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I know the SoFla Metro Area has quite a few cities with 100,000+. West Palm, Miami, Hialeah, Pompano Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami Gardens, Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Hollywood, and Coral Springs.
I guess I was just bored...This is just for fun...without taking into consideration that many cities' csa/msa populations are much larger of course than just city populations, as well as some cities being larger in area than others...
Estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau as of July 1, 2008
California: (15)
#2. Los Angeles
#9. San Diego
#10. San Jose
#12. San Francisco
#36. Fresno
#37. Sacramento
#38. Long Beach
#44. Oakland
#54. Santa Ana
#56. Anaheim
#58 Bakersfield
#61. Riverside
#63. Stockton
#89. Chula Vista
#98. Irvine Texas: (12)
#4. Houston
#7. San Antonio
#8. Dallas
#15. Austin
#17. Fort Worth
#22. El Paso
#50. Arlington
#64. Corpus Christi
#70. Plano
#86. Laredo
#87. Lubbock
#90. Garland Arizona: (7)
#5. Phoenix
#32. Tucson
#39. Mesa
#74. Glendale
#76. Chandler
#79. Scottsdale
#94. Gilbert Florida: (6)
#13. Jacksonville
#43. Miami
#53. Tampa
#73. St. Petersburg
#82. Orlando
#95. Hialeah Ohio: (5)
#16. Columbus
#41. Cleveland
#57. Cincinnati
#61. Toledo
#97. Akron North Carolina: (5)
#18. Charlotte
#45. Raleigh
#75. Greensboro
#85. Durham
#91. Winston-Salem Nevada: (4)
#28. Las Vegas
#71. Henderson
#92. North Las Vegas
#93. Reno Virginia: (4)
#42. Virginia Beach
#80. Norfolk
#88. Chesapeake
#96. Arlington Colorado: (3)
#24. Denver
#48. Colorado Springs
#59. Aurora New York: (3)
#1. New York
#69. Buffalo
#99. Rochester Kentucky: (2)
#30. Louisville
#65. Lexington Louisiana: (2)
#55. New Orleans
#84. Baton Rouge Minnesota: (2)
#47. Minneapolis
#66. St. Paul Missouri: (2)
#35. Kansas City
#52. St. Louis Nebraska: (2)
#40. Omaha
#72. Lincoln New Jersey: (2)
#68. Newark
#78. Jersey City Oklahoma: (2)
#31. Oklahoma City
#46. Tulsa Pennsylvania: (2)
#5. Philadelphia
#60. Pittsburgh Tennessee: (2)
#19. Memphis
#26. Nashville Wisconsin: (2)
#23. Milwaukee
#81. Madison Alabama: (1)
#83. Birmingham Alaska: (1)
#67. Anchorage District of Columbia: (1) Georgia: (1)
#33. Atlanta Hawaii: (1)
#49. Honolulu Idaho: (1)
#100. Boise Illinois: (1)
#3. Chicago Indiana: (1)
#14. Indianapolis Kansas: (1)
#51. Wichita Maryland: (1)
#20. Baltimore Massachusetts: (1)
#21. Boston Michigan: (1)
#11. Detroit New Mexico: (1)
#34. Albuquerque Oregon: (1)
#29. Portland Washington: (1)
#25. Seattle Arkansas: 0 Connecticut: 0 Delaware: 0 Iowa: 0 Maine: 0 Mississippi: 0 Montana: 0 New Hampshire: 0 North Dakota: 0 Rhode Island: 0 South Carolina: 0 South Dakota: 0 Utah: 0 Vermont: 0 West Virginia: 0 Wyoming: 0
I was surprised to not see Little Rock, Hartford, Des Moines, Jackson, Providence and Salt Lake City not on that list, there all fairly well known.
interesting post.
Some thoughts: NY would have had more back in the day, but NYC consolidated to incorporate Brooklyn, etc.
Arlington, VA is technically not a city, its a county. But for some reason, the census ppl consider it a city.
California has 8 of the top 50 U.S. cities. Texas has 7.
Only one other state has 3, the rest have no more than 2.
But many areas in in other parts of the country have much smaller cities. places like Allentown PA or Reading PA that have very small boundaries yet are larger city areas than many on this list. The larger populations are a function of much larger boundaries. Remember there are 55 million people that live in the NE corrider (in the metropolitan areas) there are many areas that if you grouped them together (and they are cohesive and denser) and gave them larger boundaries would make the list (even be very high). Many counties in the NE are smaller than cities on this list area wise and more densely populated. City sizes in other parts of the country make this comparison basically futile.
Just an example:
Tuscon AZ (#32 on this list): Pop 542K Area 195 sq miles
vs.
Delaware County PA: Pop 562K Area 181 sq miles
Essex County NJ: Pop 772K Area 126 sq miles
Union County NJ: Pop 523K Area 103 sq miles
Hudson County NJ: Pop 598K Area 47 sq miles
Last edited by kidphilly; 06-11-2010 at 06:19 PM..
But many areas in in other parts of the country have much smaller cities. places like Allentown PA or Reading PA that have very small boundaries yets are larger city areas than many on this list. The larger populations are a function of much larger boundaries. Remember there are 55 million people that live in the NE corrider (in the metropolitan areas) there are many areas that is you grouped them together and gave them larger boundaries would make the list. Many counties in the NE are smaller than cities on this list area wise and more densely populated. City sizes in other parts of th country make this comparison basically futile.
Possibly because those are all state capitals - they come with a bit of name recognition built in!
I thought of that as well, we had these drilled in our head back in elementary school!
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