Historical population of metropolitan areas by decade

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

Cool

Edit: It looks like Atlanta should be #9 on your 2020 list if that number is accurate.

And Boston #10.

[cdw1084]

Originally Posted by grega94

after digging around finally found the "metro" equivalent data for 1920 giving us a round 100 year snapshot of change. I decided to go with the larger "City and Adjacent Territory" rather than the smaller metropolitan district, since the definition they used back then was closer to what we consider to be as urban area today, plus there were only 29 listed and I wanted 40. I also added hyphen if the other city was considered a major city at some point in its own right (I may have missed some). Furthermore, I color coded the top 10 cities, as well as marked the cities in red for those that fell off the list, and those in blue that were not on the list in 1920.


*Youngstown is in OH, not PA, let me know if you catch any other mistakes.
1920 Source: https://www2.census.gov/library/publ...84484v1ch1.pdf
1970 Source: https://www.census.gov/library/publi...dec/pcp-2.html

I'm pretty sure the listing shows the city metro pop for 2020, but highlights the 2023 metro pop rankings (current).

[grega94]

Originally Posted by cdw1084

I'm pretty sure the listing shows the city metro pop for 2020, but highlights the 2023 metro pop rankings (current).

Yes that is what happened, I was going off the list on wiki.