Decrease during the last decade in the average number of persons in a family and to a dwelling in the United States is indicated in comparative statistics made public today by the Census Bureau. The 1920 census showed that the nation’s population was grouped into 24,351,676 families residing in 20,697,4204 dwellings making an average of 4.3 persons in a family and 5.1 persons to a dwelling.
In 1910 the average number of persons to a family was 4.5 and to a dwelling 5.2. the average in both cases was still higher in 1880—five persons to a family and 5.6 persons to a dwelling—and has declined steadily since.
The Census Bureau applies the term “family” to a group of persons, whether related by blood or not, living together in one household. One person living alone is counted as a family while the occupants of a hotel or institution, regardless of the number, are considered one family. An entire apartment house, although the home of many families, constitutes only one dwelling in the Census Bureau’s classification.
As shown by the 1920 census, the average size of families was greatest in the Southern States and smallest in Western States, the bureau announced. The number of persons to a dwelling was greatest in New England and Middle Atlantic States and smallest in Western States. Among individual States the average to a family in 1920 ranged from 3.5 in Nevada to 5 in North Carolina, and to a dwelling from 3.7 in Nevada to 7.8 in New York.
From the front page of The Charlotte News, October 3, 1921
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