top 10 City Populations in 2030 (housing, suburb, land)

[btownboss4]

I know some of you think City limits are irrelevant, but the Goverment allocates Resorces by CITY LIMITS population so it is relevant.
My top 10 would Be
1) New York 8.9 million
2) Los Angeles 4.7 Million
3) Houston- 3.4 Million
4) Chicago- 3.2 Million
5) Phoenix- 1.7 Million
6) Philly- 1.6 Million
7)San Antonio- 1.5 Million
8) San Deigo- 1.45 Million
9) Dallas- 1.3 Million
10) San Jose- 1.06 Million

* Jacksonville would be on SJ tail at 1.01 Million
Last 2 using Extrapulations cause of closeness.

[btownboss4]

If Current Trends Continue Detroit will Fall to 21 even if its population stays almost steady at the 700,000 Mark or slightly above (which it most likely won't) It would Be surpassed by Seattle, Louisville, and El Paso

[Slyman11]

There are to many prediction threads, I realize that it may be fun to think of the world years from now but try to imagine todays technology in 1985 and ask yourself if you ever envisioned a world like the one today?

Your guess is as good as mine TBH

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

I know some of you think City limits are irrelevant, but the Goverment allocates Resorces by CITY LIMITS population so it is relevant.
My top 10 would Be
1) New York 8.9 million
2) Los Angeles 4.7 Million
3) Houston- 3.4 Million
4) Chicago- 3.2 Million
5) Phoenix- 1.7 Million
6) Philly- 1.6 Million
7)San Antonio- 1.5 Million
8) San Deigo- 1.45 Million
9) Dallas- 1.3 Million
10) San Jose- 1.06 Million

* Jacksonville would be on SJ tail at 1.01 Million
Last 2 using Extrapulations cause of closeness.

Given that Jacksonville has almost 800 square miles of land on which to grow its population, I would expect it to reach beyond 1.01 million in the next 18 years. I'd put it at tenth above San Jose. San Jose is pretty built out and has to resort to infill high density housing to grow its municipal population. While I prefer that sort of growth to forever sprawl, the fact remains that Jax has hundreds of square miles of available land on which to grow.

[waronxmas]

Spoiler Alert!

NYC will retain the number one spot. Spots 2 through 10 will be rounded out by cities with large borders.

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

Spoiler Alert!

NYC will retain the number one spot. Spots 2 through 10 will be rounded out by cities with large borders.

To be fair, even NYC has hundreds of square miles of land.
Philadelphia is the smallest land area of the bunch at about 135 square miles.

Some interesting physical size relationships among our largest cities and some others:

NYC is almost identical in land size to Augusta, GA.

Chicago and Tucson are about the same size.

Oklahoma City is slightly larger than Houston.

Philadelphia is about the same size as Las Vegas, Atlanta, Portland and the Phoenix suburb of Mesa.

San Diego is exactly the same size as Louisville, KY.

[sonofaque86]

IF Charlotte's tremendous growth continues at around 35% (it's been like this for 20 years) for 20 more years it'll be at 1.33 million by 2030. The city limits are already huge and can support such growth

[feufoma]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

Spoiler Alert!

NYC will retain the number one spot. Spots 2 through 10 will be rounded out by cities with large borders.

And NYC's boundaries aren't large? Think again.

[iNviNciBL3]

Global Warming will cause a population boom in the Twin Cities by then

[kidphilly]

Originally Posted by feufoma

And NYC's boundaries aren't large? Think again.

well when compared to Houston or Jax they are. Especially considering it has a density of 30K+ within the area. City boundaries are mostly arbitrary and difficult to compare