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Home » History » Special Projects » Cliffside in 1930 » Census Extracts » Census Fact Sheet

Census Fact Sheet

Census Fact Sheet

Population and Average Age

Category Totals % of Pop % of Race % of Sex Avg Age
All Citizens 2,299       23.023
Females 1,202 52.28     22.857
Males 1,097 47.72     23.205
Blacks 235 10.22     20.83
Whites 2,064 89.78     23.273
Females-Black 131 5.70 55.74 10.90 19.679
Males-Black 104 4.52 44.26 9.48 22.279
Females-White 1,071 46.59 51.89 89.10 23.246
Males-White 993 43.19 48.11 90.52 23.302

Education

Attended school or college any time since Sept. 1, 1929
Category Totals % of Pop % of Race % of Sex
All Students 593 25.79    
Females 305 13.27    
Males 288 12.53    
Blacks 59 2.57    
Whites 534 23.23    
Females-Black 32 1.39 13.62 2.66
Males-Black 27 1.17 11.49 2.46
Females-White 273 11.87 13.23 22.71
Males-White 261 11.35 12.65 23.79

Can read and write
Category Totals % of Pop % of Race % of Sex
All Literate 1,560 67.86    
Females 823 35.80    
Males 737 32.06    
Blacks 108 4.70    
Whites 1,452 63.16    
Females-Black 60 2.61 25.53 4.99
Males-Black 48 2.09 20.43 4.38
Females-White 763 33.19 36.97 63.48
Males-White 689 29.97 33.38 62.81

Place of Birth

  NC SC Elsewhere
Category Totals % Pop % Sex Totals % Pop % Sex Totals % Pop
Citizens 1,938 84.30   286 12.44   75 3.26
Females 1,001 43.54 83.28 162 7.05 13.48 39 1.70
Males 937 40.76 77.95 124 5.39 10.32 36 1.57

Those born “elsewhere” include 43 in Georgia, seven in Alabama, eight in Tennessee, four in Illinois, three in Virginia, two in Pennsylvania, and one each in Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Vermont. Two persons gave no response.

Most Frequently Used Names

(“No.” = Number of persons with the name.)

Rank Surname No. Given – Male No. Given – Female No.
1 Green 97 James 51 Mary 48
2 Scruggs 89 John 41 Sarah 27
3 Hawkins 44 William 36 Margaret 26
4 Hames 39 Robert 35 Annie 21
5 Blanton 35 Charles 32 Elizabeth 18
6 Bridges 34 George 23 Bessie 14
7 Wall 33 Thomas 18 Lillie 14
8 Jolley 31 Fred 17 Minnie 13
9 Hill 26 Henry 16 Nellie 12
10 Watkins 26 Ralph 13 Louise 11
11 Harris 24 Walter 11 Lula 11
12 White 23 Paul 11 Jessie 10

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Lady of the early 1930s with here two young children on the steps of a Cliffside home.

Those who compiled, interpreted, typed and corrected this material are:

Betty Bailey
Don Bailey
Reno Bailey
Bud & Jeri Crow
Jim Haynes
JoAnn Huskey
Horton Landreth
Jim Ruppe

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