2010 UA Stats Global (populations, Boston, NYC, development)

[Infamous Past]

UN released this month [April] stats on new UA populations of global UA's with data collected from as many country governments as possible. No discussion of any cities outside of the US please, dont want thread shut down for that. FYI, US census bureau has different version which may look dissimilar when US census releases UA's next year, this is from UN.

1. NYC- 20,710,000
2. LA- 14,940,000
3. CHI- 9,240,000
4. SF Bay- 5,780,000
5. DFW- 5,745,000
6. MIA- 5,455,000
7. Philly- 5,340,000
8. HOU- 5,045,000
9. BOS- 4,825,000
10. ATL- 4,750,000
11. WDC- 4,575,000
12. PHX- 4,100,000
13. DET- 3,880,000
14. SEA- 3,070,000
15. SD- 2,900,000
16. MIN- 2,685,000
17. Tampa- 2,470,000
18. DEN- 2,370,000

http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by Infamous Past

UN released this month [April] stats on new UA populations of global UA's with data collected from as many country governments as possible. No discussion of any cities outside of the US please, dont want thread shut down for that. FYI, US census bureau has different version which may look dissimilar when US census releases UA's next year, this is from UN.

1. NYC- 20,710,000
2. LA- 14,940,000
3. CHI- 9,240,000
4. SF Bay- 5,780,000
5. DFW- 5,745,000
6. MIA- 5,455,000
7. Philly- 5,340,000
8. HOU- 5,045,000
9. BOS- 4,825,000
10. ATL- 4,750,000
11. WDC- 4,575,000
12. PHX- 4,100,000
13. DET- 3,880,000
14. SEA- 3,070,000
15. SD- 2,900,000
16. MIN- 2,685,000
17. Tampa- 2,470,000
18. DEN- 2,370,000

http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf

Interesting. I can see the rationale behind these numbers. Looks like they combined San Francisco and San Jose, which makes sense from a density standpoint.

Also, Im sure DFW has surpassed us btwn the time they gathered this date and now. LOL.

[Infamous Past]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Interesting. I can see the rationale behind these numbers. Looks like they combined San Francisco and San Jose, which makes sense from a density standpoint.

Also, Im sure DFW has surpassed us btwn the time they gathered this date and now. LOL.

Remarkably peculiar how the UN can manage to view SJ, Oak, SF as one area but the US census bureau cannot. Agreed, DFW was hot on its trails but SF Bay took a big jump from 2000 leaving Boston behind

[kidphilly]

Well not to sound like a broken record - this cuts off continuous urban development to areas like Trenton/Mercer/Hightstown/Reading for Philly which would be another 500-600K all continuous and closely affiliated with Philly - to me the Philly UA is still light by this amount and should be today somewhere closer to 6 million

Though all indications from the Census are that the US Census is going to combine some contiguous areas; NYC and Philly areas being one

Glimpse of What the New Urban Area's (UA) will look like in 2010: New York approaching 30 Million

[kidphilly]

Originally Posted by Infamous Past

Remarkably peculiar how the UN can manage to view SJ, Oak, SF as one area but the US census bureau cannot. Agreed, DFW was hot on its trails but SF Bay took a big jump from 2000 leaving Boston behind

And based on the above link it appears that the Census will follow suit with the 2010 alignment for the Bay and the DMV as well

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by kidphilly

Well not to sound like a broken record - this cuts off continuous urban development to areas like Trenton/Mercer/Hightstown/Reading for Philly which would be another 500-600K all continuous and closely affiliated with Philly - to me the Philly UA is still light by this amount and should be today somewhere closer to 6 million

Though all indications from the Census are that the US Census is going to combine some contiguous areas; NYC and Philly areas being one

Glimpse of What the New Urban Area's (UA) will look like in 2010: New York approaching 30 Million

Wow, looks like Philly is the only one that is not very different from the 2000 US Census out of the top 10. All the rest are 1000K more than the last US one.

I am wondering though if they used census track numbers or census estimates from 2010 which were wildly off base

[west336]

The order looks very accurate, but the numbers seem a bit off....