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==Demographics==

An estimate in 1875: White: 75,000; Native and Coloured: 25,000.<ref name="ofssketch10"/> The first census, carried out in March 1880, reported 61,022 Europeans and 72,496 Black natives, total 133,518 inhabitants, out of which 70,150 were men.<ref>{{cite web |title=Almanach de Gotha 1887 |year=1887 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SMFp2sW-df4C |language=fr}}</ref> 'Europeans' made up 45.7% of the population.<ref name="sadomesday">{{cite journal|last1=Christopher|first1=Anthony J.|title=A South African Domesday Book: the first Union census of 1911|journal=South African Geographical Journal|date=June 2010|volume=92|issue=1|pages=22–34|doi=10.1080/03736245.2010.483882|bibcode=2010SAfGJ..92...22C |s2cid=128485963}}</ref> Bloemfontein, the capital, had 2,567 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite web|title=The first census in the Orange Free State is held|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/first-census-orange-free-state-held%C3%82%C2%A0%C3%82%C2%A0-bloemfontein-has-2-567-inhabitants|website=South Africa History|access-date=29 January 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130092708/http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/first-census-orange-free-state-held%C3%82%C2%A0%C3%82%C2%A0-bloemfontein-has-2-567-inhabitants|archive-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> The 1890 census, which was reportedly not very accurate, found a population of 207,503.<ref>{{cite book|title=Orange Free State Republic, South Africa|date=1893|publisher=Rand, McNally & Co., Printers|page=5|url=https://archive.org/stream/orangefreestater00unse#page/n6/mode/1up|access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref>

In 1904 the colonial census was taken. The population was 387,315, of whom 225,101 (58.11%) were blacks, 142,679 (36.84%) were whites, 19,282 (4.98%) were coloureds and 253 (0.07%) were Indians. The largest cities were Bloemfontein (33,883) (whites – 15,501 or 45.74%), Harrismith (8,300) (whites – 4,817 or 58.03%), Kroonstad (7,191) (whites – 3,708 or 51.56%).{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

In 1911 population was 528,174, of whom 325,824 (61.68%) were blacks, 175,189 (33.16%) were whites, 26,554 (5.02%) were coloureds and 607 (0.11%) were Indians. The capital, Bloemfontein, had a population of 26,925.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}