1899 Puerto Rico census

The 1899 Puerto Rico census (Porto Rico was also used) was a national population census held in Puerto Rico and first under U.S. control by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. War Department. It was the tenth census combined with the nine previous censuses taken by Spain. The day used for the census was Friday November 10, 1899 with a total population counted as 953,243 - an increase of 154,678 or 16% over the previous 1887 census taken by the Spanish government.

Population schedule

The population schedule used in the census, translated into English and reduced in size is as follows: Situation Street. Number of house. Number of house or building in the order of visitation. Number of family in the order of visitation. Name of every person residing with this family or in this house Relationship Relationship of each person to the head of the family. Personal description Color. Sex. Age at last birthday. Status. Nativity Native country of this person. Citizenship Cuban, Spaniard, or in suspense. Occupation Occupation, trade or profession of every person 10 years of age and over. Instruction Months of attendance at school during the last school year. Can read. (primary) Can write. (primary) Higher. Sanitary conditions Source of water used. Disposition of garbage. Latrine system.

Method of tabulation It was taken that to save time, the tabulation should be done by machine and not by the old hand-tally system. As the machines invented by Mr Herman Hollerith were successfully used in the earlier eleventh and were to be used for the twelfth U.S. census, it was adopted.

Population and dwellings Department Total population Increase (%) Humacao (with Río Grande) 100,8668.2 Mayagüez 127,56610.0 Guayama 111,986 15.5 Aguadilla 99,64515.7 Bayamón (less Rio Grande) 147,68120.2 Ponce 203,19127.5 Arecibo 162,308 30.7 Puerto Rico953,243 19.4

Population by municipal districts Aguadilla department 99,645 Guayama department-continued Aguada 10,581 Cidra 7,552 Aguadilla 17,830 Comerío 8,249 Isabela 14,888 Guayama 12,749 Lares 20,883 Gurabo 8,700 Moca 12,410 Juncos 8,429 Rincón 6,641 Salinas5,731 San Sebastian 16,412 San Lorenzo 13,433 Arecibo department 162,308 Humacao department 88,501 Arecibo 36,910 Fajardo 16,782 Barceloneta 9,357 Humacao14,313 Camuy 10,887 Maunabo6,221 Ciales 18,115 Naguabo10,873 Hatillo 10,449 Patillas11,163 Manati 13,989 Piedras8,602 Morovis 11,309 Vieques6,642 Quebradillas 7,432 Yabucoa13,905 Utuado 43,860 Mayagüez department127,566 Bayamon department 160,046 Añasco 13,311 Bayamon 19,940 Cabo Rojo16,154 Carolina 11,965 Hormigueros3,215 Corozal 11,508 Lajas8,789 Dorado 3,804 Las Marias11,279 Loiza 12,522 Maricao8,312 Naranjito 8,101 Mayagüez35,700 Rio Grande 12,365 Sabana Grande10,560 Rio Piedras 13,760 San German20,246 San Juan 32,048 Ponce department 203,191 Toa Alta 7,908 Adjuntas 19,484 Toa Baja 4,030 Aibonito 8,596 Trujillo Alto 5,683 Barranquitas8,103 Vega Alta6,107 Barros14,845 Vega Baja 10,305 Coamo15,144 Guayama department 111,986 Guayanilla9,540 Aguas Buenas 7,977 Juana Diaz27,896 Arroyo 4,867 Peñuelas12,129 Caguas 19,857 Ponce55,477 Cayey 14,442 Santa Isabel4,858 - - Yauco 27,119

Age

Data of the total population by median age. Department Median age Guayama 17.3 Arecibo 17.6 Humacao 17.7 Aguadilla 17.9 Bayamon 18.2 Ponce 18.5 Mayaguez 19.1

Nativity Birthplace

The number of foreign-born returned by the census is 13,872 or about 1.5% of the total population. There were few regions in the Western Hemisphere in which the proportion of natives is so high and that of the foreign-born so low. Of the total number of foreigners 5,935 or 43 per cent were found in the three cities of San Juan, Ponce and Mayagüez. Of the total foreign-born, 7,690 or 55% were born in Spain.

Birthplace Number % Puerto Rico 939,371 98.5 Foreign-born 13,872 1.5 Europe - - Spain 7,690 Spanish America 1,542 0.2 West India islands 1,194 - Africa 427 - United States 1,069 0.1 China 68 - Puerto Rico 953,243 100

Race With reference to race, the population of Porto Rico is divided by the census into two main classes - those who are and those who are not White. The number belonging to each of these classes is as follows: Race Population % White 589,426 61.8 Colored* 363,817 38.2 (Persons of mixed blood) 304,352 83.6 Puerto Rico 953,243 100.0 The colored in the table includes very few (75) Chinese and many persons of mixed white and Black African blood as well as pure Black. Somewhat more than three-fifths of the population of Porto Rico are white and nearly two-fifths are partly or entirely African or Black. By the 1899 census five-sixths (83.6 per cent) of the total colored were returned as of mixed blood.

Gallery Supervisors and enumerators of different departments.

1899 Puerto Rico census

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