CITY BUDGET. AGGREGATE YEARLY APPROPRIATIONS FROM 1899 TO 1912. [Prepared by direction of the Comptroller.] The following table furnished by the Finance Department of the City of New York gives the aggregate yearly appropriations for the city and the county government from 1899 to 1912 inclusive. The following is a statement of the Tax Rate in each of the Boroughs of the City of New York in each year since 1899. POPULATION OF NEW YORK STATE AND CITY. [Details summarized from Bulletin of the Federal Census of 1910.] The following table shows the population of the State of New York at each Federal census from 1790 to 1910, inclusive, together with the increase and per cent. of increase during each decade, in comparison with the per cent. of increase for continental United States as a whole: * Includes population (5,321) of Indian reservations specially enumerated. The percentage of increase for the state during this decade was larger than that shown by any Federal census since 1850. Moreover the percentage increase of the State of New York has been greater than that of continental United States during the past two decades. In other words the population of the state has grown faster than that of the country at large. The State of New York has forty-nine cities. The largest, New York City, has 4,766,883 inhabitants, while Buffalo, the next largest city, has 423,715 inhabitants. Rochester, with 218,149 inhabitants, Syracuse, with 137,249 inhabitants, and Albany, with 100,253 inhabitants, are the only other cities in the state which have a population of more than 100,000. Of the remaining cities, two have from 75,000 to 100,000, two from 50,000 to 75,000, twelve from 25,000 to 50,000, twenty-four from 10,000 to 25,000, and four from 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants. The aggregate population of the forty-nine cities is 6,727,015, or 73.8 per cent. of the total population of the state. The following table compares the population of the City of New York in 1910, with that of the rest of the state: New York City... Rest of the state.. New York State..... 4,766,883 4,346,731 9,113,614 The population of the city from 1900 to 1910 increased 38.7 per cent. as compared with 25.4 per cent. in the State of New York and 21 per cent. in continental United States. The following table gives the population of the present area of the city and of its boroughs as returned at each Federal census from 1790 to 1910, inclusive: Urban and rural population compared.-The following table presents the population of the State of New York at the censuses of 1910 and 1900, respectively, distributed among cities and incorporated villages grouped according to specified limits of population, together with the percentage of the total population contained in each group at each of the censuses named. The classification is based upon the population of each place as it existed at each census. URBAN POPULATION. Of the population of the United States in 1910, 28,508,007 was urban, that is, living in cities of 25,000 or more inhabitants. Therefore about 31 per cent. of the entire population lives in cities of considerable size. Of this immense urban population, New York City contains, 4,766,883 or 16.7 per cent. The following table gives the population of the 50 largest cities of the country together with their rate of increase in the last ten years: |