2018 US Urban Area Estimates... (largest, populations, Atlanta, Los Angeles)

[murksiderock]

Minimum 500,000 population. Couldn't find a streamlined list, so sourced via (this is such an excellent data site lol):

http://censusreporter.org/profiles/4...rbanized-area/

Parentheses is % growth from 2010...

1 New York 18,776,233 (+2.32%)
2 Los Angeles 12,616,501 (+3.83)
3 Chicago 8,636,309 (+.33)
4 Miami 6,107,242 (+10.99)
5 Dallas/Fort Worth 5,888,916 (+14.98)
6 Houston 5,704,641 (+15.38)
7 Philadelphia 5,538,175 (+1.78)
8 Atlanta 5,098,403 (+12.91)
9 Washington 5,051,789 (+10.14)
10 Boston 4,475,825 (+7.05)

11 Phoenix 4,142,622 (+14.15)
12 Detroit 3,751,407 (+0.46)
13 San Francisco/Oakland 3,565,427 (+8.66)
14 Seattle 3,513,326 (+14.84)
15 San Diego 3,189,835 (+7.88)
16 Minneapolis/St Paul 2,877,365 (+8.54)
17 Tampa/St Petersburg 2,729,645 (+11.79)
18 Denver 2,710,084 (+14.15)
19 Baltimore 2,278,976 (+3.42)
20 St Louis 2,151,139 (+0.02)

21 Las Vegas 2,148,170 (+13.9)
22 Riverside/San Bernardino 2,120,669 (+9.73)
23 Portland 2,075,505 (+12.2)
24 San Antonio 2,045,263 (+16.33)
25 Sacramento 1,882,246 (+9.2)
26 San Jose 1,805,090 (+8.45)
27 Orlando 1,781,809 (+17.96)
28 Cleveland 1,764,967 (-0.88)
29 Pittsburgh 1,715,050 (-1.08)
30 Cincinnati 1,695,560 (+4.35)

31 Austin 1,666,878 (+22.35)
32 Indianapolis 1,635,163 (+9.93)
33 Kansas City 1,613,452 (+6.19)
34 Columbus 1,543,744 (+12.84)
35 Charlotte 1,497,069 (+19.82)
36 Virginia Beach/Norfolk 1,473,729 (+2.37)
37 Milwaukee 1,389,397 (+0.94)
38 Providence 1,201,090 (+0.85)
39 Jacksonville 1,185,150 (+11.26)
40 Salt Lake City 1,129,243 (+10.58)

41 Nashville 1,082,734 (+11.67)
42 Memphis 1,079,752 (+1.86)
43 Raleigh 1,060,427 (+19.84)
44 Richmond 1,024,455 (+7.44)
45 Louisville 1,015,576 (+4.42)
46 New Orleans 958,638 (+6.55)
47 Bridgeport 946,430 (+2.5)
48 Oklahoma City 935,768 (+8.62)
49 Buffalo 931,219 (-0.05)
50 Hartford 926,581 (+0.19)

51 Tucson 879,363 (+4.29)
52 Honolulu 836,615 (+4.26)
53 El Paso 814,170 (+1.38)
54 McAllen, Tx 808,344 (+10.91)
55 Omaha 791,356 (+9.15)
56 Birmingham 769,661 (+2.69)
57 Albuquerque 754,558 (+1.79)
58 Sarasota, Fla 730,764 (+13.6)
59 Dayton 724,914 (+0.11)
60 Rochester 717,815 (-0.38)

61 Fresno 708,443 (+8.22)
62 Tulsa 697,019 (+6.34)
63 Allentown 687,769 (+3.48)
64 Concord, Ca 664,573 (+7.89)
65 Fort Myers/Cape Coral 649,547 (+22.49)
66 Charleston 645,648 (+17.73)
67 Springfield, Mass 630,686 (+1.51)
68 Grand Rapids 624,662 (+9.6)
69 Colorado Springs 623,102 (+11.39)
70 Ogden, Ut 620,621 (+13.66)

71 Columbia 609, 403 (+10.85)
72 Mission Viejo, Ca 608, 794 (+4.3)
73 Baton Rouge 608,183 (+2.33)
74 Knoxville 601,751 (+7.71)
75 Albany 599,736 (+0.8)
76 Bakersfield 565,956 (+8.01)
77 Akron 563,305 (-1.09)
78 Provo 561,188 (+16.23)
79 New Haven 556, 829 (-1.07)
80 Murrieta, Ca 523,213 (+18.5)

81 Des Moines 506,249 (+12.48)

Lettuce discuss...

[cjoseph]

Are you sure about Buffalo's percentage drop? Seems extreme even for Buffalo.

[murksiderock]

Originally Posted by cjoseph

Are you sure about Buffalo's percentage drop? Seems extreme even for Buffalo.

Edited, I had it wrong!

[Joakim3]

So right about on par with their respective metro growth/decline

[cpomp]

Random question. Can boundaries of urban areas expand each year within the confines of a metro? Based on population growth or shifting.

[Joakim3]

Originally Posted by cpomp

Random question. Can boundaries of urban areas expand each year within the confines of a metro? Based on population growth or shifting.

Yes, but the census tract has to reach a minimum population + density before it can be incorporated into the UA

[Gaylord_Focker]

Miami is the 4th largest metro area?

[Joakim3]

Originally Posted by Gaylord_Focker

Miami is the 4th largest metro area?

Urban Area =/= Metro.

Metro counts the entire county via traffic patterns. Urban Area is calculated by counting connecting census tracts that meet minimum population + density requirnments. Everything from Palm Beach to Miami proper is through and through developed with zero breaks in-between because they have to squish all development between the Atlantic and the Everglades

Outside of LA and SF-Oakland, Miami is probably the most consistently developed metro in the country

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by Gaylord_Focker

Miami is the 4th largest metro area?

Urban area.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by Joakim3

Urban Area =/= Metro.

Metro counts the entire country, urban area is calculated by counting up connecting census tracts that meet minimum populations + densities. Everything from Palm Beach to Miami proper is through and through developed with zero breaks in-between.

Outside of LA and SF-Oakland, Miami is probably the most consistently developed metro in the country

Then why is SF/Oaks urban area so small. It’s like 50% of the MSA. Boston UA is 90% of its MSA. This is a genuine question as I feel Most of the Bsoton MSA isn’t urban at all..it can be quite rural and orlverall is low density. I don’t get it. I’d imagine SF/OAK to be a larger urbanized area than BOS or ATL