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Population Trends in the Western Cross Timbers
essentially agrarian. Agrarian societies have been referred to as
the population seedbeds of the nation since farm families tend to
be much larger than urban ones. The young population is likely
to be more migratory, its marriage and birth rates are higher,
and it requires different kinds of social services than those needed
by aged population. But even though the heartland is essentially
agrarian in culture, it fails to fit the remainder of the traditional
pattern. While the median age of farm population in the nation
and in the South was 23.0 and 23.3 years respectively in 1950,
the median age for the heartland was 33.3 years (Table 16).
Comanche and Erath counties had the largest number of senior
citizens with the median age in advance of thirty-five years in
each instance. Stephens County had a median age which was
about average for the heartland, but it had the smallest number
of inhabitants sixty-five years of age or older. Palo Pinto, East-
land, Erath, and Comanche counties had the largest number of
citizens sixty-five years of age or older, the percentage being in
excess of 12 per cent in each instance.
The essentially rural character of the social structure and the
low standards of living which characterize most sections of the
province would seem to assure the heartland a position near the
bottom of most indices of educational attainment. That this is
TABLE 16
MISCELLANEOUS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
POPULATION, 195030
Per cent
Total Inhabitants Per Median Median School 65 Years
County Population Square Mile Age Years Completed or Older
Montague 17,070 18 33.4 8.7 10.9
Young 16,910 19 31.9 9.5 9.3
Jack 7,755 8 33.2 9.7 10.4
Wise 16,141 18 33.6 8.9 11.9
Stephens 10,597 11 33.0 9.5 9.1
Palo Pinto 17,154 18 34.5 9.0 12.5
Parker 21,528 24 32.2 9.3 11.4
Eastland 23,942 25 34.4 9.2 12.2
Erath 18,434 17 35.4 9.6 12.7
Comanche 15,516 16 35.5 9.1 12.9
Brown 28,607 30 32.3 9.9 10.3
soBureau of the Census, County and City Data Book, 956, A Stastical Abstract
Supplement (Washington, 1957), 274-298.393
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