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TABLE 16.--Urban Population by Milk Marketing Areas, Florida, April 1960
 Urban Population
Milk Marketing
 Area Percent of Percent of
 Number Area Total State Total
northwest 306,838 51.3 8.4
Northeast 488,084 68.7 13.3
Central 544,900 60.3 14.9
Tampa Bay 825,504 76.5 22.6
Southeast 1,496,057 90.1 40.8
 Florida 3,661,383 73.9 100.0

 Source: U. S. Bureau of the Census, U. S. Census of Population:
1960, Number of Inhabitants, Florida (Washington, D. C.: U. S. Govern-
ment Printing Office, 1960) Final Report PC(1)-11A.


TABLE 17.--Variation in Urban Population by Milk Marketing Areas,
 Florida, 1950 and 1960

 : Urban Population : Relative Change from 1950-1960 in
Milk Marketing :
 Area :1950 : 1960 : Urban Residents: Share of State
 : in Area :Urban Population
 : : (1950=100) : (1950=100)

Northwest 178,769 306,838 172 85
northeast 321,221 488,084 152 84
Central 251,584 544,900 217 107
Tampa Bay 397,125 825,504 208 103
Southeast 665.197 1,496,057 225 111
 Florida 1,813,896 3,661,383 202 100

 Source: U. S. Bureau of the Census, U. S. Census of Population:
1960, Number of Inhabitants, Florida (Washington, D. C.: U. S. Govern-
ment Printing Office, 1961) Final Report PC(1)--11A.


population were in the more southerly located milk marketing areas
of the State. The urban population more than doubled in Central
Florida, Tampa Lay and Southeastern Florida from 1950 to 1960. The
addition to urban population in Northwest Florida was 72 percent
of the 1950 figure and 52 in northeast Florida.