DALLAS the Largest Metro in the South "Where's the respect City-Data"

[Scarface713]

Originally Posted by DeaconJ

Those are Census Bureau figures.

So city limits sizes are vastly different, but metro sizes aren't? Hmmmm...that doesn't make any sense. They can both be vastly different. But...why don't you post the density figures for each metro?

Metro wise is even worse because Texas has large counties. You have to look at urban areas.

[dv1033]

Originally Posted by LAnative10

Let see if I can expand this for us:

DFW Metroplex:
Main Urban core: Dallas and Tarrrant Counties
Square milage of the 2 counties: 1,743 Square miles of land
Total population of 2 counties: 4,083,946 - 2007 estimate

Metro Houston:
Main Urban core: Harris County
Square milage of Harris County: 1,729 square miles of land
Total Population of Harris county: 3,984,349 - 2008 estimate

Metro Atlanta:
Main Urban core: Fulton, Gwinnett, Dekalb, Clayton, and Cobb counties
Square milage of the 5 counties: 1,620 square miles of land
Total population of the 5 counties: 3,529,842 - 2008 estimate

I think given this data, the difference between the them is splitting hairs.

Appreciate the work. The stats I was looking for, and couldn't find, are similar to what you did; it is called contiguous urbanized area. It separates more rural areas that get counted from the rest of the metro.

[LAnative10]

Originally Posted by dv1033

Appreciate the work. The stats I was looking for, and couldn't find, are similar to what you did; it is called contiguous urbanized area. It separates more rural areas that get counted from the rest of the metro.

The funny thing is that if you throw in Collin and Denton counties for the Metroplex projection, you get about 3,300 square miles of land and all but about 900,000 of the DFW Metroplex MSA population. People make such a big deal about these MSA's with vast amounts of land in the South, but what they dont realize is that the vast majority of the land is either farms, undeveloped, small towns, or sparsely populated.

[dv1033]

Originally Posted by LAnative10

The funny thing is that if you throw in Collin and Denton counties for the Metroplex projection, you get about 3,300 square miles of land and all but about 900,000 of the DFW Metroplex MSA population. People make such a big deal about these MSA's with vast amounts of land in the South, but what they dont realize is that the vast majority of the land is either farms, undeveloped, small towns, or sparsely populated.

Exactly, Houston, DFW, and ATL metros abruptly end and the population densities really thin out. The densities of the metro's become around 650 ppl/mile when you take into account all the counties (which are rather large in size).