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

York.
Texas

,

Arizona

,

,

. Illinois

Nevada

,

of

,

Carolina

Jersey

,

,

Carolina

,

, 183 169,

,

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

[For description of new and old urban definitions, see text. Insofar as possible, population is that of present area of State; see table 6. Minus sign (-) denotes decrease. Percent not shown where less than 0.1 or where base is less than 100]

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.

Percent of total population

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