How many people per square mile live in your town/city or county?

[dixiegrrrrl]

My lil Southern Town has 485 people per square mile, a total pop. of 6500 people.*

*Facts on line as of 2010 Census.

It's a comfortable spread of people, most houses have a decent size yard, with lots of trees for shade and privacy.

What about you?
Do you prefer more or less than the density you have now?

Jus curious...........

[MuseRider]

1. 52 per square mile

and I like it like that!

Comfy and fairly private.

[RebelOne]

2. I live in Canton, Georgia out in the country with nothing but horse farms

and some farms that have small herds of cattle. I don't think there are even 50 people within a square mile of my house. I like it with less people around as it is very quiet and peaceful,

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Oh cuz....I do hear you.

I had lots of country living coming up as a kid, which is where I got my distaste of living on cement.

Heaven to me is when I get onto the main road to go into town ( which is all of a mile away) and see NO cars at all on either lane. Which is normal except at 8 in the morning and 3":30 pm, when workers go home.
Then we get as many as 3-4 cars backed up at our one light.

[Number9Dream]

13. That sounds like someplace I'd like to move to

Then again, maybe you don't want any newcomers moving there (smile)? (See my reply #12). Any lakes nearby you? I love being near water.

[RebelOne]

28. There are a few lakes around.

Come on to my town and check it out. We still have room for a few newcomers.

[mia]

3. Population:49,631 (3621 per sq mile)

I like it here - close to everything I need, good public transportation and a great neighborhood for walking.

[femmocrat]

5. 136 -- approx. 6000 residents

Fewer would be fine with me. We have been here 30 years and have seen a lot of new homes built in that time. I just hate to see the farms being subdivided, but that's progress, I guess.

[surrealAmerican]

6. My county has 5,495 people per square mile...

... my city has 9,592 - and I like it here.

[greendog]

7. 42

Missoula County, MT. 2nd most populous county in the state.

[riderinthestorm]

8. 606 people/ square mile. Population 9000. Works for me

I'm rural but smack in the development line for Chicago. It's just reaching us.

I'm only 45 minutes from the city which I LOVE, but still fairly rural. Best of both worlds.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

9. Houston - over 3500 people per square mile.

Being from the Northeast, Houston feels spread out and suburban, though it is filling in fast. I saw my very first Amtrack train in Houston today and got very excited. When I move from my home to my condo, I will be able to walk to most of the places I need to go, very unusual in this town.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. 177 for Anchorage,

1.2 for the state of Alaska. (The population of Anchorage is 292,000.)

I like space and hate crowds. That's one of the reasons I love it here.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. I thought of you when I posted this.

Back in my salad days, Alaska was a serious consideration but I do not like cold.
Now, with Alaska warming up.......hmmm.

[CBGLuthier]

11. 2055 per square mile. total of 12,000

Everyone lives near the ocean so it is kind of packed. Overall the entire island has a density of 1738 per square mile spread out across 714 square miles.


Grand-Baie, Mauritius

[Kali]

17. interesting!

have you lived there long?

[CBGLuthier]

22. Since late January

Still adapting to the local culture.

[Number9Dream]

12. The Lehigh Valley of PA density grows worse by the month

I don't know what the population density of our little suburban township is, but the density of the Lehigh Valley, in general, is growing terribly. Developers have bullied zoning boards into allowing them to cover the once nice Lehigh Valley with warehouses and housing developments. What were once farms are now covered with macadam. Traffic is horrendous. Developers are still pushing for more warehouses, more tractor trailers. PennDOT is the worst run organization on the planet. We've been told there's little we can do to prevent the PennEast pipeline from cutting through our valley. Property taxes are astronomical. I have some remaining woods behind my house (for now), but I think we'll be moving to a much less dense area when I retire.

[pinboy3niner]

14. Where I grew up, it's now grown to about 10,000 per square mile

That's L.A.'s San Fernando Valley and it's about normal for the city and county of L.A. today.

It's 1,656 people per square mile here in the Antelope Valley, at the north tip of L.A. county.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Water shortage might change that, pinboy, ya think? n/t

[bigwillq]

15. 3,076.3 per square mile (nt)

[handmade34]

16. about 20...

not many compared to others here

[Kali]

20. 21/square mile

although my nearest neighbor (the loon who thinks a micro-chipped chupacabra is killing all of our cows) is almost 2 miles away.

Cochise County - 6,218.77 sq mi, population 131,346 in 2010, est for 2014 127,448

[fizzgig]

25. that chupacabra gotten any cows lately?

[Kali]

33. they are ALL gone!

guy sent me an audio file of him making the one of the sounds he swears the creature makes - sounded like nightjars/whippoorwills to me, also known as...goatsuckers! coincindence? you be the judge!

[bluedigger]

49. How do you ever stand the crowds?

I'd invite you up here (12) for some quiet time, but i don't want to ruin it for the others.

[sir pball]

21. 71,672/sq. mi.

New York County, densest in the country. Fun for a while but it's starting to wear thin.

[fizzgig]

26. i love visiting there

but i don't know that i could live there for any real amount of time because of that.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. City Is Around The Same Size, But Higher Density

We have a little over 6000, but the city (yeah, not town) is only around 3 miles by a little under 2.25 miles. So, it's only around 6.5 miles^2. Puts us at a density of around 930.

[fizzgig]

24. 2,653 per square mile here

153k people as of 2013, but our city is spread out a bit.

nearly half the people in my county live in our city, and it's a big and rural county, so the population density for the county is only 115/square mile.

[mnhtnbb]

29. Where are you finding the population/sq mile info?

I found the data for Chapel Hill, but there is no mention of square miles or population/sq mile.

http://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=37

I can only find the state wide data for NC: 196.1 people/sq mile.

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. Try this

http://www.city-data.com/

failing that, just put the question into Google....how many people per square mile in ____________

[pokerfan]

34. According to Wikipedia....

Density figures are on the right hand side under population.

Chapel Hill: 2,687 / sq mi

Orange County: 336/sq mi
Durham County: 1,015.4/sq mi

[mnhtnbb]

37. Thanks!

[KamaAina]

30. 1,015,785 / 176.5 = 5755

San Jose, Tenth-Largest City In America(TM).

That's barely even enough to qualify as urban! The standard is 5000.

[Marrah_G]

32. 9676 per square mile

Around 180,000 people

[pokerfan]

35. 21 / sq mi

Lot of wheat fields though.

[murielm99]

36. 1,886.2 per square mile in town.

Of course, there are under 2,500 in the whole town.

I live in the country. There are about eleven people per square mile in my vicinity.

[rurallib]

38. 100/sq. mi. But I think the pigs far out number people

hog confinements

[dixiegrrrrl]

39. Lord I hope the wind is in your favor most of the time.....n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

40. Give or take, 70k within a square mile

we have a fabulous farmers market for produce, but you can't buy shampoo or such there. So - I would love to have a great supermarket in town. Other than that, I am thrilled with city living. I drove all of 14 miles since April (cat food/litter and the aforementioned grocery items) and couldn't be happier.

I would like a yard, but it isn't worth the tradeoff from walking to work or the train, and having literally hundreds of local venues (coffee shops, restaurants, nightclubs) within walking distance on those nights boredom sets in.

Noting: I have double pane, bullet proof windows that were installed before I moved in. In this weather, with them closed, its like being in the middle of nowhere. Nice view of the trees and absolute silence. Fresh air does come with a price of occasional sirens, drunk neighbors you could hear from the next county, and loud music, but its worth it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

41. Hey Sis.....

Yeah, those double pane windows are fantastic for both sound and insulation, aren't they?
My house also has brick walls, and sound does not carry very much IN the house as well as outside.
Except, of course, for the boom-boom-boom thuds that pas for music in passing cars.

We are in a sweet spot, can have much privacy and isolation due to acres of trees around us, but tis only a 10 minute drive to a grocery store.
And again I bless the heat and humidity of summer for keeping almost everyone in their homes.
This is NOT a walking town, not with our weather.

[PasadenaTrudy]

42. 7,500 per sq mile n/t

[seveneyes]

43. About 1.414 and it takes two to tango

[struggle4progress]

44. 2400

[mrmpa]

45. 4,350.8 per square mile..........

a bit over 17,000 people in my township just southwest (8 miles) from downtown Pittsburgh.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

46. Over 6,000 per square mile

in Huntington Beach, California. It's typical of all of Orange County. There really isn't much difference between residential areas and the town because there are few downtowns in SoCal. It's mainly a wasteland of housing developments next to endless numbers of strip malls and no apparent separation between towns to tell you you've entered another of the dozens of look-alike towns except for a sign. And all the houses look pretty much alike, hideous southern California architecture with stucco exteriors. The high traffic and overpopulation have become unbearable to me after living here for 45 years and I need out. It reminds me of that old Star Trek episode about a planet so overpopulated that it had standing room only.

[davidpdx]

47. Bucheon South Korea

Population (April, 2013)
• Total 868,517
• Density 43,151.2/sq mi

The total area of the city is less than 21 sq mi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucheon

[bluedigger]

48. County pop. density is 12/sq. mile.

Bunch of urbanites, you.

[dixiegrrrrl]

50. Lol! I feel so crowded!!!