City Population Estimates (subdivisions, ordinances, suburb)

[the topper]

Confirms what I've been saying all along: San Jose is urban in its core and suburban in its outskirts.

[The_General]

Originally Posted by the topper

Confirms what I've been saying all along: San Jose is urban in its core and suburban in its outskirts.

I don't think that makes San Jose an outlier.



You know what other cities are dense at the core and get suburban? All of them.

[jessemh431]

Originally Posted by The_General

I don't think that makes San Jose an outlier.



You know what other cities are dense at the core and get suburban? All of them.

Except for the fact that many cities are much more urban in their core and aren't so heavily suburban.

[lammius]

Originally Posted by Spade

I don't think there are any cities in the US that are 100% urban.

Large cities, maybe. Plenty of smaller cities are 100% urban:
Union City
Hoboken
West New York
etc.

[Clayton white guy]

What County is "West New York" in? Westchester? Is it near Yonkers?

[lammius]

Originally Posted by Clayton white guy

What County is "West New York" in? Westchester? Is it near Yonkers?

Hudson County, NJ.
In Westchester County, Mount Vernon might be 100% urban. I don’t know that city well enough to be sure of that, though.

[jbcmh81]

Originally Posted by BPt111

Mid 2015

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...erican-cities/

Urban density: Nearly half of America's biggest cities look like giant suburbs.

So they just asked people in what kind of environment they thought they lived in and then sorta applied that to zip codes? Meh.

[the topper]

Originally Posted by The_General

I don't think that makes San Jose an outlier.



You know what other cities are dense at the core and get suburban? All of them.

2/3 of San Jose is urban with an exciting downtown and cool neighborhoods. Not many cities are like that: real city!

[manitopiaaa]

Originally Posted by rnc2mbfl

As someone who splits time between Miami and Raleigh, and as a demographics geek, I watch the annual estimates quite closely. In doing so, I am also pretty familiar with the cities that surround Miami and Raleigh in the estimates. FWIW, Raleigh and Miami are right next to each other in the municipal rankings. This means that I have been looking at cities like Virginia Beach, Colorado Springs, Long Beach, and Omaha. Omaha in particular has had me scratching my head all decade because their population growth has been bouncing around all over the place, and I can't figure out why. Does anyone know what's going on there? The 2010 Census put its population around 409K people. A 2016 adjustment to that 2010 Census put the city at 432K, and then a 2017 adjustment put it higher at 449K. Then, in 2016, the Census estimated the city's population to be 447K: lower than the 2017 adjustment of the 2010 Census. Now, all of a sudden, the 2017 estimate for Omaha jumps to 467K, WTH? There's no way that city grew 20,000 people unless it annexed a bunch of land, but I can't find anything out about it online.
Is Omaha fighting/petitioning the Census? Is the city annexing land? What's going on here? Does anyone know?

Annexing land. Omaha annexes land like people change underwear: https://omahaintercept.com/posts/why...loves-annexing

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by manitopiaaa

Annexing land. Omaha annexes land like people change underwear: https://omahaintercept.com/posts/why...loves-annexing

Thanks for the explanation. Rep point for you!
Do you know how big the land area is now for Omaha?