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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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