Most urban neighborhoods in CA outside of San Francisco??

[ElDiabloJoe]

It sounds like one of you is comparing San Francisco CITY to Long Beach, the other is comparing San Francisco CITY AND COUNTY to Long Beach.

Long Beach is huge, and it is one of nearly 88 incorporated cities in Los Angeles Co. There are MANY unincorporated cities in Los Angeles County also (Northridge, Sherman Oaks, Hollywood, Van Nuys, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, etc.). Again, Long Beach is just one of many, and it is large.

[tion91]

Originally Posted by Jay100

What kind of questions is that?

Like downtown LA? I believe LA's central core has more population than all of San Francisco. LA County has 11,000,000 people. NYC has just 8mil. SF is just slightly larger than Long Beach.

That doesnt answer my question AT ALL lol. Not to mention LA could have 49 million people and it wouldnt change the fact that no neighborhood in LA is as dense as SF or SF neighborhoods. Manhattan has 1.6 mil compared to houston 2.4 mil but total population means nothing on urbanity or density

[Vic Romano]

Originally Posted by tion91

That doesnt answer my question AT ALL lol. Not to mention LA could have 49 million people and it wouldnt change the fact that no neighborhood in LA is as dense as SF or SF neighborhoods. Manhattan has 1.6 mil compared to houston 2.4 mil but total population means nothing on urbanity or density

What makes you think there is another city outside of LA that is as dense as SF or even close? Think about that.

[sav858]

Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe

It sounds like one of you is comparing San Francisco CITY to Long Beach, the other is comparing San Francisco CITY AND COUNTY to Long Beach.

Long Beach is huge, and it is one of nearly 88 incorporated cities in Los Angeles Co. There are MANY unincorporated cities in Los Angeles County also (Northridge, Sherman Oaks, Hollywood, Van Nuys, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, etc.). Again, Long Beach is just one of many, and it is large.

What difference does that make? The City and County of SF are the same thing.

[04kL4nD]

Maybe they meant comparing SF city/county to one densely populated LA city (LB specifically) AND LACO?

IDK. Either way, it should be fairly obvious that SF is the most densely populated city on the west coast BY FAR, and that only LA has neighborhoods/cities that come remotely close. I haven't looked up all the stats myself for each of California's most populous cities, but I'd say there's probably a half dozen or so places in LA which have a population density over 10k per person/SQ mile. Maybe a few parts of Oakland/SD/Sac get above 10k+, but IDK. What's particularly interesting is how dense Chinatown and North Beach are (30k+ per square mile) when compared to the rest of SF (18k+ average).

I'm super curious if anything in LA approaches the same density as the densest parts of SF, but I highly doubt it.

[tion91]

Originally Posted by Jay100

I didn't grow up on fantasy island, that's for sure. Tomato, tomahhhto, big deal. Bottom line is, SF's population is closer to Long Beach than nyc or LA. An apt comparison has been made.

SF is way more dense than anything in LA, large parks and all

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by tion91

What neighborhood outside of SF is most urban in CA. Sorry SF, I didnt include you guys because you guys have an urbanity that's only topped by NYC so it's pointless to include

OP, the wording of your question is causing confusion. What do you mean by "neighborhood"? SF isn't a "neighborhood", it's a city.

SF is in a unique situation geographically, being on a peninsula, so growth-wise, it doesn't have anywhere to go but up. That results in high density. So the only other comparable place is Manhattan, limited to an island.

IDK; Oakland is growing in density. Maybe there's a neighborhood in Oakland that's particularly high-density?

[Pro1000]

Some of these LA streets and neighborhoods in the 'hood' are dense as hell. I take drives around the city quite often more so especially since Covid came- just to get out of the house. I drove down Central Avenue the other day to check out the old Jazz music district, which is long gone of course, but the area has NY levels of density to it. I know most people don't want to drive through these areas but the whole South Central LA- from Watts all the way up to DTLA is packed to the gills density wise.