TABLE IX.-Rural and urban population, with per cent of total population. Of the 2,530,016 people in Michigan, June 1, 1904, 1,298,654 or 51.3 per cent, are males, and 1,231,362 or 48.7 per cent, are females. The percentages for 1904, compared with similar percentages for other census years beginning with 1874, are as follows: TABLE X.-Percentage of male and female of total population, 1874 to 1904. Table X shows the males to be in excess of the females, but in a constantly diminishing proportion, the females having increased during the various decades at a slightly greater rate than the males, owing, no doubt, to the change in character of immigration. It will be noted, by comparisons of the respective tables, that this relative increase of females is made up of foreign-born females. This seems to be the natural outcome of commercially prosperous times, the foreign-born males becoming able to send for their families from across the seas. 1904. 1894. 1884.. 1874.. TABLE XI.-Excess of males with per cent of total population, 1874 to 1904. Table XI considers the excess of males with reference to the proportion which they bear to the whole number of persons. At the present census the females constitute 48.7 per cent of the total population, or substantially, the same proportion as shown for the equivalent areas in the United States census of 1900. The excess of females in the State is confined to six counties, viz: Calhoun, 219; Jackson, 12; Lenawee, 485; St. Joseph, 205; Washtenaw, 212; Wayne, 3,427. In 1900 there was an excess of females in seven counties, Calhoun, 447; Kalamazoo, 408; Kent, 258; Lenawee, 412; St. Joseph, 169; Washtenaw, 259, and Wayne, 4,923. "In 1854 the female population of Emmet county exceeded the male population by 76, and in 1874 the females outnumbered the males in Wayne county by 291, and in 1880, by 610. In 1864 there were more females than males in the counties of Calhoun, Wayne, Oakland, St. Joseph and Washtenaw." It is stated, in the census report of 1894, that the instances noted are the only ones, at the census of 1854 or since, previous to 1890, where the female population of a county has outnumbered the male population. Table XII shows the per cent of each sex to the total population of both sexes in the years 1904-1900-1894-1890. TABLE XII.-CONCLUDED.-Percentage of males and females of total population. Comparative tables. (a) Manitou county, since disorganized, reported 53.92 per cent males, and 46.08 per cent females in the census of 1894; in the U. S. census of 1890, 55.70 per cent males and 44.30 per cent females. (b) Isle Royal county, disorganized in 1897, reported 93.33 per cent males, and 6.67 per cent females in the U. S. census of 1890. In the 87 cities of the State, with an aggregate population of 1,036,249, we find 511,229, or 49.3 per cent, males and 525,020, or 50.7 per cent, females as compared with 49.6 per cent males and 50.4 per cent females in the 70 cities in 1894. GENERAL NATIVITY. The whole number of persons of native birth in 1904, as shown by Table IV of the general tables, is 1,983,155, or 78.4 per cent, of the total population as compared with a total, in 1900, of 1,879,329, or 77.6 per cent. The foreign born now number 546,861, or 21.6 per cent, as against a total for the same area, in 1900, of 541,653, or 22.4 per cent. TABLE XIII.-Population classified, as to general nativity, and per cent of total population, 1880-1904. (a) The nativity of the persons reported as 'unknown" has been estimated at the same per cent and included in these figures. In Table XIII the population has been classified according to the number of native and of foreign birth, and statistics relating to these two elements for each census from 1880 to 1904, inclusive. TABLE XIV.-Native and foreign born population arranged geographically, 1904-1894 |