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Total 1,948

POPULATION.

The persistent high price of Loudoun lands has discouraged increase of
population by immigration. Indeed, in more than eighty-five years,
except for the slight fluctuations of certain decades, there has been
no increase through any medium.

The last census (1900) fixed Loudoun's population at 21,948, of which
number 16,079 were whites, 5,869 negroes, and the remaining 101
foreign born. This aggregate is even less than that shown by the
census of 1820, which gave the county a population of 22,702, or 754
more than in 1900.

The succeeding schedules, giving complete statistics of population for
Loudoun County by the latest and highest authority, were taken from
United States Census reports, collected in 1900 and published in 1902.

_Population, Dwellings, and Families:_

_1900._ _Private Families._
Population 21,948 Number 4,195
Dwellings 4,157 Population 21,690
Families 4,231 Average size 5.2

_Private Families Occupying Owned and Hired and Free and Encumbered
Homes, 1900._

Total private families 4,195

_Farm Homes Owned._ _Other Homes Owned._
Free 959 Free 622
Encumbered 257 Encumbered 147
Unknown 120 Unknown 81
Hired 648 Hired 1,169
Unknown 7 Unknown 185
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Total 1,991 Total 2,204

_Native and Foreign Born and White and Colored Population, Classified
by Sex, 1900._

_Native born._ _Native White--Foreign Parents._
Male 10,634 Male 114
Female 11,213 Female 121

_Foreign born._ _Foreign White._
Male 59 Male 58
Female 42 Female 42

_Native White--Native Parents._ _Total Colored._
Male 7,583 Male 2,938
Female 8,161 Female 2,931

In 1860, one year before the outbreak of the Civil War, the County
held within its boundaries 21,774 souls: 15,021 white, 5,501 slave,
and 1,252 free colored. In number of slaves at this period Loudo