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NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1926

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POPULATION, WEALTH AND DEBT

The population of Nebraska in 1920 was 1,296,372, being an increase of 8.7 per cent over the census of 1910. The city population, including the inhabitants of thirty-one cities and villages of 2,500 population or more constitutes 31.3 per cent of the whole. Twenty-one and three-tenths per cent of the people live in villages of less than 2,400 inhabitants, and the remaining 47.5 per cent live in the country.

Of the total population 11.5 per cent are foreign born white. Sixty-one and six-tenths per cent of the total foreign born white population are naturalized. Thirty-eight and four-tenths per cent are not citizens, though of this number 26.5 per cent have first papers. The estimate of population in 1925 is 1,355,371.

The rapid increase in wealth between 1910 and 1920 rests largely on the increase in the valuation of farm lands. The farm acreage of Nebraska in 1920 was approximately 42,225,475 acres, or 85.9 per cent of the total area of the state. In 1920, 56.0 per cent of all lands in farms was operated by owners, and 42.9 per cent in farms operated by tenants, and 1.1 per cent operated by managers.

The bonded local debt of the counties, cities and villages; school districts, and drainage districts has been incurred chiefly by municipalities and school districts. On June 30, 1926, the state auditor reported a total of $112,426,635 of bonded debt of the political subdivisions of the state as follows: County, $6,917,777; precinct and township, $611,500; irrigation and drainage district, $4,486,607; city and village, $65,244,663; school districts, $35,204,088; total, $112,426,635. The state has no bonded debt.

*Statistics for these topics are taken from the United States census reports, the latest figures being those of 1920.

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POPULATION STATISTICS FOR NEBRASKA, 1920

County	Total Population, 1920	Total Foreign Born White Population, 1920	Foreign Born White Population Distributed According to Citizenship, 1920
County	Total Population, 1920	Total Foreign Born White Population, 1920	Naturalized	First Papers	Alien	Unknown	Total Not Citizens
Adams	22,621	2,622	1,354	276	547	445	1,268
Antelope	15,243	1,172	800	97	113	162	372
Arthur	1,412	73	48	1	11	4	25
Banner	1,435	73	61	4	2	6	12
Blaine	1,778	92	45	3	116	138	47
Boone	14,146	1,335	942	89	0	94,	893
Box Butte	8,407	708	466	30	114	98	242
Boyd	8,243	984	730	65	103,	86	254
Brown	6,749	325	251	9	33	32	74
Buffalo	23,787	1,920	1,352	185	213	220	668
Burt	12,569	1,618	1,101	103	192	122	417
Butler	14,606	1,925	1,356	220	268	81	569
Cass	18,029	1,695	1,089	176	182	248	606
Cedar	16,225	1,747	1,217	127	192	211	530
Chase	4,939	167	112	15	12	28	55
Cherry	11,753	614	487	19	23	85	127
Cheyenne	8,405	782	546	40	106	90	23
Clay	14,486	1,858	1,314	133	226	185	644
Colfax	11,624	2,184	1,434	295	319	136	750
Cuming	13,769	2,187	1,582	196	215	194	605
Custer	26,407	1,488	1,089	94	94	211	399
Dakota	7,694	774	413	86	127	88	801
Dawes	10,160	687	403	21	58	110	184
Dawson	16,004	1,407	940	66	168	233	467
Deuel	3,282	241	173	...	45	23	68
Dixon	11,815	1,318	910	129	167	112	408
Dodge	23,197	3,106	2,047	200	398	461	1,069
Douglas	204,524	37,734	19,422	5,468	9,829	3,015	18,312
Dundy	4,869	176	127	117	8	24	49
Fillmore	13,671	1,365	1,026	02	169	68	329
Franklin	10,067	976	720	89	102	66	266
Frontier	8,540	516	382	32	65	47	134
Furnas	11,667	558	408	29	36	85	150
Gage	29,721	2,482	1,783	254	381	64	699
Garden	4,572	275	157	29	70	19	119
Garfield	3,496	278	174	31	33	40	104
Gosper	4669	333	276	19	12	26	57
Grant	1,486	68	44	4	19	7	24
Greeley	8,685	810	611	63	60	76	199
Hall	23,720	2,386	1,741	197	323	224	744
Hamilton	13,237	1,880	1,143	85	116,	36	237
Harlan	9,220	599	460	37	58	44	139
Hayes	3,327	124	88	4	13	19	36
Hitchcock	6,045	543	289	30	127	97	254
Holt	17,151	1,356	934	66	64	292	422
Hooker	1,378	44	36	...	...	8	8
Howard	10,739	1,837	1,468	154	149	66	369
Jefferson	16,140	1,386	942	192	211	41	444

Johnson	8,940	746	517	48	51	130	229
Kearney	8,583	1,346	1,048	131	94	73	298
Keith	5,294	437	296	42	66	33	141
Keys Paha	3,594	168	122	8	8	30	46
Kimball	4,498	445	226	32	149	38	219,
Knox	18,894	2,472	1,829	130	187	326	643
Lancaster	85,902	10,390	4,876	1,488	2,935	1,091	5,614
Lincoln	23,420	2,201	937	75	925	264	1,264
Logan	1,596	56	47	...	1	8	9
Loup	1,946	73	58	4	3	8	16
McPherson	1,692	51	41	5	4	1	10
Madison	22,611	2,722	1,586	176	262	698	1,136
Merrick	10,763	939	661	37	123	118	278
Morrill	9,151	1,000	226	71	565	188	774
Nance	8,712	800	457	81	96	166	348
Nemaha	12,547	554	387	44	42	81	167
Nuckolls	13,236	1,197	790	117	193	97	407
Otoe	19,494	1,797	1,177	225	195	200	620
Pawnee	9,578	660	450	28	85	97	210
Perkins	3,967	208	154	10	13	31	54
Phelps	9,900	1,724	1,885	62	155	122	339

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POPULATION STATISTICS FOR NEBRASKA, 1920--Concluded

County	Total Population, 1920	Total Foreign Born White Population, 1920	Foreign Born White Population Distributed According to Citizenship, 1920
County	Total Population, 1920	Total Foreign Born White Population, 1920	Naturalized	First Papers	Alien	Unknown	Total Not Citizens
Pierce	10,681	1,275	754	126	211	184	521
Platte	19,464	2,930	1,976	290	365	299	964
Polk	10,714	1,592	1,238	162	170	22	354
Red Willow	11,434	907	515	71	190	131	S92
Richardson	18,968	932	631	62	78	161	301
Rock	3,703	160	116	2	6	36	44
Saline	16,514	2,487	1,687	323	396	81	800
Sarpy	9,370	1,362	797	157	270	138	666
Saunders	20,589	3,416	2,626	280	446	64	790
Scotts Bluff	20,710	3,245	583	285	1,987	390	2,662
Seward	15,867	1,681	1,351	133	141	56	330
Sheridan	9,625	698	494	60	41	113	204
Sherman	8,877	1,034	700	101	93	140	334
Sioux	4,528	390	239	24	89	38	151
Stanton	7,756	1,174	698	145	181	155	481
Thayer	13,976	1,174	860	108	169	87	314
Thomas	1,773	77	46	7	10	14	81
Thurston	9,589	632	380	107	94	61	252
Valley	9,823	1,049	778	78	95	98	271
Washington	12,180	1,610	1,204	135	147	124	406
Wayne	9,725	1,315	919	106	167	133	396
Webster	10,922	836	561	57	80	138	275
Wheeler	2,531	157	133	4	6	15	24
York	17,146	1,315	1,064	4	118	39	251
State total	1,296,372	149,652	92,169	15,261	27,559	14,663	57,483