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Here are a list of the largest urban areas in the US. There are two numbers with them. The one on the left is the ranking of the urban area in population in the US and the one on the right is its worldwide ranking. Ive attached the link below. One quick notation is that of all the major urban areas (say those over 2 million), Los Angeles/Orange County had the highest density at 6,300 people per square mile and Atlanta had the lowest at 1,900 people per square mile. I listed all over 2 million below, but have posted the link that includes all over 500k worldwide:
1) New York City/NY/NJ/CT: 20,661,000 - 8
2) Los Angeles: 15,260,000 - 16
3) Chicago/IL/WI/IN: 9,238,000 - 35
4) Dallas/Fort Worth: 6,077,000 - 55
5) San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland: 5,996,000 - 57
6) Miami/Southern FL: 5,817,000 - 59
7) Houston: 5,576,000 - 63
8) Philadelphia: 5,530,000 - 64
9) Atlanta: 4,789,000 - 75
10) Washington DC/VA/MD: 4,775,000 - 76
11) Boston MA/RI/NH - 4,492,000 - 84
12) Phoenix - 4,172,000 - 90
13) Detroit - 3,738,000 - 102
14) Seattle - 3,208,000 - 133
15) San Diego - 3,077,000 - 141
16) Minneapolis/St. Paul - 2,683,000 - 161
17) Tampa/St Petersburg - 2,592,000 - 168
18) Denver: 2,535,000 - 175
19) Baltimore: 2,257,000 - 198
20) St. Louis MO/IL: 2,194,000 - 202
21) Las Vegas: 2,026,000 - 220
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Not by the census bureau. This is demographia's own ranking and criteria.
They didn't pick the numbers out of a hat. They did include San Jose in with San Fran and Oakland which the census does not. San Francisco and San Jose are two separate urban areas according to the 2010 census.
Seems like a good estimate, although I would have expected the SF/Oak/SJ numbers to be higher. I wonder what areas they are excluding. Maybe North Bay? Vacaville, Fairfield area? And I expect that the Walnut Creek and Concord areas to be included with the East Bay.
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Why isn't DC lumped in with Baltimore? As far as interconnectivity, that metro is on par with The Bay Area. It's pretty much contiguous urban development from one metro to the other...
Why isn't DC lumped in with Baltimore? As far as interconnectivity, that metro is on par with The Bay Area. It's pretty much contiguous urban development from one metro to the other...
DC and Baltimore still have separate economies. The San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland generally have an interconnected economy.
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