2011 US city population estimates

[Stephane Dumas]

A bit off-topic, some Canadians cities in the Prairies also got a rise in population. For Calgary, the population was 403319 and jumped to 2011 to 1096833 in 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Calgary

[TXtoNJ]

Hell, might as well add the biggest metros as well:

New York - 10,694,633
Los Angeles-Long Beach - 6,742,696
Chicago - 6,220,913
Philadelphia - 4,342,897
Detroit - 3,762,360
San Francisco-Oakland - 2,783,359
Boston - 2,589,301
Pittsburgh - 2,405,435
St. Louis - 2,060,103
Washington, DC - 2,001,897
Cleveland - 1,796,595
Baltimore - 1,727,023
Newark - 1,689,420
Minneapolis-St. Paul - 1,482,030
Buffalo - 1,306,957
Houston - 1,243,158
Milwaukee - 1,194,290
Paterson-Clifton-Passaic - 1,186,873
Seattle - 1,107,213
Dallas - 1,083,601
Cincinnati - 1,071,624
Kansas City - 1,039,493
San Diego - 1,033,011
Atlanta - 1,017,188

These are ALL the metros over one million.

It's amazing that the Metroplex and Greater Houston are essentially the size of Greater LA and Chicagoland 45 years ago

[Chris]

A bit off-topic, some Canadians cities in the Prairies also got a rise in population. For Calgary, the population was 403319 and jumped to 2011 to 1096833 in 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Calgary

Alberta's going through a huge energy industry boom nowadays. On a smaller scale some of the northern U.S. states are also not doing bad after the stagnation in the past decades.

[J N Winkler]

Has anyone tried ranking the states by population anisotropy (i.e., percentage of the state's population in the largest metropolitan area or largest continuous built-up area, whichever yields the largest population)?

[empirestate]

There aren't too many states than can say that.

Washington contains all of D.C.'s population.

I'm not sure anybody was doubting that a substantial percentage of capital districts could say that. 

[DTComposer]

Has anyone tried ranking the states by population anisotropy (i.e., percentage of the state's population in the largest metropolitan area or largest continuous built-up area, whichever yields the largest population)?

I started to do that, but a good number of those metro areas crossed state lines, so I'd have to find the figures for the portions within that state (which I'm pretty sure the Census Bureau has somewhere without having to break it down by counties). I may do some digging later.

[golden eagle]

Has anyone tried ranking the states by population anisotropy (i.e., percentage of the state's population in the largest metropolitan area or largest continuous built-up area, whichever yields the largest population)?

I thought about doing that, though I was going to do it by the percentage of people per state in metro areas. 

[golden eagle]

Cities growing faster than suburbs