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1910 ‘Metropolitan Districts’

I have collated the 1910 numbers below into a single list.

Green indicates a positive rank change or growth rate over the national average (21%) in this decade, red indicates negative growth (or negative rank change, but only if there was also negative growth). Italics are metropolitan districts where the suburbs are larger than the core city. New entries are in bold.

1. New York City: 6,474,568
City: 4,766,883
Surroundings: 1,707,685

2. Chicago: 2,446,921
City: 2,185,283
Surroundings: 261,538

3. Philadelphia: 1,972,342
City: 1,549,008
Surroundings: 423,334

4. Boston: 1,520,470
City: 670,585
Surroundings: 849,885

5. Pittsburgh: 1,042,855
City: 533,905
Surroundings: 508,950

6. St. Louis: 828,733
City: 687,029
Surroundings: 141,704

7. San Francisco-Oakland: 686,873
San Francisco: 416,912
Oakland: 150,174
Surroundings: 119,787

8. Baltimore: 658,715
City: 558,485
Surroundings: 100,230

9. Cleveland: 613,270
City: 560,663
Surroundings: 38,252

10. Cincinnati: 563,804
City: 363,591
Surroundings: 200,213

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11. Minneapolis-St. Paul: 526,226
Minneapolis: 301,408
St. Paul: 214,744
Surroundings: 10,104

12. Detroit: 500,982
City: 465,766
Surroundings: 35,216

13. Buffalo: 488,661
City: 423,715
Surroundings: 64,946

14. Los Angeles: 438,226
City: 319,198
Surroundings: 119,028

Los Angeles jumped 15 places… essentially a new entry.

15. Milwaukee: 427,175
City: 373,857
Surroundings: 53,318

16. Providence: 395,972
City: 224,326
Surroundings: 171,646

17. Washington, D.C. 367,869
City: 331,069
Surroundings: 36,800

18. Albany: 349,846
City: 100,253
Surroundings: 249,583

19. New Orleans: 348,109
City: 339,075
Surroundings: 9,034

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20. Kansas City: 340,446
KCMO: 248,381
KCKS: 82,331
Surroundings: 9,734 (likely due to annexations into one of the two KCs)

21. Scranton: 314,538
City: 119,295
Surroundings: 184,671

22. Louisville: 286,158
City: 223,928
Surroundings: 62,230

23. Fall River: 284,938
City: 119,295
Surroundings: 165,643

24. Lowell: 283,741
City: 106,294
Surroundings: 177,447

25. Rochester: 248,512
City: 218,149
Surroundings: 30,363

26. Seattle: 239,269
City: 237,194
Surroundings: 2,075

27. Indianapolis: 237,783
City: 233,650
Surroundings: 4,133 (likely due to annexations)

28. New Haven: 224,901
City: 133,605
Surroundings: 91,296

29. Worcester: 222,732
City: 145,986
Surroundings: 76,746

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30. Columbus: 221,567
City: 181,511
Surroundings: 40,056

31. Denver: 219,314
City: 213,381
Surroundings: 5,933

32. Portland: 215,048
City: 207,214
Surroundings: 7,834

33. Birmingham: 211,961
City: 132,685
Surroundings: 79,276 (city merger)

34. Atlanta: 208,284
City: 154,839
Surroundings: 53,445

35. Omaha: 206,749
City: 124,096
Surroundings: 82,653

36. Toledo: 203,748
City: 168,497
Surroundings: 35,251

37. Syracuse: 183,462
City: 137,249
Surroundings: 46,213

38. Memphis: 175,183
City: 131,105
Surroundings: 44,078

39. Richmond: 168,854
City: 127,628
Surroundings: 41,226

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40. Dayton: 163,646
City: 116,577
Surroundings: 47,069

41. Bridgeport: 156,765
City: 102,054
Surroundings: 54,711

42. Nashville: 150,910
City: 110,364
Surroundings: 40,546 (may be an actual loss, rather than a result of the city annexing adjacent land)

43. Grand Rapids: 145,632
City: 112,571
Surroundings: 33,061

44. Spokane: 124,838
City: 104,402
Surroundings: 20,436




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Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmass...1,0.319,0.47,0