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14-31. SC Urban and Rural Population: 1790-1990


                                      URBAN                    RURAL
                  Total
                Number of      Number of    Percent     Number of   Percent
      Year     Inhabitants    Inhabitants   of Total   Inhabitants  of Total

      1790        249,073        16,359       6.6        232,714      93.4
      1800        345,591        18,824       5.4        326,767      94.6
      1810        415,115        24,711       6.0        390,404      94.0
      1820        502,741        24,780       4.9        477,961      95.1
      1830        581,185        33,599       5.8        547,586      94.2
      1840        594,398        33,601       5.7        560,797      94.3
      1850        668,507        49,045       7.3        619,462      92.7
      1860        703,708        48,574       6.9        655,134      93.1
      1870        705,606        61,011       8.6        644,595      91.4
      1880        995,577        74,539       7.5        921,038      92.5
      1890      1,151,149       116,183      10.1      1,034,966      89.9
      1900      1,340,316       171,256      12.8      1,169,060      87.2
      1910      1,515,400       224,832      14.8      1,290,568      85.2
      1920      1,683,724       293,987      17.5      1,389,737      82.5
      1930      1,738,765       371,080      21.3      1,367,685      78.7
      1940      1,899,804       466,111      24.5      1,433,693      75.5
      1950      2,117,027       777,921      36.7      1,339,106      63.3
      1960      2,382,594       981,386      41.2      1,401,208      58.8
      1970      2,590,713     1,250,725      48.3      1,339,791      51.7
      1980      3,121,820     1,689,253      54.1      1,432,567      45.9
      1990      3,486,703     1,905,378      54.6      1,581,325      45.4

Note: By Census definition, the urban population is composed of persons living in densely populated areas and in places of 2,500 or more outside urbanized areas. All persons living outside urbanized areas of less than 2,500 or in the open countryside are classified as rural. Data for the years between 1950 and 1990 are based on the current urban definition.

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Number of Inhabitants, PC80-1-A42, Table 1, 1980 and CPH-L-79, 1990.

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