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Population Facts
(Based upon the 1894 state census.)
The age distribution of Lansing residents in 1894 closely matched that of the state
overall. The city of the 1990s was significantly older, with only 18% of the population
under 21.
In 1897 half of Lansing’s African Americans lived in the Third Ward, the city’s
southwest corner (south of the center line of Washtenaw St., continued to the western line
of the city, and west of the center line of Washington Ave., and north of Grand River).
The rest were scattered throughout the city. The state census of 1894 recorded no
Hispanics or Asians in Lansing, and only two Native Americans.
In the 1890s, about one-third of all Michigan residents were foreign-born, so
Lansing’s immigrant population was smaller than average. In contrast, as many as half
the people in some Upper Peninsula mining towns were born outside the United States.
Lansing's population in 1897 was approximately 16,000. (The city of East Lansing did
not yet exist.) Michigan cities of similar size during the 1990s included Owosso and Sault Ste.
Marie.
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