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TABLE 10.-Average family size by type of household and race, 730 rural house-
 holds, North and West Florida, 1956


 : Family size

Type of household
 :All White : Nonwhite
 : households : households : households


 : Number Number Number

Farms:
 Residential 4.34 3.84 5.52
 Part-time 5.27 5.07 5.67
 Commercial 3.86 3.75 4.38

All farms 4.22 3.97 5.06

Nonfarms 3.68 3.36 4.15

 All households :3.95 3.71 4.48



members. Nearly 1 in 6 of the nonwhite households had 8 or more members com-

pared with about one household of this size for every 20 white households.

Most of the households having only one member were located on nonfarm units.

Generally speaking, a relatively large proportion of the residential farms

had only two members; most of the commercial farms were operated by white

families having 2 to 5 members; and, families on part-time farms had relatively

larger proportions in the larger family size classes.

 The parents in the 730 rural households reported 1,602 children who

had left home to stay, an average of 2.19 per household (Table 12). The

number who had left home exceeded the number of offspring still at h@me in 1956.

In addition to the relatively large families still at home, this is further

evidence of the high birthrate in this low-income area. In terms of the more

mature offspring, those 14 years of age and older, an average of more than

three had left home for each one remaining. This says nothing concerning