Change in Missouri American Indian and Aleut Population 1990-2000
The Missouri American Indian population increased from 19,835 in 1990 to 25,076 in 2000 - an increase of 26.4 percent. Despite that increase American Indians still accounted for only 0.4 percent of Missouri's total population in both 1990 and 2000.
The American Indian population is dispersed throughout Missouri. All 115 counties have some Indian population. The Indian population increased in 95 of the 115 counties during the 1990s (Map 1). Among Missouri's counties the largest Indian population was found in Jackson County (Kansas City) with 3,168 in 2000. However, the increase in Jackson County was only 136 from 1990 to 2000 - an increase of 4.5 percent.
Table 1 reports that there were 52 Missouri counties in 1990 that had an Indian population of less than 50. However, the number of counties with fewer than 50 Indians declined to 33 by 2000. The reason for the decline in number of counties was that the Indian population increased to more than 50 in 19 of the counties that were below 50 in 1990. Accordingly, there was an increase of 17 counties having an Indian population of more than 50 but less than 500 in 2000.
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As indicated by Table 1, the 52 counties having a 1990 Indian population of less than 50 had a total of 1,382 Indian people in 1990. But the Indian population of the 33 counties having fewer than 50 Indian residents in 2000 declined to a total of 842. There was an average of about 25 Indian residents in each of the small Indian population counties in both 1990 and 2000.
Twenty-three counties had an Indian population of between 50 and 99 in 1990, but that number increased to 28 counties in that population size group in 2000. The aggregate Indian population of counties in this size group increased from 1,675 in 1990 to 2,003 in 2000 - an increase of 19.6 percent. There was an average of about 72 Indians living in each of the 23 counties in this size group in 1990 and in the 28 counties in this size group in 2000.
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Again, according to Table 1, there were 31 counties having an Indian population of between 100 and 499 in 1990 and 43 counties in that size group in 2000. The total Indian population in that size group of counties was 5,730 in 1990 and 8,934 in 2000. It was counties in this size range that had the greatest increase in Indian population during the 1990s - an increase of 3,204 (55.9 percent). As also shown in Table 1, American Indians living in this group of 43 counties in 2000 accounted for 35.6 percent of Missouri's total Indian population. As shown on Map 2, most of the counties having an Indian population of greater than 100 but less than 500 in 2000 were found throughout the Ozarks in southern Missouri.
Table 1 shows that there were nine Missouri counties having an Indian population of greater than 500 in 1990. Those counties had an aggregate Indian population of 11,048 in 1990. The number of counties having more than 500 Indian residents increased to 11 in 2000 with those counties having an aggregate Indian population of 13,297. As can be observed from Map 2, all but one of the counties having more than 500 Indian population in 2000 were metropolitan (Jefferson, St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles in the St. Louis MSA; Jackson and Clay in the Kansas City MSA; Newton and Jasper in the Joplin MSA; Greene in the Springfield MSA; and Boone in the Columbia MSA). The lone rural county having an Indian population of greater than 500 in 2000 was McDonald County in Missouri's extreme southwest corner.
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OSEDA Regional Grouping of Counties Many demographic factors vary by region within the state of Missouri. For the convenience of our user community, OSEDA prepares tables using three different regional groupings of counties: Extension, Economic Development and Transportation. For each of these groupings, one table summarizes the indicators by regional total and a second table shows values for each county grouped by region. Users may select the county grouping most helpful for their application and understanding. |
Changes in American Indian Population By Region 1990-2000.
Following in this section, Indian population change data are reported for 1990-2000 for three different sets of regions. The regions include: (1) the eight regions employed by the University of Missouri Extension Service; (2) the 10 districts employed by the Missouri Department of Transportation; and, (3) the 13 regions used by the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
University of Missouri Extension Regions
Table 2 shows the Indian population of each of the eight Extension Regions for both 1990 and 2000. The Table also shows the extent of change in the Indian population in each region during the 1990s. The last two columns show Indians as a percent of the total population of each of the regions in both 1990 and 2000.Among the eight Extension regions the largest Indian population was found in the Southwest (6,967 in 2000 and 5,994 in 1990). About 28 percent of Missouri's total Indian population resided in the Southwest Region in 2000. The next largest concentration was in West Central Region (Kansas City) with a total Indian population of 5,853 in 2000. The East Central Region (St. Louis) had the third largest concentration of American Indians with a population of 4,811 in 2000. Those three regions included 70.3 percent of Missouri's total American Indian population in 2000.
Two of the regions, Northeast and Northwest had very small Indian populations in 2000, with 566 and 867 respectively. Together those two regions included only 5.7 percent of Missouri's 2000 Indian population.
Table 3 reports Indian population and change by county within each of the eight regions.
Missouri Department of Transportation Districts
As shown in Table 4, the American Indian population is rather uniformly distributed among the ten MODOT districts. Only three of the ten had fewer than 1,000 Indian population in 2000. Among the districts the largest Indian population in 2000 was found in the Kansas City District with 5,520 Indian residents (22 percent of Missouri's total Indian population). The next largest concentration of Indian population was in the Southwest (Joplin) District with 4,331 (17.3 percent of state total). The St. Louis District had the third largest Indian population in 2000 with 4,125 (16.4 percent of state total). Although those three Districts together accounted for 55.7 percent of Missouri's total 2000 Indian population, the rate of increase in these districts was modest. While the Indian population in Missouri increased overall by 26.4 percent during the 1990s, the increase in the Kansas City District was only 10.2 percent, in the Joplin District the increase was 7.2 percent, and in St. Louis the increase was 16.7.
Table 5 reports the American Indian population and change by county within each of the ten Districts.
Missouri Department of Economic Development Regions
As shown in Table 6, nine of the 13 DED regions had a 2000 Indian population of greater than 1,000. The three regions with the smallest Indian population in 2000 were Northeast, North Central and Northwest. The other smaller Indian population concentration was Lower East Central -Cape Girardeau. Significantly, however, the Lower East Central region had the second greatest rate of increase of Indian population during the 1990s - increasing from 407 in 1990 to 933 in 2000 - an increase of 129 percent. In 2000, only three DED regions had an Indian population of greater than 4,000, the Kansas City MSA with 5,116, followed by St. Louis MSA with 4,378 and Southwest with 4,160. Together those three regions accounted for 54.4 percent of Missouri's total Indian population in 2000. However, those three regions also experienced relatively small rates of increase during the 1990s. The Kansas City MSA increase was only 6.7 percent; St. Louis MSA was 18.9 percent; and, Southwest was only 6.1 percent. The Indian population decreased by a small number in five of the 13 regions. The West Central region's American Indian population fell to 1,011 - the smallest population among the five, while the largest among the five was the Lake of the Ozarks-Rolla region with 1,477.
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The following links provide detailed tables of American Indian and Aleut Population in Missouri, 1990-2000. They are available in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat(PDF) formats. All Missouri Counties |
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| American Indian and Aleut Population in Missouri, 1990-2000 - By County with State Totals | HTML | |
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American Indian and Aleut Population in Missouri, 1990-2000 - By UM Extension Region |
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| American Indian and Aleut Population in Missouri, 1990-2000 - By County Within UM Extension Region | HTML | |
| DED Regions | ||
| American Indian and Aleut Population in Missouri, 1990-2000 - By DED Region | HTML | |
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American Indian and Aleut Population in Missouri, 1990-2000 - By County Within DED Region |
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| MoDOT Regions | ||
| American Indian and Aleut Population in Missouri, 1990-2000 - By DOT District | HTML | |
| American Indian and Aleut Population in Missouri, 1990-2000 - By County Within DOT District | HTML | |
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