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II. Communities in the Federal States and the Prussian Provinces: Population According to Size Category
Federal States and Prussian Provinces | Year | [Percentage of population] living in
communities with … inhabitants | Total Population | | | | fewer than 2,000 | 2,000 to 4,999 | 5,000 to 19,999 | 20,000
and more | of them, 100,000 and more | | | % | | Province of East Prussia | 1871 | 79.2 | 8.9 | 11. 9* | 6.2 | 1,822,934 | 1890 | 74.6 | 8.5 | 6.3 | 10.6 | 8.3 | 1,958,663 | 1910 | 67.0 | 6.1 | 8.9 | 18.0 | 11.9 | 2,064,175 | Province of West Prussia | 1871 | 74.8 | 9.3 | 6.7 | 9.2 | – | 1,314,915 | 1890 | 68.3 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 14.6 | 8.4 | 1,433,681 | 1910 | 60.0 | 8.4 | 12.8 | 18.5 | 10.0 | 1,703,474 | Province of Brandenburg (without Berlin) | 1871 | 46.2 | 7.3 | 12.2 | 34.3 | 28.9 | 2,034,801 | 1890 | 32.2 | 6.0 | 12.0 | 49.8 | 38.3 | 2,541,720 | 1910 | 32.0 | 7.9 | 13.3 | 46.7 | 20.2 | 4,092,616 | Province of Pomerania | 1871 | 68.7 | 9.5 | 14.6 | 7.2 | – | 1,431,492 | 1890 | 62.3 | 7.9 | 15.8 | 14.0 | 7.6 | 1,520,889 | 1910 | 55.3 | 6.8 | 14.3 | 23.5 | 13.7 | 1,716,921 | Province of Poznan | 1871 | 79.1 | 9.4 | 6.2 | 5.3 | – | 1,583,843 | 1890 | 73.7 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 6.3 | – | 1,751,642 | 1910 | 66.4 | 7.8 | 11.9 | 13.9 | 7.5 | 2,099,831 | Province of Silesia | 1871 | 70.0 | 10.8 | 11.7 | 7.5 | 5.6 | 3,707,167 | 1890 | 60.2 | 10.9 | 14.1 | 14.8 | 7.3 | 4,224,458 | 1910 | 46.9 | 10.3 | 17.9 | 24.8 | 9.8 | 5,225,962 | Province of Saxony | 1871 | 60.2 | 13.4 | 14.6 | 11.8 | – | 2,103,281 | 1890 | 49.9 | 14.2 | 13.4 | 22.5 | 11.8 | 2,580,073 | 1910 | 42.9 | 13.5 | 12.6 | 30.9 | 18.5 | 3,089,275 | Province of Schleswig-Holstein | 1871 | 64.2 | 11.4 | 11.4 | 13.0 | – | 1,045,419 | 1890 | 54.4 | 10.8 | 12.6 | 22.2 | 11.8 | 1,219,523 | 1910 | 41.4 | 12.0 | 14.9 | 31.7 | 23.7 | 1,621,004 | Province of Hannover | 1871 | 75.3 | 7.3 | 10.7 | 6.7 | – | 1,963,080 | 1890 | 65.3 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 15.1 | 7.2 | 2,278,348 | 1910 | 54.0 | 9.6 | 8.6 | 27.9 | 10.3 | 2,942,436 | Province of Westphalia | 1871 | 51.2 | 27.8 | 13.0 | 8.0 | – | 1,775,175 | 1890 | 36.7 | 22.6 | 24.9 | 15.8 | – | 2,428,661 | 1910 | 19.7 | 16.8 | 23.8 | 39.6 | 12.6 | 4,125,096 | Province of Hesse-Nassau | 1871 | 70.2 | 10.7 | 15.3 | 13.8 | – | 1,400,370 | 1890 | 58.8 | 12.4 | 8.2 | 20.6 | 10.8 | 1,664,439 | 1910 | 46.0 | 11.2 | 7.6 | 35.1 | 30.5 | 2,221,021 | Province of the Rhineland | 1871 | 42.7 | 18.4 | 19.8 | 19.1 | 3.6 | 3,579,347 | 1890 | 32.5 | 15.2 | 19.8 | 32.5 | 18.6 | 4,710,391 | 1910 | 20.7 | 11.7 | 17.7 | 49.8 | 32.9 | 7,121,140 | Kingdom of Prussia (overall) | 1871 | 62.8 | 12.3 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 5.2 | 24,691,085 | 1890 | 51.6 | 11.6 | 13.9 | 22.9 | 13.3 | 29,957,367 | 1910 | 38.4 | 10.2 | 14.1 | 37.1 | 22.4 | 40,165,219 | Kingdom of Bavaria | 1871 | 76.4 | 7.7 | 7.2 | 8.7 | 3.5 | 4,863,485 | 1890 | 68.2 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 15.9 | 8.8 | 5,594,982 | 1910 | 55.3 | 10.3 | 8.7 | 25.8 | 15.0 | 6,887,291 | Kingdom of Saxony | 1871 | 62.1 | 7.7 | 12.7 | 17.5 | 11.1 | 2,556,244 | 1890 | 37.1 | 15.2 | 20.0 | 27.7 | 20.3 | 3,502,684 | 1910 | 27.0 | 12.6 | 21.0 | 39.3 | 32.2 | 4,806,661 | Württemberg | 1871 | 69.3 | 14.2 | 10.0 | 6.5 | – | 1,818,539 | 1890 | 61.2 | 15.4 | 11.2 | 12.2 | 6.9 | 2,036,522 | 1910 | 50.0 | 14.4 | 14.6 | 21.1 | 11.7 | 2,437,574 | Baden | 1871 | 67.5 | 17.1 | 8.5 | 6.9 | – | 1,461,539 | 1890 | 57.4 | 18.7 | 8.0 | 15.9 | – | 1,657,867 | 1910 | 42.4 | 19.7 | 10.5 | 27.3 | 15.3 | 2,142,833 | Hesse | 1875** | 61.4 | 17.8 | 7.3 | 13.5 | – | 884,218 | 1890 | – | – | – | – | – | 992,883 | 1910 | 39.4 | 18.6 | 14.6 | 27.4 | 8.6 | 1,282,051 | Mecklenburg-Schwerin | 1875** | 61.7 | 17.0 | 10.1 | 11.2 | – | 553,785 | 1890 | – | – | – | – | – | 578,342 | 1910 | 52.4 | 15.0 | 11.8 | 20.7 | 0.0 | 639,958 | Hamburg | 1871 | 6.4 | 9.0 | 16.5 | 68.1 | – | 338,974 | 1890 | – | – | – | – | – | 622,530 | 1910 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 4.0 | 91.8 | 91.8 | 1,014,664 | Alsace-Lorraine | 1875** | 62.9 | 13.9 | 8.6 | 14.5 | – | 1,531,801 | 1890 | – | – | – | – | – | 1,603,506 | 1910 | 46.8 | 14.6 | 17.9 | 20.6 | 9.5 | 1,874,014 | German Reich | 1871 | 63.9 | 12.4 | 11.2 | 12.5 | 4.8 | 41,058,804 | 1890 | 53.0 | 12.0 | 13.1 | 21.9 | 12.1 | 49,428,470 | 1910 | 40.0 | 11.2 | 14.1 | 34.7 | 21.3 | 64,925,993 |
* Cumulative value for towns with 5,000 to 19,999 people and 20,000 and more.
** A minimal margin of error must be tolerated with regard to the figures for 1875, since the size categories were defined differently than in the table: 2,000 and fewer; 2,001-5,000; 5,001-20,000; and more than 20,000.
Source: The table was compiled from statistics in the following: Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reich 1915 [Statistical Almanac for the German Reich 1915], pp. 4-5 (for the year 1910); 1880, pp. 6-7 (for the year 1875), and Richard Tilly, “Popular Disorders in Nineteenth Century Germany: Preliminary Survey,” Journal of Social History (Fall 1970), pp. 1-40. Original German table reprinted in Gerd Hohorst, Jürgen Kocka, and Gerhard A. Ritter, Sozialgeschichtliches Arbeitsbuch II [Social History Workbook II]. 2nd ed. Munich: Beck, 1978, pp. 42-44.
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