Half of the US population lives in 244 super-dense counties
Manhattan has about 1.6 million residents sharing just under 23 square miles of land. Meanwhile, 669 square mile Loving County, TX has just 86 residents.
We wanted to explore the wide dispersion in the population density of the US's 3,142 counties.
The 244 densest US counties are shown in dark purple in the map below. According to the Census Bureau's population estimates for 2014 and their tabulations of the land area of each county, 50.1% of the US population lives in those counties:
Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from US Census Bureau
=============================
by Andy Kiersz
There may be links in the Original Article that have not been reproduced here.
Tags
Who is online
84 visitors
Yikes...
Author called off topic {SP}
Author called off topic {SP}
Off topic [ph]
Author called off topic {SP}
Author called off topic {SP}
This country is way overpopulated
How are Las Vegas, Boise and Pheonix not on that map, when Dayton and Toledo are?
Phoenix may be a city, legally... but it's population density is roughly the same as Siberia. I'd guess the others are the same.
San Juaquin, Fresno, Kern, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties in New California aren’t in the top 244 either?
The topic of the map is population density.
i think those "New California" counties appear on the stupidest counties map not the densest city map..
Did you see the Cal 3 petition that just got over 600,000 votes from the California residents. It makes New California LA and the surrounding counties while making Redding North California and Orange County/Riverside County South California.
It seems to be getting a little traction.
What about San Diego County, one of the largest counties in Calif.?
it changes to South California also. The article was on CNN. the population dispersment appears equally proportioned but the income equality of the 3 states is significant.
I've lived in the sticks and I've lived in the cities. Life in the city is much easier and much more interesting !
I grew up in the middle of illinois corn fields where they still haven't figured out corn fields and baseball fields dont make for a thriving economy. Where most of the locals are still waiting on the government forty years later to fix their world... NO thanks !!
I now live in Phoenix AZ with 4.5 million other people where jobs, money and happiness are very abundant. Here everything I need is within miles of my home and my choices are infinite.
You can have that country life the city is the place for me. ...LoL
New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
To each their own !!
I don't want to live in a large city because I don't like people that much. My ideal location is a few miles outside of a large metro area where I can enjoy the culture and economic opportunities of the city but far enough away that I have a little space of my own.
That sounds nice but in reality your only exposed to as many people as you want to be anywhere you are. I'm not a huge people fan myself, that's why I have walls, doors and windows. I also have a nice big and private back yard to enjoy the outdoors.
When people call me or come to my door I still decide whether to answer it and deal with a human or not.
But I also do not have a long commute to get anything and everything in life I that I want or need.
I did the "slightly country thing" myself for a time but finally committed to just buying a nice home in a nice neighborhood. It has been the best decision I ever made. No more country living for this old country boy.
My time and money are better spent elsewhere instead of behind the wheel of a car, in a gas station or waiting in traffic to get home.
Like I say and believe though... to each their own.
I don't enjoy living in the noise and congestion of a larger city, even if I love the cultural opportunities. Right now I live in a small town but I'm within 20 minutes of Akron, an hour from Cleveland, 90 minutes from Columbus and 2.5 hours of Pittsburgh. I can't imagine living anywhere smaller because it would be too rural, but I don't want to live in a Brooklyn brownstone either. My ideal situation would be a few acres in the Hudson Valley about 40 miles outside of NYC. Or somewhere in Ontario between Toronto and Detroit.
A few years from college I had a job in Cleveland that led to me having a 1-hour commute. I hated that job, even when the pay was good because it was all that my life was. 2 hours commuting and 10 hours working.
I agree. Small cities are the best. Fifty thousand to a hundred thousand. There'll be all the advantages of a big city, without the bigness.
50-100k people would be a good size. Where I live now is well under 20,000.
One of the main things I actually miss living here in this metropolis is the stars. We give off so much light 24/7 we never see the stars here.
Phoenix is so spread out the sound isn't much more of a factor than an any mid sized city here. In fact many times its surprisingly quiet.
The other main thing I miss is the lakes and rivers. I now live in the middle of a damn desert ...lol (Although once in town, you'd never know it.)
The main bonus of living here is Everything I want or need is within miles of me 24/7/365 and our winters can't be beat.
On everything but a full moon, I can walk out into my yard and see the Milky Way. It isn't clear but it is possible to make out more than 200+ stars and a handful of planets on the averge night.
There are 2 small streams that run through town and right now they are poropably flooding because we are under a flood warning due to the rain for the past 36 hours.
I can walk 4 blocks either south or east and 6 blocks west and I can be standing in a farmers field of some sort. It is a very relaxing place to live but I feel like I am 200 years behind the time because of the overwhelming social conservativeness of the area.
I live in one of those. http://www.visitredding.com/mobile/ Redding, Ca is anti density. It’s physically as big as San Francisco with 1/8th the population and lots of green belts, forest land, parks, and trails in the city. It’s 12 miles south to north and 8 miles west to east by major highways. There’s not a bigger city to the west and at least 160 miles in the other directions. It’s perfect. Lots of all kinds of outdoor things to do and places to go and Sacramento is just over 2hr’s away and Oakland/SF 3.5 hr’s away.
does not sound like to much business or economic growth opportunities either, what the average household income there? Is the major export crystal?
Don't mean to make fun of Redding, but it seems according to crime statistics of Redding it is full of people whom like to rape and assault each other by more than 50% the national average per capita.
Crime Rates
I bet I can name where you live within a 25 mile distance since I live in the same state
Totally understood, your choice. I played that"game" too long long ago. No more. I will not be left behind again.
I'm trying to convert conservatives one person at a time in my bible belt town
I want to get out as soon as possible but as of right now I have a family obligation. I'm either moving to the NE or the NW (Oregon or Washington). I have a friend trying to talk me into moving to the north side of Detroit to form a partnership with him as a subcontractor for Ford.
Why ?
Are you a glutton for punishment ?
lol
Been there, done that. Best of luck.
I've relocated 4 times in my life, each one made my life better. But these days No more cold for me... hopefully ever. I hated the cold since I was a kid. I grew up in central Illinois back when they had horrible cold long winters and I couldn't wait to get they hell out of that climate even as a kid. I was gone at age 19 and never looked back ...
PS: I made the mistake of going back ONE christmas. ONCE .... BRrrrr Froze my ass off !!
I shut down above 85 and just want to hibernate inside, but I tolerate the cold quite well. I like to cross-country ski.
I've done this hike when it was in the single digits and enjoyed it.
We played 18 holes this morning, and were home before 9. Then we closed everything and cranked up the air conditioning...
Brrr.. NO Way !
I guess we do get "climitoized" I personally cant stand cold weather. Anything below about 45 degrees and I head indoors. I'm ok up to about 95 then indoors as well.
But I haven't been in cold weather for 29 years. Even then I hated it so bad I relocated out of it. Permanently.
But thankfully we all have different likes or we'd all be living on top of each other fighting for the same everything.
Its 30 outside right now and I just got back from a 4-mile walk between the time I posted the last reply. I had on a short-sleeved top, capri leggings and a fleece jacket. I was plenty warm.
LOL
to each their own !
It's 78 degrees here right now and I love it.
78 sounds great for the high temperature of the day. It was 73 on Friday and Saturday and then it started to rain. Tonight we might get 1" of snow that will hopefully melt before 10 am.
Sounds like where you live the weather doesn't know whether its summer, spring winter or fall. lol
This is typical spring weather in Ohio. You have the heat on in the morning and the AC on the commute home.
This year is particularly weird. I don't remember it snowing this late in the season for a very long time.
Our spring weather is a long-running joke. The tornados will start in a few weeks. YEA!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redding,_California
Yes, I am. And I'm failing and flailing
San Francisco is 3.5Xs bigger than Redding in land area. Sheesh.
How is this reply in any way relevant to what I posted?
Changing anyones mind about most things is difficult. Changing someone's long ingrained philosophy is next to impossible. Making small inroads into a person's defective philosophy is tough enough but it has it's silent rewards and/or personal satisfaction that just perhaps you did good for the world when successful.
I never gave up, I just try to keep it all in perspective. After all how far evolved really are are some human beings from neanderthals anyway?
lol
Actually I saw a documentary about "Changing a human's mind" it was a very detailed documentary and it showed that once someones mind believes it has all the info it needs to make a decision it is very difficult to even get some peoples minds to even listen to or accept as reality any further information that contradicts the decision they have made.
WOW some people's minds are like steel traps. Who would have seen that coming ... LOL
That documentary helped my perspective. Now I know some people you may never reach with what you believe to be reality. (Sometimes I may even be one of those poor souls myself.) lol
It also helped me to remember to TRY to keep an open mind. I already knew I haven't been 100 % correct every time in the past and therefore I doubt if I am in the future either. Having a closed mind allows me to never know when I'm wrong. IMO: That sucks ! So I try not to do that.
Knowing that helps me keep my perspective and some of my sanity...LOL
I don't know about super-dense counties, but there sure was a lot of super-dense voting in the last election!
LOL Lenny!
That was surely true in the densely populated cities and counties. The rest of us got it right!
I finally got that after the third reading. Talk about dense....
I like my small, not so densely populated state. I just need a beach
If you had a beach... you'd probably have more density in population, People like to live near water.
I know, so I'll stay content with my woods
Iz be a Beach Bunny....not a Snow Bunny.....so I live where it is warm and close to a beach.
LOL!!! When I lived only a block from the beach at Pacific Beach in San Diego area may years ago, I had a very bad experience with the dang sand fleas in my apt. I had to leave and stay with a Friend for a few days while they exterminated the apt. Those buggars at not for the faint hearted.
I also had a run in with the creepy sand crabs at the beach in Padre Island in So Texas while visiting several years ago. Man those thing hurt!!!
I hate snow. If I never see another snowflake I will die a happy camper...unless I'm skiing.
You don't want to ever see another snowflake?? We're going to miss you here at NT, Trout, I hope you reconsider and stay! Snowflakes aren't so bad...
funny guy
I was raised in inner city N,O, Shotgun house....four rooms...three kids with Mother and Daddy. It was great. Took the bus to Canal St., caught the streetcar to Royal St., got off and walked five blocks to WDSU-TV Station, did my weekly TV show and came back home, Life was good.
From North to South and East to West, I have travelled. Lived in Mexico and England and travelled to many Countries. My ashes will be given to the wind in front of the Plaza Hotel in N,Y, City as I totally love that City.
I have lived in the Great State of Alabama since 1974 and despite the heat to sit on the pier fishing and crabbing is heaven. The honeysuckle is unbelievable in the summer. I live in a beautiful small city.
I have been truly blessed,
Nothing like some chicken necks and a net, to go crabbing. My friends these days seem to buy a half bushel of steamed crabs .. much better to catch them yourself, steam them yourself. Now, I prefer doing that closer to the Chesapeake bay, where if it's too hot, we can get in the water - no alligators!
I still pull the stamens through the honeysuckle blossoms to get a drop of nectar on my tongue, just as we did as kids. That is summer!
Come back from a Jubilee put the crab pot on to boil, throw 'em in and we have boiled crabs for dinner.