What is your city's population density? (apartment, living in, land)

[prelude91]

Originally Posted by OyCrumbler

(Chicago might be +12,000 people per square mile for the city as a whole, but there are neighborhoods that are +90,000 per square mile).

The densest Neighborhood in Chicago is the Near North Side ~ 48,000/sq mi.

[prelude91]

My last few neighborhoods I lived in:

Woodley Park/Adams Morgan, Washington DC - 14K/sq mi
Gold Coast, Chicago - 48K/sq mi
Lincoln Park, Chicago - 20k/sq mi
West Village, NYC - 66K/sq. mi
Upper East Side, NYC - 112k/sq mi

[OyCrumbler]

Originally Posted by prelude91

The densest Neighborhood in Chicago is the Near North Side ~ 48,000/sq mi.

Sorry about that, I was looking at the densest census tracts.

[Chicagoland60426]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

^ right. I mean Chicago is 237 square miles and has 12,500 or whatever population density.

You can back 10 square miles for the airports, 10 square miles of the Wolf Lake area on the south side that's undeveloped, huge railroad yards and southside industrial areas and suddenly the average density of developed areas starts changing quickly.

Cities like San Fran and Boston are extremely dense, but you can see how they're helped with the lack of huge industrial areas, airports that are either not in the city limits or are squeezed to within a few square miles, and don't have large tracts of undeveloped land.

Certainly saying those cities aren't dense, but I think that's one of the reasons people focus on urban density or residential density many times over just using the official boundries of cities that might include 50 square miles of farmfields or desert.

The entire O'hare Airport/community area is 32 sq. miles and Chicago has 227 sq miles. Take away the 32 sq miles that is part of Chicago's city limits, then Chicago density is higher than 12,600 ppsm.

According to this, O'hare is considered a neighborhood of Chicago since there is a residential part of O'hare.
O'Hare, Chicago: Information from Answers.com

[Mike1306]

Originally Posted by cityboi757

Considering the fact the fact that Miami beach is only 7 sq. miles, I don't think it's fair to compare that to an actual city. More like a neighborhood.

Miami Beach has a population of around 90,000. That is an awful large neighborhood.

Lauderhill, Lauderdale Lakes, Largo, Margate, Pembroke Pines, Kendall, Hialeah, Hollywood, Fl are all higher than Norfolk.

My neighborhood is 198 people per square mile.

[DailyJournalist]

Originally Posted by Mike Peterson

My neighborhood is 198 people per square mile.

I thought the population of Weeki Wachee was 31?

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[Rachael84]

Originally Posted by DailyJournalist

I thought the population of Weeki Wachee was 31?

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I think that's the lowest population density I've ever seen

[TB Fla]

Originally Posted by DailyJournalist

I thought the population of Weeki Wachee was 31?

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Originally Posted by Rachael84

I think that's the lowest population density I've ever seen

Making fun of the population density of a small town now? Real mature.

[Mike1306]

Originally Posted by DailyJournalist

I thought the population of Weeki Wachee was 31?

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Well a neighborhood is different from a city though, isn't it?

[Mike1306]

Originally Posted by Rachael84

I think that's the lowest population density I've ever seen

Yes, some people like to have some elbow room and not have to hear what their neighbor is doing every second of the day.