Talk:List of United States urban areas

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[edit] Article reduced to conform with size standards

I reduced the article to Urban Areas over 100,000 not only to conform with other list pages (see List of United States cities by population), but also so that the page will easiler to access in case a user has a slower PC. The list was entirely too long. --Moreau36; 2313, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Utterly outrageous. The list of U.S. cities page is limited to those over 100,000 because this is the only thing that we have 2005 estimates for, as far as I'm aware. Since UA definitions are based on the 2000 census, we have full listings, and there's no reason not to give them somewhere. If you wanted to remove them, you should have created a new page for them. I have, for now, restored the list for all UAs (i.e., those with population >50,000.) But, really, there's no good reason not to have a full list. I'd be happy to divide such a list among several pages, but it certainly shouldn't be removed entirely. john k 07:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Area in Sq KM, but Density in Sq Miles?!

Hillsboro 18:19, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ah

I knew there was a reason I left the thing in my user space after putting all that work in. Merging seems appropriate, although I don't particularly want to actually do the manual merging... john k 18:39, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Motion to Update!

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69.230.102.210 19:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)Aron

The page is based on the 2000 census. Most of the urban areas will have grown since then, some of them considerably. john k 07:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
The United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report has 2005 estimates and 2010/2015 projections for U.S. urban areas with over 750,000 population. --Polaron | Talk 15:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
But that would mean limiting ourselves to those over 750,000. I'd rather just stick to the 2000 numbers. john k 16:01, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Urbanized Clusters

Ought we add them? The largest are bigger than the smallest urban areas. john k (talk) 15:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • They either ought to be added, or the "Type" column ought to be removed. jSarek (talk)

[edit] Populations don't match with city articles

Why do city articles that have an urban area population listed have different numbers than on this list? For example, New York City has 18,498,000 listed for urban area in its article, and 17,799,861 here. The Richmond, Virginia article has an urban area population of 1,045,250, while this article puts it at 818,836. In fact, every article I've checked has this problem. What is the source for this discrepancy? Was different data used for this list than the city articles, and if so, what is the source for the urban area populations in the city articles? Thanks. 12.218.153.85 (talk) 21:42, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

The UN World Urbanization Prospects report utilizes Census-defined urbanized areas for tabulating populations of U.S. cities. They have estimates for five year intervals only. That report is what has been used for some of these cities. Also, the report has had several revisions, which retroactively update some estimates so some of the figures you see in city articles might not reflect the latest revision. --Polaron | Talk 22:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC)