Population
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1793 | 3,085 | — |
| 1800 | 3,039 | −1.5% |
| 1806 | 3,097 | +1.9% |
| 1821 | 2,729 | −11.9% |
| 1831 | 3,072 | +12.6% |
| 1836 | 3,241 | +5.5% |
| 1841 | 3,543 | +9.3% |
| 1846 | 3,528 | −0.4% |
| 1851 | 4,060 | +15.1% |
| 1856 | 3,684 | −9.3% |
| 1861 | 4,529 | +22.9% |
| 1866 | 5,289 | +16.8% |
| 1872 | 5,659 | +7.0% |
| 1876 | 6,250 | +10.4% |
| 1881 | 7,131 | +14.1% |
| 1886 | 7,677 | +7.7% |
| 1891 | 8,153 | +6.2% |
| 1896 | 8,082 | −0.9% |
| 1901 | 7,310 | −9.6% |
| 1906 | 7,776 | +6.4% |
| 1911 | 8,099 | +4.2% |
| 1921 | 6,185 | −23.6% |
| 1926 | 7,097 | +14.7% |
| 1931 | 7,110 | +0.2% |
| 1936 | 6,981 | −1.8% |
| 1946 | 6,031 | −13.6% |
| 1954 | 6,091 | +1.0% |
| 1962 | 6,284 | +3.2% |
| 1968 | 6,805 | +8.3% |
| 1975 | 6,642 | −2.4% |
| 1982 | 6,195 | −6.7% |
| 1990 | 5,976 | −3.5% |
| 1999 | 5,896 | −1.3% |
| 2008 | 5,365 | −9.0% |
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Famous quotes containing the word population:
“In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,—no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,—so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)
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—Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)