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Daly City: 13,425
Burlingame: 6,392
South SF: 6,929
San Mateo: 7,551
Mountain View: 5,914
The Bay Area is very dense. However, some of the inner suburbs of Boston are extremely dense too. Here's a few noteworthy surrounding cities and their People per Square Mile Densities:
Some of the older Mill Towns are also pretty dense:
Lawrence: 10,000
Lowell: 7,500
Another thing people often don't take into account is that for 9 months of the year there are around 250,000 college students living in the Boston/Cambridge area. If you take college students into account, the Boston/Cambridge area grows to about 930,000 (I reduced the population by 30,000 in an attempt to compensate for students who are actually from Boston/Cambridge and are attending college. Not sure how accurate my guess is) in 55 square miles. That would bring the density up to around 16,900, much closer to San Francisco levels.
All that said, I actually voted San Francisco as the more urban environment.
all these cities are urban... dc/sf/boston... just different styles... or more of it. plenty of people living next to downtown living urban lifestyles. sf is definitely california, boston is definitely new england. I don't know how you quantify "more urban" .... now if we want to talk better weather, better public transit, better upscale shopping, better chinatowns... we can have an actual comparison.
The Bay Area is very dense. However, some of the inner suburbs of Boston are extremely dense too. Here's a few noteworthy surrounding cities and their People per Square Mile Densities:
Some of the older Mill Towns are also pretty dense:
Lawrence: 10,000
Lowell: 7,500
Another thing people often don't take into account is that for 9 months of the year there are around 250,000 college students living in the Boston/Cambridge area. If you take college students into account, the Boston/Cambridge area grows to about 930,000 (I reduced the population by 30,000 in an attempt to compensate for students who are actually from Boston/Cambridge and are attending college. Not sure how accurate my guess is) in 55 square miles. That would bring the density up to around 16,900, much closer to San Francisco levels.
All that said, I actually voted San Francisco as the more urban environment.
Wow, there are a lot of pretty dense towns over there. Do they really not include college students into the census though? And if so would you know whether or not that is the case here as well? Just curious. I always assumed the students here would be included in rough estimates due to apartment and dorm rentals in the area, but I suppose there is no way to really track all the many rooms and in-laws that are rented out to students and whoever else when that's done without going through legal steps. I guess its similar to illegals who are off the grid. Over here at least, its more likely there is a greater number of illegals than there are college students. I wonder what the real numbers are.
Either way, it sounds like both cities and immediate surrounding areas are pretty comparable in population and density.
Which is more urban? Boston or San Francisco? It all started out by a poll between SF and DC. Then it turned to a poll between Boston and DC. The poll between SF and DC was kind of close with SF in the lead, but the poll between Boston and DC was a blowout with Boston in the lead. So with that said, which city is more urban? Boston or San Francisco?
San Francisco has a much higher population density per square mile; relative to Boston. Both are relatively high by American standards though.
I like Boston better, but I can't be bias and say Boston is more urban because San Francisco is one of the denser cities in America which is key to being very urbanized.
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