Research Article
Economic Transition in the City of Paterson, New Jersey (America’s First Planned Industrial City): Causes, Impacts, and Urban Policy Implications
Table 2
Population growth in Paterson, 1810–1950.
| Census year | Population | Change (%) |
| 1810 | 2023 | — | 1820 | 3338 | +65.0 | 1830 | 7710 | +131.0 | 1840 | 7596 | −1.5 | 1850 | 11,341 | +49.0 | 1860 | 19,588 | +22.7 | 1870 | 33,579 | +71.4 | 1880 | 51,031 | +52.0 | 1890 |
78,347
| +53.5 | 1900 | 105,171 | +34.2 | 1910 | 125,600 | +19.4 | 1920 | 135,875 | +8.2 | 1930 | 138,513 | +1.9 | 1940 | 139,656 | +0.8 | 1950 | 139,135 | −0.4 |
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Source: Job and Bakal [16].
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