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Genevieve Atwood. Urban Environmental Geography, GEOG 3330, University of Utah, Department of Geography. Class notes are works in progress. Please use with professional courtesy... alert me to inaccuracies, and attribute this page and the sources it cites.
Intro03. US Urbanization Trends
Urbanization trends: for the United States
Source of data: US Census. http://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/table-4.pdf
| USCensus | Population and Housing Counts | Population 1790 to 1990 | |||||
| http://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/table-4.pdf | |||||||
| Year | TotalPop | UrbanPop | RuralPop | UrbanPct | RuralPct | ||
| 1790 | 3929214 | 201655 | 3727559 | 5.1 | 94.9 | ||
| 1800 | 5308483 | 322371 | 4986112 | 6.1 | 93.9 | ||
| 1810 | 7239881 | 525459 | 6714422 | 7.3 | 92.7 | ||
| 1820 | 9638453 | 693255 | 8945198 | 7.2 | 92.8 | ||
| 1830 | 12860702 | 1127247 | 11733455 | 8.8 | 91.2 | ||
| 1840 | 17063353 | 1845055 | 15218298 | 10.8 | 89.2 | ||
| 1850 | 23191876 | 3574496 | 19617380 | 15.4 | 84.6 | ||
| 1860 | 31443321 | 6216518 | 25226803 | 19.8 | 80.2 | ||
| 1870 | 38558371 | 9902361 | 28656010 | 25.7 | 74.3 | ||
| 1880 | 50189209 | 14129735 | 36059474 | 28.2 | 71.8 | ||
| 1890 | 62979766 | 22106265 | 40873501 | 35.1 | 64.9 | ||
| 1900 | 76212168 | 30214832 | 45997336 | 39.6 | 60.4 | ||
| 1910 | 92228496 | 42064001 | 50164495 | 45.8 | 54.4 | ||
| 1920 | 106021537 | 54253282 | 51768255 | 51.2 | 48.8 | ||
| 1930 | 123202624 | 69160599 | 54042025 | 56.1 | 43.9 | ||
| 1940 | 132164569 | 74705338 | 57459231 | 56.5 | 43.5 | ||
| 1950 | 151325798 | 96846817 | 61197604 | 59.8 | 40.4 | ||
| 1960 | 179323175 | 125268750 | 54045425 | 69.9 | 30.1 | ||
| 1970 | 203302031 | 149646617 | 53565309 | 73.5 | 26.3 | ||
| 1980 | 226542199 | 167050992 | 59494813 | 73.7 | 26.3 | ||
| 1990 | 248709873 | 187053487 | 61656386 | 75.2 | 24.8 | ||
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