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    [OC] US-Städte nach Bevölkerung


    Grafik von mir, erstellt in Excel. Quelldatensatz hier: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-metro-and-micro-statistical-areas.html

    Ich dachte, es wäre interessant, die Bevölkerung der Metropolregionen von US-Städten zu vergleichen und zu versuchen, sie zu gruppieren "Ebenen" (groß, mittel, klein usw.). Die Leute reden oft davon, in einem zu leben "klein" oder "groß" Stadt.

    Für jede Bevölkerungsstufe habe ich einfach den Bevölkerungsschwellenwert durch 2 geteilt, beginnend mit 12 Millionen.

    Von TA-MajestyPalm

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    1. TA-MajestyPalm on

      Graphic by me, created in excel. Source dataset here: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-metro-and-micro-statistical-areas.html

      I thought it would be interesting to compare metro area populations of US cities, and try and group them into „Tiers“ (large, medium, small etc). People often talk about living in a „small“ or „large“ city.

      For each population tier I simply divided the population threshold by 2, starting from 12 million. Obviously the cutoff points are subjective. The bars are scaled to population.

    2. off_by_two on

      I think it’s funny that Providence, RI has over 500k more people than the state of Rhode Island. The ‚metro area‘ calulation might be a little over tuned lol

    4. platinum92 on

      lmao so we’re just redefining „small“ and „medium“ cities now? Small is generally anything over 5-10k (depending on source) and over 100k is usually medium

      Maybe using „metros“ instead of cities would work better.

    5. sics2014 on

      Interesting. My city has about 160k and I always said I live in a small city.

      Apparently the metro area is about 450k and still doesn’t make the list.

    7. DWS223 on

      Orlando, Lakeland, and Tampa all showing up here is fascinating. Increasingly this is just a single huge urban area stretching from coast-to-coast in central
      Florida.

    8. original_name26 on

      Atlanta being considered bigger than SF requires some interesting definitions

    11. ossetepolv on

      It continues to blow my mind that anyone uses MSAs for anything other than mocking the federal government’s statisticians.

    12. nomadality on

      Virginia Beach is about 450k. The Hampton Roads metro area has the 1.8 million that is mentioned.

    13. Late_Huckleberry850 on

      This is a much better metric for the ‚city‘ feel than raw city population. Very cool!

    14. studio_sally on

      Love this graphic.

      I would say that some ‚Large‘ cities like Boston and SF and Seattle, feel more like ‚Very Large‘ cities. Tampa probably feels more like a ‚Medium‘ city as well.

      A lot of people are pointing out the weirdness of things like SF and San Jose being separate metro areas (or LA and Riverside), but the Census does have Combined Statistical Areas (CSAs) for those ‚larger‘ definitions. The issue with using CSAs instead is they are *extremely* broad in some cases and would just piss people off even more – things like NYC including Trenton, Boston including Providence, Portland including Salem, etc. There is no happy medium unfortunately, at least one thats officially defined and measured.

    15. seanpuppy on

      Claiming LA is a higher tier city than Chicago is fighting words. The LA metro area is ~3x bigger than Chicago’s metro area with only 25% more people.

    19. Kind_Afternoon_11542 on

      NYC is 9M not 20M. You’d have to include NYC, Long Island, and sections of NJ and CT.

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