Biggest 38

In 1920 there were only 30 U. S. cities with more than quarter-million population. Last week the announcement of 1930 census figures showed 8 more cities in that class. They are:

Nevv York City .... 6,958,792

Chicago 3,373,753

Philadelphia . 1,961,458

Detroit 1,564,397

Los Angeles 1,231,730

Cleveland 901,402

St. Louis 822,032

Baltimore 801,741

Boston 783,451

Pittsburgh 669,631

San Francisco 625,974

Buffalo 572,913

Milwaukee 568,962

Washington 485,716

Minneapolis 464,674

New Orleans 455,792

Cincinnati 449,331

Newark . 444,170

Kansas City, Mo 392,640

Indianapolis 364,073

Seattle 363,134

Atlanta 347,991

Rochester . 325,019

Jersey City . 316,914

Louisville 307,808

Portland, Ore 299,122

Toledo 290,787

Houston 289,428

Columbus, Ohio 289,056

Oakland 284,213

Denver 287,644

St. Paul 270,883

Dallas ... 260,397

Birmingham 257,657

Akron 256,353

San Antonio 254,562

Memphis 252,049

Providence 251,029

In this list Los Angeles jumped from tenth to fifth place; many a rival pair of cities switched places, as: Boston and Baltimore, Buffalo and San Francisco, Seattle and Indianapolis.

Cities having a population over 100,000 were shown last week to have increased from 68 in 1920 to 93 this year. The 93 contain more than one-fourth of the U. S. population. Notable among newcomers to this list were Fort Worth, Tex. (160,892), Flint, Mich. (156.422), Miami, Fla. (110.025), Tacoma, Wash. (106,837), Lynn (102,327), and Lowell (100,300), Mass, (textile centres).

Last week totals for New York State, biggest in population of the U. S., also were announced: 12,609.555 inhabitants (in 1920, 10,384,829).

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