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I live in the city of Oxnard, California. Population of 210,037. City is 39.21 Square miles. Although as it continues to grow and gobble up farm land that number will change.
Small to large in your opinion of a city size? Ex: Compton is small city for 10 sq mi in Cali yet possibly average for a city in Vermont.
Random thoughts.
Compton is actually larger than the average city in Vermont. Of the 9 cities in Vermont (based on a city type government therefore not including New England Town Government municipalities) the average land area of a city in VT is 8.94 square miles.
California suburbs are fragmented into many small cities. Irvine is a monster of a city for a California suburb. 280,000+ people in 66 square miles, and it's the largest city by land area in Orange County.
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I've looked up the cities where I have lived, all pretty "average":
San Bruno CA 5.49 Sqm, pop. 43,083
Lafayette CA 15.21 Sqm, pop. 26,305
Union City CA 19.22 Sqm, pop. 74,722
Castro Valley Ca 16.92 Sqm, pop. 63,013
Sammamish, WA 24.03 Sqm, pop. 64,674
Pittsburg NH 2.79 people per sq. mile ,,,291 sq. mile, pop.813..;; ave 2 people per fam. So about 1 family per Sq mile,, Growing to 1200 in Summer.
,We live 2 miles from my nearest neighbor.
This is a pretty cool thread topic and it would be interesting to see sub topic info spawned from the base information!
Density of a ciy in rings around the downtown is often much more important than the simple calculation. For instance everyone knows that NYC is our highest density city, but the urban agglomeration extends over a huge area and gets very thin when you are far away from the center.
Los Angeles is most people's idea of a low density city, but actually as you move into the suburbs the density remains fairly high compared to NYC.
High urban density is often associated with either extreme wealth (like present day upper west side manhattan) or extreme poverty. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
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