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besides san diego, cuz God know's everyone in texas is going to say san diego (okay okay, maybe only sweetclimber), what's the most "least urban major city" in the united states?
i'd have to say houston because it covers an area of 10,000 square feet with only 6,000,000 people and is a very flat zone free metro region -- the one of the world's largest low density metro regions of its size and class!
let the opinions fly!
Actually, Phoenix feels the least urban followed by Vegas, but San Diego isn't exactly that urban either!
Wow....I knew we had immigrants piling into little bitty apartments but jeez...
lol, oops! i didn't realize i said square feet, but with all this talk about the mortgage crisis, i'm stuck on the size of homes and not metro areas apparently!
Population Density for U.S. Cities of 500K or Higher
New York - 26,401 residents per square mile
Los Angeles - 7,876
Chicago - 12,749
Houston - 3,372
Philadelphia - 11,233
Phoenix - 2,782
San Diego - 3,772
Dallas - 3,470
San Antonio - 2,808
Detroit - 6,885
San Jose - 5,118
Indianapolis - 2,163
San Francisco - 16,633
Jacksonville - 971
Columbus - 3,383
Austin - 2,610
Baltimore - 8,058
Memphis - 2,327
Milwaukee - 6,214
Boston - 12,165
Washington - 9,316
El Paso - 2,263
Seattle - 6,717
Denver - 3,617
Nashville - 1,152
Charlotte - 2,232
Fort Worth - 1,828
Portland - 3,939 Oklahoma City - 834
That list of densities is shocking! I had no idea some of those cities had such low population densities! The whole state of NJ (rural, urban, pine barrens and all) has a density equal to the city of Nashville. Surprising. I'm also surprised to see Baltimore at 8,000 ppsm. I expected higher.
That list of densities is shocking! I had no idea some of those cities had such low population densities! The whole state of NJ (rural, urban, pine barrens and all) has a density equal to the city of Nashville. Surprising. I'm also surprised to see Baltimore at 8,000 ppsm. I expected higher.
many of the big southern cities (Jacksonville, Louisville, Nashville) are actually city-county mergers. So they don't reflect true 'urban' boundaries.
Albuquerque(pop.504,949)
land area-180 square miles
2737 people per square mile
Des Moines(pop.193,886)
land area-75 square miles
2554 people per square mile
Omaha(pop.419,545)
land area-115 square miles
3582 people per square mile
Honolulu(pop.377,357)
land area-85 square miles
4398 people per square mile
not as major as yall think OKC is but at least they have much more density, and I dont think of OKC as a major city in the first place, its just another city that happened to swallow up a whole bunch of land to look bigger.
That list of densities is shocking! I had no idea some of those cities had such low population densities! The whole state of NJ (rural, urban, pine barrens and all) has a density equal to the city of Nashville. Surprising. I'm also surprised to see Baltimore at 8,000 ppsm. I expected higher.
Actually, that maybe is because Baltimore losing population over the past few decades. I believe the population is just over 600,000. I'm sure it was well over that number 30 years ago.
Actually, that maybe is because Baltimore losing population over the past few decades. I believe the population is just over 600,000. I'm sure it was well over that number 30 years ago.
Baltimore's peak population density was at 10,300 persons/mi^2 about 60 years ago.
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because it covers an area of 10,000 square feet with only 6,000,000 people and is a very flat zone free metro region -- the one of the world's largest low density metro regions of its size and class!
Population Density for U.S. Cities of 500K or Higher
