The following is a statement from the Census Report of the population of Kalamazoo County for the years

1840, 1850, 1860, 1864 and 1868, showing the increase.

In 1840 the whole number of inhabitants was 7,380. 

In 1850 the population was 13,179. 

In the next ten years it had nearly doubled:

In 1860, the number of 24,663. 

In 1864 the population was given as 25,905. 

At this time (1868) it may be safely set down at 30,000. 

The value of real and personal estate, as assessed by the Supervisors for the year 1868, is $6,182,714, which multiplied by 4, would give even less than the actual market value, to-day, of such property.

In 1860 the number of farms in the County was 1,940, (an increase of about one thousand in ten years,) containing 137,663 acres of improved land, and 129,276 acres of unimproved land, and about 60,000 acres of so-called wild land.  Since that time there has been considerable land improved. The whole number of acres in the County being given at 300,000, (taking out lakes and streams,) it will be found thatbut little over one-half has been "improved." From this it may be seen that the resources of Kalamazoo County in regard to the one item of grain-producing are but partially developed. Its resources in respect to material and manufactures are scarcely broached as yet. The capabilities of the County for furnishing profitable means for the investment of capital are vast, and give the best assurance of large returns.

The population of the County is now estimated at 30,000. The population and statistics of the several villages below, are from an actual and certain canvass made by our corps of canvassers, and may be relied upon as entirely correct.

KALAMAZOO VILLAGE.

- Population 1869,.................................9,607.

1867 - 7,150

1869 - 9,607

Increase - 2,457

- Number of names in Directory of Kalamazoo Village:  1869 3,894.

1867 - 2,491

1869 -  3,894.

Increase - 1,403

- Number of dwelling houses

1867 - 1,494

1869 - 1,848

Increase - 354#

- The population of the (other) Villages in the County, in 1869, is as

follows:

Schoolcraft - 903

Galesburg - 873

Augusta -538

Brady - 490

Cooper Centre - 232

Gull Corners - 196

Oshtemo - 162

Comstock - 177

Climax - 138