ARIZONA
POPULATION—ARIZONA
NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF INHABITANTS
Population of the State.—Arizona was organized as a Territory in 1S63 and was admitted to the Union as the forty-eighth Slate in February, 1912. Its population on April 1, 1930, according to the Fifteenth Census, was 435,573, which represents an increase of 101,411, or 30.3 per cent, as compared with its population on January 1, 1920. The total land area of the State, as shown in Fable 3, is 113,S10 square miles. The average number of inhabitants per square mile in 1930 was 3.S, as compared with 2.9 in 1920.
Table 1 shows the population of Arizona from 1870, the year in which its area was first separately enumerated, to 1930, together with the increase during each decade.
Table 1.—Population of Arizona: 1S70 to 1930
INCREASE OVER PRECEDING CENSUS
•135, 573 o.u, i<;l> 2<H, 351 122, 931 $$, 213 40, 440 9,05$
101,411
129,808 SI. 423 34,6$$ 47, $03 30,7S2
CG.2 39.3 1 IS. 2 31$. 7
1930..	.
1920..	.
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Counties and minor civil divisions.—In the tables which follow (Tables 2 to G) the population of Arizona is shown by counties, election precincts, justice precincts, school districts, cities, and towns, with some comparative figures from previous censuses.
Cities of 10,000 or more.—There arc two cities in the State which had a population of 10,000 or more in 1930. Table 2 shows for these cities the population at each census for which figures arc available, together with the increase or decrease during each decade. Phoenix, the capital and largest city, had a population of 4S,11S, which represents an increase of 19,065, or G5.6 per cent, over its population in 1920. Tucson, the second city in the State, had 32,506 inhabitants, and its increase during the past decade was 12,214, or 60,2 per cent.
19110—SO	3