U.S. Census Office, Proportion of Urban to Total Population, by States and Territories, at Each Census (1903)

This page from the Statistical Atlas, 1900, published in 1903 under the direction of Henry Gannett, includes 38 bar graphs showing the percentage of the urban population in each state or territory at each Census from 1790 to 1900. With only a few exceptions, states' urban populations as a proportion of their whole populations increased consistently throughout the 19th century. Some of these increases were quite substantial. For example, in Rhode Island, the urban population increased from 13.1% to 81.2% between 1810 and 1900. In Massachussetts, the urban population increased from just over 5% in 1790 to over 75% in 1900. By the end of the 19th century, over 50% of people from Rhode Island, Massachussetts, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut lived in cities. And even in states like Indiana, Kentucky, and Virginia, the proportion of the urban population more than tripled between 1850 and 1900. These numbers capture the demographic shift occurring throughout the second half of the nineteenth century due to migration, urbanization, and industrialization.