U.S. Census of Housing, 1960 : States and Small Areas : United States Summary: Data on Tenure, Rent, Value, Equipment, Condition, Plumbing, Etc, Issue 1

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U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1963 - 258 pages

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Page lviii - Persons of Mexican birth or ancestry who are not definitely of Indian or other nonwhite race are classified as white.
Page l - In general, the urban population comprises all persons living in urbanized areas and in places of 2,500 inhabitants or more outside urbanized areas. More specifically, according to the definition adopted for use in the 1960 Census, the urban population comprises...
Page 1-243 - Such housing has one or more critical defects; or has a combination of intermediate defects in sufficient number or extent to require considerable repair or rebuilding ; or is of inadequate original construction. The defects are either so critical or so widespread that the structure should be extensively repaired, rebuilt, or torn down.
Page lxiii - Such defects are signs of neglect which lead to serious structural deterioration or damage If not corrected. Dilapidated housing does not provide safe and adequate shelter and in Its present condition endangers the health, safety, or well-being of the occupants.
Page liv - A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is, when the...
Page l - ... urbanized areas; (c) towns in New England and townships in New Jersey and Pennsylvania which contain no incorporated municipalities as subdivisions and have either 25,000 inhabitants or more or a population of 2,500 to 25,000 and a density of 1,500 persons or more per square mile; (d) counties in States other than the New England States, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania that have no incorporated municipalities within their boundaries and have a density of 1,500 persons per square mile; and (e) unincorporated...
Page li - Since the urbanized area outside of incorporated places was defined in terms of enumeration districts, the boundaries for the most part follow such features as roads, streets, railroads, streams, and other clearly defined lines which may be easily identified by census enumerators in the field and often do not conform to the boundaries of political units.
Page lii - Any city in an urbanized area which is a central city of a standard metropolitan statistical area is also a central city of the urbanized area. With but two exceptions, the names of the central cities appear in the titles of the areas. The central cities of the New York-northeastern New Jersey area are the central cities of the New York, Newark, Jersey City, and Paterson-Clifton-Passaic standard metropolitan statistical areas.
Page l - Wisconsin); (b) the densely settled urban fringe, whether incorporated or unincorporated, of urbanized areas; (c) towns in New England and townships in New Jersey and Pennsylvania which contain no incorporated municipalities as subdivisions and have either 25,000 inhabitants or more or a population of 2,500 to 25,000 and a density of 1,500 persons or more per square mile; (d) counties in States other than the New...
Page liii - It must have 50% or more of its population living in contiguous minor civil divisions with a density of at least 150 persons per square mile, in an unbroken chain of minor civil divisions with such density radiating from a central city in the area.

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