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For Houston, I want to see if 25 miles centered on Uptown is more than Downtown. The metro is filling out especially South and North, so the Western dominance isn't gonna stay for too long. The only thing keeping it really is the lack of density outside of the loop and SW Houston.
Playing around with it, the population center is further north of Uptown but it doesn't change the figures that much so its probably best to stick with downtown.
77092 for example gave 5,504,032
77018 gave 5,497,802
77091 gave 5,473,266
When you get to just north of Uptown, the 77055 figure the # is 5,425,767. The center of population for a 25M radius is oddly just south of Acres Homes. But that makes sense. The population doesn't venture far south of the beltway, but continues far north into Montgomery County.
I would think water and "Canada" would hurt Detroit here as well?
That makes sense since the other side of the river is another country.
Comparing these types of cities, and cities with downtowns on coastlines, with inland ones is apples to oranges.
Just a quick snippet of the log jam near the top from 20mi out instead of 25mi:
Chicago 60604
4,629,718
Philadelphia 19102
4,097,282
Houston 77002
4,078,338
Washington 20001
4,066,813
Dallas 75204
3,644,574
Phoenix 85003
3,280,744
Boston 02210
3,119,483
Miami 33133
2,897,914
San Francisco 94102
2,882,937
Atlanta 30303
2,858,998
Detroit 48201
2,650,845
True for sure. A huge amount of land are is lost and go like 20 miles SW of Boston and you’d never guess that you were in a large MSA. The sticks make up like 80% of the MSA. Streetview the little hamlets of Wayland, or Lincoln, Dover, Ipswich Go to New Hampshire and it’s even worse.
The Bay has a lot of natural inihabited land too but it’s a little different. Detroit I think is less impacted and is Canada in these population counts?
True for sure. A huge amount of land are is lost and go like 20 miles SW of Boston and you’d never guess that you were in a large MSA. The sticks make up like 80% of the MSA. Streetview the little hamlets of Wayland, or Lincoln, Dover, Ipswich Go to New Hampshire and it’s even worse.
The Bay has a lot of natural inihabited land too but it’s a little different. Detroit I think is less impacted and is Canada in these population counts?
This seems to a typical pattern of many legacy cities/metros. They are much more dense in their cores but very spread out in their burbs. In many new Sunbelt cities, the cores are less dense but the burbs are often cookie-cutter crowded.
I'm not saying Akron is the largest metro in Ohio by anymeans (it's true metro area is more in the 500k range) but it being inland and directly between Cleveland and Canton gives it a huge boost in measures like this.
Using that site, Akron gets:
25 miles - 1.6 million
35 miles - 2.8 million
40 miles - 3.2 million
At 40 miles, it picks up all of its own metro, then almost all of Cleveland and all of Canton. It also picks up some of the western Youngstown burbs.
At 50 miles, it goes up to 4 million because it then picks up most of Youngstown.
Another one along the same line that I did was Racine. Being between Milwaukee and Chicago, it sees a huge jump, especially if you go to 50.
25 miles - 1.1 million
35 miles - 2.2 million
40 miles - 2.7 million
50 miles- 4.6 million
On the East Coast, Trenton is ridiculous, though not surprising being between NYC and Philly.
25 miles - 3 million
35 miles - 6.5 million
40 miles - 8 million
50 miles - 12.1 million
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