What is your city's population density? (condos, park, area)
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Its hard to judge a lot of western cities on their population density per square mile because a lot of the cities/counties have areas in their limits that are not inhabited. For example in the DFW area you have a lot of flood plains or rural farm land in city limits that are not habitated and in Phoenix you have a lot of mountainous and desert areas. Its much better to judge the most densely populated neighborhoods of each city and compare that rather than the city or metro area as a whole. Also some very densely developed areas may have a lot of retail and office space but very little residential mixed in which is the case in a lot of areas where there is more available land.
I use city-data. It's a pretty cool site, and they've got a web forum, too, where you can talk about stuff like this.
Go to the main page and type in your zip code in the search engine. It should give you a pretty detailed profile that includes the population density.
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Originally Posted by R1070
Its hard to judge a lot of western cities on their population density per square mile because a lot of the cities/counties have areas in their limits that are not inhabited. For example in the DFW area you have a lot of flood plains or rural farm land in city limits that are not habitated and in Phoenix you have a lot of mountainous and desert areas. Its much better to judge the most densely populated neighborhoods of each city and compare that rather than the city or metro area as a whole. Also some very densely developed areas may have a lot of retail and office space but very little residential mixed in which is the case in a lot of areas where there is more available land.
Yea, which is why I think looking at census tracts/zipcodes or an agglomeration of them is actually more useful when talking about the density you might actually experience at the ground level. For that, I use city-data! Amazing!
Its hard to judge a lot of western cities on their population density per square mile because a lot of the cities/counties have areas in their limits that are not inhabited. For example in the DFW area you have a lot of flood plains or rural farm land in city limits that are not habitated and in Phoenix you have a lot of mountainous and desert areas. Its much better to judge the most densely populated neighborhoods of each city and compare that rather than the city or metro area as a whole. Also some very densely developed areas may have a lot of retail and office space but very little residential mixed in which is the case in a lot of areas where there is more available land.
The Trinity River Flood Plain run along the western edge of Downtown Dallas.
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