Minimum population threshold for urbanized area. (Baltimore, Dallas, Atlanta, Detroit)

[Corey the Otter]

What do you think the minimum population threshold for an urbanized area?

It is currently at 50,000.

Should it be higher? Lower? The same?

Please let me know.

[turf3]

Wouldn't it depend on how big the area is?


Brookline MA is about 60,000 people and is intensely urban (6.8 sq. mi.). Van Zandt Co, Tex., is 54,000 or so and definitely not urban (860 sq. mi.)

[supfromthesite]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...10_urban_areas

Here is the list

[North Beach Person]

The Census designates any population area of more than 2500 as an urban cluster.

https://www.census.gov/programs-surv...2C000%20people.

[MrRational]

The 500 persons per square mile threshold as the criterion probably matters more.
Those 2500 people in that cluster (1sq mi x5) c/would be packed as tight as a 2.2 square mile grid.

[MidValleyDad]

Originally Posted by MrRational

The 500 persons per square mile threshold as the criterion probably matters more.
Those 2500 people in that cluster (1sq mi x5) c/would be packed as tight as a 2.2 square mile grid.

500 people per square mile? Since a square mile contains 640 acres that is less than 1 person per acre. That is hardly urban

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by MidValleyDad

500 people per square mile?

I didn't design the criteria but that is what it says. LINK

[PacoMartin]

Using the criteria in the link, these are the results for 2010 (minmum population in parenthesis)

Population %
12.7% NYC | LA | CHI (8,600,000) number 3
31.3% Over million (1,000,000) number 39 including San Juan PR
28.4% Urban Area under million (50,000) number 455 including cities in PR
9.5% Urban cluster (2,500) number 3087
19.3% rural

Million people in Urban Area

1. 18.4 New York--Newark, NY--NJ--CT
2. 12.2 Los Angeles--Long Beach--Anaheim, CA
3. 8.6 Chicago, IL--IN
4. 5.5 Miami, FL
5. 5.4 Philadelphia, PA--NJ--DE--MD
6. 5.1 Dallas--Fort Worth--Arlington, TX
7. 4.9 Houston, TX
8. 4.6 Washington, DC--VA--MD
9. 4.5 Atlanta, GA
10. 4.2 Boston, MA--NH--RI
11. 3.7 Detroit, MI
12. 3.6 Phoenix--Mesa, AZ
13. 3.3 San Francisco--Oakland, CA
14. 3.1 Seattle, WA
15. 3.0 San Diego, CA
16. 2.7 Minneapolis--St. Paul, MN--WI
17. 2.4 Tampa--St. Petersburg, FL
18. 2.4 Denver--Aurora, CO
19. 2.2 Baltimore, MD
20. 2.2 St. Louis, MO--IL
21. 2.1 San Juan, PR
22. 1.9 Riverside--San Bernardino, CA
23. 1.9 Las Vegas--Henderson, NV
24. 1.8 Portland, OR--WA
25. 1.8 Cleveland, OH
26. 1.8 San Antonio, TX
27. 1.7 Pittsburgh, PA
28. 1.7 Sacramento, CA
29. 1.7 San Jose, CA
30. 1.6 Cincinnati, OH--KY--IN
31. 1.5 Kansas City, MO--KS
32. 1.5 Orlando, FL
33. 1.5 Indianapolis, IN
34. 1.4 Virginia Beach, VA
35. 1.4 Milwaukee, WI
36. 1.4 Columbus, OH
37. 1.4 Austin, TX
38. 1.2 Charlotte, NC--SC
39. 1.2 Providence, RI--MA
40. 1.1 Jacksonville, FL
41. 1.1 Memphis, TN--MS--AR
42. 1.0 Salt Lake City--West Valley City, UT