Cities
See also: List of United States cities by population and Cities and metropolitan areas of the United StatesThe United States has dozens of major cities, including 9 of the 66 "global cities" of all types, with 10 in the "alpha" group of global cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, Boston, San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, and Philadelphia. As of 2011, the United States had 51 metropolitan areas with a population of over 1,000,000 people each. (See Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas.)
As of 2011, about 250 million Americans live in or around urban areas. That means more than three-quarters of the U.S. population shares just about three percent of the U.S. land area.
The following table shows the populations of the top ten metropolitan areas, at the time of the 2010 Census.
Leading population centers (see complete list) |
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Rank | Core city (cities) | Metro area population | Metropolitan Statistical Area | Region | New York City Los Angeles Chicago |
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1 | New York City | 19,015,900 | New York–New Jersey–Connecticut–Pennsylvania, NY–NJ–CT–PA MSA | Northeast | |||
2 | Los Angeles | 12,944,801 | Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana, CA MSA | West | |||
3 | Chicago | 9,504,753 | Chicago–Joliet–Naperville, IL–IN–WI MSA | Midwest | |||
4 | Dallas–Fort Worth | 6,526,548 | Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX MSA | South | |||
5 | Houston | 6,086,538 | Houston–The Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA | South | |||
6 | Philadelphia | 5,992,414 | Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington, PA–NJ–DE–MD MSA | Northeast | |||
7 | Washington, D.C. | 5,703,948 | Washington, DC–VA–MD–WV MSA | South | |||
8 | Miami | 5,670,125 | Miami–Fort Lauderdale–Pompano Beach, FL MSA | South | |||
9 | Atlanta | 5,359,205 | Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Marietta, GA MSA | South | |||
10 | Boston | 4,591,112 | Boston–Cambridge–Quincy, MA–NH MSA | Northeast | |||
11 | San Francisco | 4,391,037 | San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont, CA MSA | West | |||
12 | Riverside–San Bernardino | 4,304,997 | Riverside–San Bernandino–Ontario, CA MSA | West | |||
13 | Detroit | 4,285,832 | Detroit–Warren–Livonia, MI MSA | Midwest | |||
14 | Phoenix | 4,263,236 | Phoenix–Mesa–Glendale, AZ MSA | West | |||
15 | Seattle | 3,500,026 | Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA MSA | West | |||
16 | Minneapolis–St. Paul | 3,318,486 | Minneapolis–St. Paul–Bloomington, MN–WI MSA | Midwest | |||
17 | San Diego | 3,140,069 | San Diego–Carlsbad–San Marcos, CA MSA | West | |||
18 | Tampa–St. Petersburg | 2,824,724 | Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater, FL MSA | South | |||
19 | St. Louis | 2,817,355 | St. Louis–St. Charles–Farmington, MO–IL MSA | Midwest | |||
20 | Baltimore | 2,729,110 | Baltimore–Towson, MD MSA | South | |||
based upon 2011 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau |
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of US
Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)