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Originally Posted by costello_musicman
It's probably the density of the area overall. I was curious, so I crunched some numbers... Denver's MSA covers more area than Cleveland's CSA.
Please feel free to check my math, but basically;
Cleveland:
MSA = 2004.41 sq mi (pop 2.1 million)
CSA = 5904.58 sq mi (pop 3.5 million)
Denver:
MSA = 7591.79 sq mi (pop 2.6 million)
CSA = 12349.27 sq mi (pop 3.2 million)
And also like was said above, Cleveland infrastructure was built for a much larger population (train system, freeways, buildings, wide blvd's, museums, etc)
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If you are going to compare area and population, I think urban areas are the better way to compare. MSA and CSA areas are defined by county boundaries which are arbitrary, making useful comparisons difficult. With urban areas, you can directly compare the amount of continuously developed land and the population held in that area.
Denver 2010 population 2,374,203 in 668 square miles
Cleveland 2010 population 1,780,673 in 772 square miles
List of United States urban areas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Using urban area, Denver has more people in a smaller area.
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