SIZE OF APARTMENTS OCCUPIED. The table next submitted shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the per cent of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms: TABLE 80.-Per cent of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [This table includes only races with 20 or more households reporting. The totals, however, are for all races.] a Not including one apartment not reporting number of rooms. Of a total of 2,456 households studied in the foregoing table the largest proportion, or 27 per cent, occupy apartments of four rooms, while the smallest proportion, or 4.8 per cent, occupy apartments of one room; 23.4 per cent, 14.1 per cent, 13.2 per cent, 10 per cent, and 7.6 per cent occupying apartments of two, three, five, six, and seven room's, respectively. The foreign-born show a larger proportion of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms up to five than do either the native-born of foreign father or the native-born whites of native father. The negroes native-born of native father, however, show a larger proportion occupying apartments of two rooms than either the native-born of foreign father or the foreign-born, and a larger proportion occupying apartments of three rooms than the whites native-born of native father. Both the whites, native-born of native father, and those who were native-born of foreign father exhibit a larger proportion of households occupying apartments of five, six, and seven or more rooms than do the foreignborn. As regards the several foreign-born races, the Greek, with 97.7 per cent followed by the Bulgarian and South Italian, has the largest proportion of households, and, with the exception of the Slovenian, which show none, the Irish, with 5.4 per cent, preceded by the Servian and Roumanian, the smallest proportion of households, occupying apartments of three rooms or less. The table next submitted shows, by locality and by general nativity and race of head of household, the per cent of households occupying apartments of less than four rooms: TABLE 81.-Per cent of households occupying apartments of less than 4 rooms, by locality and by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [This table includes only races with 20 or more households reporting in each of two or more localities. The totals, however, are for all races.] Community A and Community B are included in Pittsburg district. Not including 1 apartment not reporting number of rooms. The significant feature of the above table is that in the East none of the native households in Community D, and only a very small percentage in Community C, as well as in the Pittsburg district, occupy apartments of less than 4 rooms, while 68.9 per cent of the households of native-born persons in the Birmingham district in the South have apartments of less than 4 rooms in size. This is due, however, to the fact that the prevailing style of apartments in the South is the cottage of about 3 rooms, while in the other localities, which are also urban centers as compared with the detached company village in the South, the tenement house with apartments of 4 or 5 rooms is generally available. The subdivisions in the East show only 1.8 per cent of the foreign-born in Community C have apartments of less than 4 rooms, as compared with 31.2 per cent in the Pittsburg district, and 49.5 per cent in Community D, followed by 73.9 per cent in the Birmingham district in the South, and 79.3 per cent in Community E in the Middle West. The large proportion shown for Community E in the Middle West is due to the fact that the foreign-born live in rooming houses, as a rule in apartments of 1 or 2 rooms, while in the South, as already explained in connection with the native-born, the housing facilities consist of cottages usually of 2 or 3 rooms. The proportion of foreign households having apartments of less than 4 rooms in Community C in the East is exceedingly small owing to the fact that the housing facilities in that city consist of houses in blocks containing from 5 to 10 rooms, each house usually being occupied by a very large boarding group or by a family with a considerable number of boarders. No racial tendencies as between localities can be noted for the households of the different foreign races owing to the existence of housing methods which are peculiar to one locality and which are not found in the other localities. The following table shows the average number of rooms per household, by locality and by general nativity and race of head of household: TABLE 82.-Average number of rooms per household, by locality and by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [This table includes only races with 10 or more households reporting in each of two or more localities. The totals, however, are for all races.] • Community A and Community B are included in the Pittsburg district. As can be seen from the totals in the above table, all households, whether of native or foreign head, have a higher number of rooms. per apartment in the three localities in the East than in the Birmingham district in the South, or Community E in the Middle West. The small apartments occupied by both the native and foreign households in the South are especially noteworthy, the apartment occupied by persons of native birth having an average of only 2.77, and the foreign-born 2.74, rooms, as compared with an average of 5.79 for the native-born and 4.04 for the foreign-born in the Pittsburg district in the East. Comparing the subdivision of the East, it should be noted that households whose heads are native-born of native father occupy larger apartments in the Pittsburg district and Community D, but smaller in Community C, than the households whose heads are native-born but of foreign father. Among the households whose heads are foreign-born the Bulgarians and Magyars have their smallest apartments in the Middle West, and the English, North Italians, South Italians, and Poles in the South. Considering the localities in the East and Middle West and eliminating the South, the Germans, South Italians, Servians, and Slovaks have apartments of the smallest average number of rooms in the Pittsburg district. SIZE OF HOUSEHOLDS STUDIED. The table next submitted exhibits the range in size of households by showing, according to general nativity and race of head of household, the per cent of households of each specified number of persons: TABLE 83.-Per cent of households of each specified number of persons, by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [This table includes only races with 20 or more households reporting. The totals, however, are for all races.] Bohemian and .7 .0 ONO .0 3.1 .0 .0 8.1 12.2 13.6 .0 3.6 5.4 .0 10.0 5.0 5.0 25.0 30.0 35.0 5.0 5.0 10.0 Of a total of 2,456 households studied in the foregoing table, the largest proportion, or 15.2 per cent, are households of 10 or more persons-households of 3, 4, and 5 persons following closely with 13 per cent, 13.6 per cent, and 13.1 per cent, respectively. It will be seen that the largest proportion, or 17.2 per cent, of the households the heads of which are foreign-born are households of 10 or more persons; the largest proportion, or 22.9 per cent and 21.3 per cent, respectively, of the households whose heads are native-born of foreign father and the households whose heads are whites, native-born of native father, contained 3 persons. The largest proportion, or 38 per cent, of the households whose heads are negroes, native-born of native father, are households of 2 persons. The smallest proportion, or 7 per cent and 2.4 per cent, respectively, of the households whose heads are foreign-born and the households whose heads are nativeborn of foreign father had 9 persons. The smallest proportion or 1.9 per cent and 0.8 per cent, respectively, of the households whose heads are whites, native-born of native father, and the households whose heads were negroes, native-born of native father, are of 10 or more persons, the native-born negroes, however, showing the same proportion of households of 8, as 10 or more persons. Considering the households whose heads are of each foreign-born race it will be seen that over 50 per cent of the households the heads of which are Bulgarians, English, French, South Italian, and Slovak contained less than 6 persons. The following table shows, by locality and by general nativity and race of head of household, the percentage of households of less than 5 persons each: TABLE 84.-Per cent of households of less than 5 persons each, by locality and by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [This table includes only races with 20 or more households reporting in each of two or more localities. The totals, however, are for all races.] a Community A and Community B are included in the Pittsburg district. |