1930 ‘Metropolitan Districts’
These 1930 numbers use identical geographies as the previous list.
Green indicates a positive rank change or growth rate over the national average (14%) 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. For this decade, I will only include as far down the list as is necessary to capture the whole universe of cities in the previous post (excluding those which had population decline, so down to Trenton). Wilmington drops off as it shrunk due to the method changes.
Highlights: Ohio booms, Houston leapfrogs Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and El Paso (the latter two already had metros, just smaller than what I included), we have our first two metro-wide population losses in Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News and Lowell-Lawrence, and a number of cities climb the rankings. Both Fall River and New Bedford decline within their metro and Providence develops into a single regional core.
1. New York City: 10,901,424
City: 6,930,446
Surroundings: 3,970,978
2. Chicago: 4,364,755
City: 3,376,438
Surroundings: 988,317
3. Philadelphia: 2,847,148
City: 1,950,961
Surroundings: 896,187
4. Los Angeles: 2,318,526
City: 1,238,048
Surroundings: 1,080,478
5. Boston: 2,307,897
City: 781,188
Surroundings: 1,526,365
6. Detroit: 2,104,764
City: 1,568,662
Surroundings: 536,102
7. Pittsburgh: 1,953,668
City: 669,817
Surroundings: 1,071,536
8. St. Louis: 1,293,516
City: 821,960
Surroundings: 298,632
9. San Francisco-Oakland: 1,290,094
San Francisco: 634,394
Oakland: 284,063
Surroundings: 371,637
10. Cleveland: 1,194,989
City: 900,429
Surroundings: 294,560
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11. Providence-Fall River-New Bedford: 963,686
Providence: 252,981
Fall River: 115,274
New Bedford: 112,507
Surroundings: 482,834
12. Baltimore: 949,247
City: 804,874
Surroundings: 144,373
13. Minneapolis-St. Paul: 832,258
Minneapolis: 464,350
St. Paul: 271,600
Surroundings: 96,296
14. Buffalo: 820,573
City: 573,076
Surroundings: 247,497
15. Cincinnati: 759,464
City: 451,160
Surroundings: 308,304
16. Milwaukee: 743,414
City: 578,240
Surroundings: 105,165
17. Scranton-Wilkes Barre: 652,312
Cities: 230,059
Surroundings: 422,253
18. Washington, D.C. 621,059
City: 486,869
Surroundings: 134,190
19. Kansas City: 608,186
KCMO: 309,746
KCKS: 121,857
Surroundings: 86,583
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20. New Orleans: 494,877
City: 458,702
Surroundings: 36,115
21. Hartford: 471,185
City: 164,072
Surroundings: 307,113
22. Albany-Schenectady-Troy: 425,259
Cities: 295,867
Surroundings: 129,392
23. Seattle: 420,663
City: 365,583
Surroundings: 55,080
24. Indianapolis: 417,685
City: 364,161
Surroundings: 53,524
25. Louisville: 404,396
City: 307,745
Surroundings: 96,651
26. Springfield-Holyoke: 398,991
Cities: 206,437
Surroundings: 192,554
27. Rochester: 398,591
City: 328,132
Surroundings: 70,459
28. Birmingham: 382,792
City: 259,678
Surroundings: 123,114
29.. Portland: 378,728
City: 301,815
Surroundings: 72,913
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30. Atlanta: 370,920
City: 270,366
Surroundings: 100,554
31. Youngstown: 364,560
City: 170,002
Surroundings: 194,558
32. Akron: 346,681
City: 255,040
Surroundings: 91,641
33. Toledo: 346,530
City: 290,718
Surroundings: 55,812
34. Columbus: 340,500
City: 290,564
Surroundings: 49,836
35. Houston: 339,216
City: 202,352
Surroundings: 40,864
36. Lowell-Lawrence: 332,028
Cities: 185,302
Surroundings: 146,726
37. Denver: 330,761
City: 287,861
Surroundings: 42,900
38. Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton: 322,172
Cities: 194,923
Surroundings: 137,249
39. Dallas: 309,658
City: 260,475
Surroundings: 49,183
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40. Worcester: 305,293
City: 195,311
Surroundings: 100,982
41. New Haven: 293,724
City: 162,655
Surroundings: 131,069
42. Omaha: 273,351
City: 214,006
Surroundings: 59,845
43. San Antonio: 279,271
City: 231,542
Surroundings: 47,729
44. Memphis: 276,126
City: 253,143
Surroundings: 22,983
45. Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News: 273,233
Cities: 209,831
Surroundings: 63,402
46. Dayton: 251,928
City: 200,982
Surroundings: 50,946
47. Syracuse: 245,015
City: 209,326
Surroundings: 35,689
48. Richmond: 220,513
City: 182,929
Surroundings: 37,584
49. Nashville: 209,422
City: 153,866
Surroundings: 55,556
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50. Grand Rapids: 207,154
City: 168,502
Surroundings: 38,562
51. Bridgeport: 203,969
City: 146,716
Surroundings: 57,253
52. Utica: 190,918
City: 101,740
Surroundings: 89,178
53. Wheeling: 190,623
City: 61,550
Surroundings: 128,964
54. Trenton: 190,219
City: 123,356
Surroundings: 66,863
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Source: https://www2.census.gov/library/publ...3450421ch1.pdf
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HTOWN: 2305k (+10%) + MSA suburbs: 4818k (+26%) + CSA exurbs: 190k (+6%)
BIGD: 1304k (+9%) + MSA div. suburbs: 3826k (+26%) + adj. CSA exurbs: 394k (+8%)
FTW: 919k (+24%) + MSA div. suburbs: 1589k (+14%) + adj. CSA exurbs: 90k (+12%)
SATX: 1435k (+8%) + MSA suburbs: 1124k (+38%) + CSA exurbs: 18k (+11%)
ATX: 962k (+22%) + MSA suburbs: 1322k (+43%)
Last edited by wwmiv; Nov 25, 2022 at 5:10 AM.
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