.6

57.4

63.8

67.9

81.6

93.6

48.3

59.0

59.5

59.7

61.0

64.7

66.5

71.9

77.4

79.0

83.4

86.5

92.2

96.8