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Originally Posted by CalyKidd
SF I though was the second densest city after all of NYC?  |
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Originally Posted by sukwoo
It is if you only consider "major" cities. Lots of tiny towns with very high density.
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The thing is, those tiny, dense cities (such as Union City NJ), are by and large basically the same as the denser neighborhoods in bigger cities...they just have the distinction of having their own city government and boundaries.
For example San Francisco has neighborhoods the same size as Union City, NJ with equal population densities (about 50,000 per square mile). If you chop it down more, and go into census tracts, SF has some that approach 100,000 people per square mile. These are obviously small sections of the densest neighborhoods however (Chinatown, The Tenderloin, and Lower Nob Hill, aka "the tendernob"). The same goes for many other large cities. So you see it's hard to accurately compare areas that are so vastly different in geographic size.
As for the neighborhood I live in in SF, it has a population density of around 20,000 per square mile, and the city as a whole comes out to about 16,000 per square mile.
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