Washtenaw's Decade

The census bulletin for Michigan, ust issued, gives the population of the tate of Michigan by counties, townhips, cities and villages. The figures are the corrected ones, and we can now give our readers the official census figures of the most interest to them. The population of the state is 2,093,89, an increase since 1880 of 456,952, or 27.92 per cent. Washtenaw county ïas a population of 42,210, an increase of 362, or .87 per cent in ten years. Ann Arbor stands seventeenth in the order of cities of the state, and has a population of 9,431, an inerease of ,370, 17 per cent. The largest numerical increase in population in the ities outside of Detroit and Grand iapids has been Saginaw, 16,781, and duskegon, 11,440. The ten largest cites and their population are Detroit, 05,876; Grand Rapids, 60,278; Saginaw, 46,322; Bay City, 27,839; Muskegon, 22,702; Jackson, 20,798; Kalamaoo, 17,853; Port Iluron, 13,543; Battle Creek, 13,197; and Lansinc;, 13,102. Ypsilanti stands twenty-seventh in population, having 6,129 inhabitants, an increase of 1,145, or 22.97 per cent. The growth of the different wards of Ann Arbor may be shown by the folowing table of the population in 1890 and 1880: Ward. 1890. 1880. First 2,462 Second 1,676 Third 1,503 Fourtk 1,619 Fifth 719 Sixth 1,452 A similar table for Ypsilanti shows: Ward. 1890. 1880. First 1,373 Second 938 Third 1,697 Fourth 767 Fifth 1,354 Among the villages the greatest increase in population has been in Milan, which has nearly tripled in population. Chelsea shows a growth of 196, and Manchester of 35, while Dexter and Saline have fallen off. The figures are: 1890. 1880. Chelsea 1,356 1,160 Manchester 1,191 1,156 Milan 917 320 Dexter 879 1,008 Saline 706 852 Twenty-six of the inhabitants of Chelsea are in Lima township. Saline s in three townships: 562 in Saline township, 131 in Lodi, and 13 in York. Milan is in two counties. Of its 917 inhabitants, 570 are in Washtenaw county. Only two townships in the county show an increase in population, Augusta and York, the increase in these towns being caused by the villages. The largest decrease is in Scio, where it is 346. Saline is next, with a loss of 268. The total loss in the county, outside of the two cities, is 2,153. The loss outside of the 'two cities and flve villages is 2,706. The following table shows the population of the townships iu 1890 and 1880: 1890. 1880. AnnArbor 1,383 1,400 Augusta 1,769 1,640 Bridgewater 1,084 1,255 Dexter 702 873 Freedom 1,134 1.373 Lima 991 1,021 Lodi .... 1,264 1,377 Lyndon. 617 735 Manchester 2,178 2,394 Northfleld 1,210 1,273 Pittsfleld 1,158 1,233 Salem 1,182 1,192 Saline 1,659 1,927 Scio.. 1,946 2,291 Sharon 1,014 1,161 Superior... 1,096 1,253 Sylvan -. 2,258 2,260 Webster 863 969 York 1,906 1,717 Ypsilanti 1,236 1,459 The population of some of the vil lages near this county is as follows Stockbridge,497, GrassLake, 617. Clin ton, 960; Pinckney, 449: South Lyon 707; Belleville, 367; Plymouth, 1,172.