[Population of Guilford County]

              POPULATION OF GUILFORD COUNTY (i)
The original  U.  S,  census  in 1790 counted 7,191 residents in Guilford County.    The
population increase for Guilford County between, the year 1790 and the beginning of the
20th century was  31,883,  an average annual  increase of 4 per cent or less  than 300 people
per year.     In the 20th century,  Guilford'County's  growth rate has varied from a low of
15,7 per cent increase in the 1930 - 40 decade to a high of 67.8 increase in the 1920-30
decade.    During the decades  following the depression era,  1940-1950 and 1950-1960 the
population of Guilford County increased at a rate of 24,1 per cent and 29.0 per cent
respectively.     The population of Guilford County  in  1900 was  39,074,   in  1940  153,916  and
in  1960,  246,520.    There are four active incorporated municipalities in Guilford County:
Greensboro,  High   Point,   Gibsonville and Jamestown in order of population and magnitude.
Guilford County is unique in North Carolina in that the county has two principal  cities.
Increase in population by decade was the rule in all but one instance--Gihsonville in
the decade of 1950 to   1960.     The town of Jamestown,   unincorporated until   1947,  had  the
largest  rate of growth between 1950 and 1960 of ail  the municipalities in the county.
In   1900,   the population of Greensboro was   10,035.     In  1940,   59,319  and in   1960,   119,574,
and in 1965,  135,000.    The population in High Point in 1900 was 4,163.   In 1940, was 38,495.
In   1960,   62,0fi3.     The population of Gibsonville in  I960 was   1,784   and  in Jamestown,   1,247.
Guilford County ranked second in population in 1900  (Mecklenburg ranked first).    However,
between the late twenties  and early forties,  Guilford's population surpassed Mecklenburg's
population, only to drop back into second place in 1950 and 1960.    The growth of population
in Guilford County since 1900 has increased at a greater rate than that of the state of
North Carolina or that of the United States.    The population of Guilford County at the turn
of the century was 2.06 per cent of North Carolina population.     By 1960,  the population,
which resided within the county, was 5.41 per cent of the state's total population.    The
geometric projection suggests that the total population in Guilford County will be 410,233
in   1980  and 468,955  in  1985.     The projected total   for Greensboro  in  1985 was  214,754,     The
total   in  1980  for Greensboro is   192,162.     The total   for High  Point in  1980 is 97,575.     At  the
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