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The only problem I see is that 1-3 million is a big range and is a disparity in importance, and therefore should not be grouped together.
I mean your considering St. Louis, Tampa, Denver, Baltimore in the same level as Louisville, Richmond, Birmingham, Tucson, etc.
Theyre should be like a Midsized A and Midsized B, or
Major= 5+mill
Big= 3+mill
Mid-Major= 2-3mill
Mid-Minor= 1-2mill
Small= less than 1 mill
or
Major
Big
Mid-sized
Minor
Small
Good suggestion. I agree that the medium cities are harder to define, but I don't know if splitting it down the middle is that helpful because you're still grouping Las Vegas and San Jose with Rochester and Tucson.
Major = metro area of more than 5 million
Big city = metro area of more than 3 million.
Midsized = metro area of 1-3 million
Small = metro area of less than 1 million
This is better.
Major = metro area of more than 5 million
Big city = metro area of more than 2 million.
Midsized = metro area of 1-2 million
Small = metro area of less than 1 million
I say a "Big" city has more than 300,000 residents
a "Mid-sized" city has 30,000 to 300,000 residents
and a "small city" has less than 30,000 residents
Although I think there should be a special category for Huge cities with 1 miillion or more people
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Originally Posted by bobsmith
I say a "Big" city has more than 300,000 residents
a "Mid-sized" city has 30,000 to 300,000 residents
and a "small city" has less than 30,000 residents
Although I think there should be a special category for Huge cities with 1 miillion or more people
Lol, meaning most mid sized cities will be suburban cities from all across the country.
For metro areas:
Big is anything over 2 million.
Anything over say 4 million is something else.
Midsized would be from say 750k-2 million.
For Cities:
Big is anything over 350k.
Again, over 1.5 million is something else.
Midsized is 100k-350k.
Small would be from 30k-100k.
Anything under 30k I consider a tiny city or town.
There's a difference between cities/towns (more on the size scale with those 2) and suburbs though.
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