Population
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1793 | 15,964 | — |
| 1800 | 16,330 | +2.3% |
| 1806 | 17,552 | +7.5% |
| 1821 | 18,910 | +7.7% |
| 1831 | 19,730 | +4.3% |
| 1836 | 25,324 | +28.4% |
| 1841 | 22,826 | −9.9% |
| 1846 | 24,799 | +8.6% |
| 1851 | 25,037 | +1.0% |
| 1856 | 26,799 | +7.0% |
| 1861 | 28,064 | +4.7% |
| 1866 | 30,119 | +7.3% |
| 1872 | 31,312 | +4.0% |
| 1876 | 35,785 | +14.3% |
| 1881 | 40,217 | +12.4% |
| 1886 | 42,829 | +6.5% |
| 1891 | 45,342 | +5.9% |
| 1896 | 43,587 | −3.9% |
| 1901 | 46,551 | +6.8% |
| 1906 | 44,133 | −5.2% |
| 1911 | 45,735 | +3.6% |
| 1921 | 45,942 | +0.5% |
| 1926 | 44,245 | −3.7% |
| 1931 | 45,067 | +1.9% |
| 1936 | 49,263 | +9.3% |
| 1946 | 51,040 | +3.6% |
| 1954 | 53,879 | +5.6% |
| 1962 | 60,632 | +12.5% |
| 1968 | 70,814 | +16.8% |
| 1975 | 77,300 | +9.2% |
| 1982 | 76,432 | −1.1% |
| 1990 | 75,609 | −1.1% |
| 1999 | 72,434 | −4.2% |
| 2008 | 68,980 | −4.8% |
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Famous quotes containing the word population:
“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that’s 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We’re in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.”
—Thomas McGuane (b. 1939)