Whats your cities population in a 100 Mile Radius? (house, rail)

[Vegabern]

I'm not within 580 miles of any city on the original list. I know full well that my radius is well under 1 million. I'm going to guess under 150,000.

[Mantronix4204]

Wilmington, DE, I think, is an interesting example for this discussion.

For 2012, Wilmington's city-proper population is 71,292 (Wikipedia).

According to SearchBug, using Wilmington's primary zip code of 19801, we get -

1 mile radius = 16,286
5 mile radius = 165,308 (already doubles the city's population)
10 mile radius = 375,397
25 mile radius = 2,293,164 (this is Philadelphia)
50 mile radius = 7,110,500 (Baltimore is approx. 65 miles)
100 mile radius = 20,365,040 (Manhattan is approx. 108 miles)
200 mile radius = 47,183,670

And given Wilmington's location, this analysis includes the Delaware Bay, Atlantic Ocean, and the Chesapeake Bay.

[chessgeek]

Originally Posted by northstar22

No Minneapolis/St. Paul?

See #17 on the list.

[chessgeek]

I could have sworn the Phoenix metro area had at least 4 million people, but on the 100 mile radius list it is just 3.68 million.

[pwduvall]

Originally Posted by TommyCarcetti

Searched 100 mile radius for Baltimore using 21202 zip code (downtown). Baltimore's population for a 100 mile radius is 15,393,860.

If you run the search from the center of the Baltimore city (21218) you get 17,256,120. If you search from the center of Towson (21204) you get 17,618,400. The numbers increase as you you go north because Philadelphia is just over 100 miles from downtown Baltimore.

[mjlo]

Originally Posted by chessgeek

I could have sworn the Phoenix metro area had at least 4 million people, but on the 100 mile radius list it is just 3.68 million.

That's not entirely inconceivable, remember that metro areas are based on county borders and not urbanized areas. PHX metro is Maricopa county, and Pinal County. Maricopa county alone covers an area greater than that of New Jersey. The two of them together rival New England in size. The southern edge of Pinal County is 20mins from the CBD of Tucson which is 90+ mins from PHX. Based on how they are calculated and the size of those counties you can live 20mins from Tucson, and you would still be considered part of Metro PHX. It's why I've never agreed with using metro areas as a good tool of measurement for city size. And remember too that 40miles outside of Downtown Phoenix you're again in uninhabited desert.

[Kar54]

Wow, interesting.

Colorado Springs: 3,867,416

[Newsboy]

Originally Posted by Mantronix4204

Wilmington, DE, I think, is an interesting example for this discussion.

For 2012, Wilmington's city-proper population is 71,292 (Wikipedia).

According to SearchBug, using Wilmington's primary zip code of 19801, we get -

1 mile radius = 16,286
5 mile radius = 165,308 (already doubles the city's population)
10 mile radius = 375,397
25 mile radius = 2,293,164 (this is Philadelphia)
50 mile radius = 7,110,500 (Baltimore is approx. 65 miles)
100 mile radius = 20,365,040 (Manhattan is approx. 108 miles)
200 mile radius = 47,183,670

And given Wilmington's location, this analysis includes the Delaware Bay, Atlantic Ocean, and the Chesapeake Bay.

How does searchbug work? Is it a pay site? I looked at it and couldn't see where / how you do the radius population thing. I've got several locales I want to try that out on.

[WanderingImport]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

How does searchbug work? Is it a pay site? I looked at it and couldn't see where / how you do the radius population thing. I've got several locales I want to try that out on.

I'm very interested to know this too.

[MPC]

Originally Posted by WanderingImport

I'm very interested to know this too.

There are pay sites but I use freedemographics com. I found another one that allowed more than 100 miles in radius but can't remember it. There is also one that lets you draw a polygon and shows all population within it.