Table 1
Population of Vermont and Percent of
Increase Each Census, 1790-1960
This table appears in a section of Chapter 1 explaining population trends
from 1791 - 1960. The figures in this table show Vermont's relatively stable
population after 1850. A great many of Vermont towns reached their population
peaks from 1790 to 1810. As the soil depleted and as the West opened up
with cheap land and rich soil, the number of emigrants increased so that
by 1840, people feared loss of their young from the towns. The Civil War
enlisted Vermont men in large numbers, depleting further the state's population.
Total Population
|
Census Year
|
Number
|
Percent Increase
|
|
1790
|
85,425
|
|
|
1800
|
154,465
|
80.8
|
|
1810
|
217,895
|
41.1
|
|
1820
|
235,981
|
8.3
|
|
1830
|
280,652
|
18.9
|
|
1840
|
291,948
|
4.0
|
|
1850
|
314,120
|
7.6
|
|
1860
|
315,098
|
0.3
|
|
1870
|
330,551
|
4.9
|
|
1880
|
332,286
|
0.5
|
|
1890
|
332,422
|
*
|
|
1900
|
343,641
|
3.4
|
|
1910
|
355,956
|
3.6
|
|
1920
|
352,428
|
-1.0
|
|
1930
|
359,611
|
2.0
|
|
1940
|
359,231
|
-0.1
|
|
1950
|
377,747
|
5.2
|
|
1960
|
389,896
|
3.2
|
*Less than 1/10 of one percent
Figures taken from 1950 Census of Population, Vol. II: Characteristics
of the Populations, Part 45, Vermont; Washington, 1952; pp.49-50, and
United States Census of Population, 1960. General Population
Characteristics: Vermont. Washington, 1960; pp. 19-20.
State and county level population data for the decades succeeding the
publication of the Nuquist book can be found in the table: Population
and Percent Change, 1970-1990. For a town level population data please
see our Socioeconomic Indicators
for Vermont Communities.
Table II
Nuquist Index
Comments to: crs@uvm.edu Reviewed
on 6/23/97