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TABLE 15.--Total Population and Rate of Increase, by Milk Marketing
 Areas, Florida, 1930-1960

 : Milk Marketing Area
Year
 SI orthwesti northeast Central: Tampa Bayi Southeasti Florida

 Total Population
1930 293,916 322,396 278,777 312,420 260,612 1,468,121
1940 345,442 387,585 337,407 382,173 444,807 1,897,414
1950 436,814 521,797 470,453 560,537 731,713 2,771,314
1960 598,336 710,282 904,111 1,079,030 1,659,801 4,951,560

 Percent Increase
1930 to
 1940 17.5 20.2 21.0 22.3 70.7 29.2
1940 to
 1950 26.5 34.6 39.4 46.7 75.7 46.1
1950 to
 1960 37.0 36.1 92.2 92.5 112.3 78.7


 Source: U. S. Bureau of the Census, U. S. Census of Population:
1.950, Vol. II, Characteristics of the Population, Part 10, Florida
(Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1952). Also,
U. S. Census of Population: 1960, Number of Inhabitants, Florida
(Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1961)Final
Report PC(1)-11A.


 Trend in Urban Population.--In numbers of urban residents in 1960,
milk marketing areas ranked from smallest to largest were: Northwest,
Northeast, Central, Tampa Bay and Southeast (Table 16). The pro-
portion of total population classified as urban ranged from 51.3 per-
cent in Northwest to 90.1 percent in Southeast Florida. The major
consuming group for commercially processed and distributed fluid
milk is the urban population. Consequently, Southeast Florida, with
over one-third of the State's total population and 40 percent of its
urban inhabitants, requires the largest volume of fluid milk to meet
consumer needs of any area.

 Milk marketing areas have become increasingly urbanized.33/
As shown in Table 17, the 1960 urban population of the State was
202 percent of the 1950 total. The greatest increases in urban



 33/Changes in definitions of the Bureau of the Census for -
classifying population as urban residents occurred in 1950. Conse-
quently, only the relative change from 1950 to 1960 is presented.