Jackson crime numbers down for 2015 (Columbia, Golden: stadium, metro area, area)

[madison2013]

Huntsville, AL has 188k
Chattanooga, TN 173k
Sioux Falls, SD 168k


Big big cities there lol

[sammyreynolds1977]

To me a big city has at least 500,000 people.

[golden eagles fan]

Originally Posted by sammyreynolds1977

To me a big city has at least 500,000 people.

Atlanta has less than 500K, but everyone thinks of it as a big city. Miami also has less than 500K, and so do cities like St. Louis and Cleveland, which used to be over 500K. I look at the surrounding metros as a whole.

[sammyreynolds1977]

Originally Posted by golden eagles fan

Atlanta has less than 500K, but everyone thinks of it as a big city. Miami also has less than 500K, and so do cities like St. Louis and Cleveland, which used to be over 500K. I look at the surrounding metros as a whole.

I thought all of those cities had more than 500k.

[golden eagles fan]

Originally Posted by sammyreynolds1977

I thought all of those cities had more than 500k.

Atlanta is somewhere in the 400K range. Cleveland is less than 400K and St. Louis is nearer to 300K now. The two latter cities used to be much larger. Columbus has surged past Cleveland to be the biggest city in Ohio, Kansas City has done the same to St. Louis for Missouri.

[Sharif662]

I'd rather day it's major simply because their isn't numerous cities as populated as the top 20 in the country for various economic factors and etc. Also I'm including square miles too. Your city's square miles is the reflection of size not density (population).Ex: A city like Compton may seem large due to 94,000+ residents but it's 10x smaller than Jackson, MS.

Think about sq miles and Jackson is quite bigger than it looks.

[Neshomamench]

Originally Posted by Sharif662

I'd rather day it's major simply because their isn't numerous cities as populated as the top 20 in the country for various economic factors and etc. Also I'm including square miles too. Your city's square miles is the reflection of size not density (population).Ex: A city like Compton may seem large due to 94,000+ residents but it's 10x smaller than Jackson, MS.

Think about sq miles and Jackson is quite bigger than it looks.

Not a really powerful argument. You cant cherry pick odd data points to make a point.

Jackson is the 143 largest city in the US. Globally it would be in the thousands. It is the 90th in terms of area, which in light of its peak population, is only slightly large for it size, but normal for a southern city which tend to have a larger area.

Jackson is not a large city by any measure. The Jackson metro area is not large either.

As for "economic" largeness, Jackson does not make any of the available lists a quick googling shows that show the GDP of the top 50 cities. I would be willing to bet, Jackson, as city 143, has a GDP rank higher than 143, thus making it economically SMALLER than its population. That is a bad thing.

[sammyreynolds1977]

To me 100k-200k is a small city, 200k-500k is a mid sized city. Anything over that is large city. To me New Orleans isn't even a large city. It's a nice mid sized city.

[golden eagles fan]

Originally Posted by Sharif662

I'd rather day it's major simply because their isn't numerous cities as populated as the top 20 in the country for various economic factors and etc. Also I'm including square miles too. Your city's square miles is the reflection of size not density (population).Ex: A city like Compton may seem large due to 94,000+ residents but it's 10x smaller than Jackson, MS.

Think about sq miles and Jackson is quite bigger than it looks.

There are a lot of big cities that cover a smaller area than Jackson: Miami, St. Louis, Washington, Baltimore and Boston all have less than 100 square miles. Chew on this: San Francisco, a city of over 850K, only has 47 square miles of land. Conversely, Sitka, Alaska, covers more than 2800 square miles over land (more than any other U.S. city), but has only 10,000 people. Having a large land mass doesn't mean larger population or being a major city.

[Sharif662]

@ Neshomamench & @ GoldenEagle

Your misunderstanding my opinion of a major city. I already stated that due to economy and other factor is what separate Jackson from the other larger 142 indeed and not was I ranking it on a global scale. I'm saying that cities over 100k+ is fairly common nationwide but in Mississippi case (few others too) there's only 1 major city with 100K in our state.

The minimum standard to be considered a city is 2.5K and average population in America is 6.2K, and adding sq mi I see it being a "large city". I once lived in Nashville and that's obviously far bigger than Jackson in terms of populous & sq mi. I'm not trying to cherry pick, but isn't square miles that reflects a city's size and populous? I already knew about that Alaskan city and the other 2 makes the top 3 largest cities by "size" in Alaska, In the mainlands it's Jacksonville Florida. Take for example Manhattan if it was its own city it would be 1.2 Million , which is huge but it's actual size is 25 sq miles.

Therefore the larger the square miles the more driving your doing and smaller the less, add the traffic of varies population and your stuck in traffic. LoL.

Jackson is 143rd in population but 90 in size. TOGETHER it's a major city in Mississippi and fairly large city in the states. That's my observation.