I recently did this with Pennsylvania. Out of 2,571 municipalities, 50% of the population is found in just the 174 most populous municipalities, which is only 6.77% of the municipalities in the state. That's even higher than the 10.83% in this stat for Massachusetts.
In fact if you look at just the 1% most populous municipalities, you'll find 25.26% of the state's population.
You have to sum up the populations of all of the 58.9% least populous municipalities to get the same number of people as are found in just the single largest municipality: the city of Philadelphia (1.55 million).
I mean, it's like over 2/3 of Nevadans live in the Las Vegas valley. 2.2 million out of 3.2 million. So 4 neighboring cities (Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City) out of 17 cities, 99 cities and towns. Another half million in Reno-Sparks area. Massachusetts seems pretty evenly spread to me.
Breaking news, cities are cities
"just one"
I'm more interested in hearing about the near-half of Massachusetts residents who live in multiple cities at once!
I recently did this with Pennsylvania. Out of 2,571 municipalities, 50% of the population is found in just the 174 most populous municipalities, which is only 6.77% of the municipalities in the state. That's even higher than the 10.83% in this stat for Massachusetts.
In fact if you look at just the 1% most populous municipalities, you'll find 25.26% of the state's population.
You have to sum up the populations of all of the 58.9% least populous municipalities to get the same number of people as are found in just the single largest municipality: the city of Philadelphia (1.55 million).
People really do be livin' in cities.
I mean, it's like over 2/3 of Nevadans live in the Las Vegas valley. 2.2 million out of 3.2 million. So 4 neighboring cities (Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City) out of 17 cities, 99 cities and towns. Another half million in Reno-Sparks area. Massachusetts seems pretty evenly spread to me.
it’s fairly densely populated throughout, and doesn’t have any unincorporated areas. helps when there’s no desert
I'd guess that damn near all of them live in just one of those cities or towns. It'd be weird I'd they lived in two cities in the same state.
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That’s why he posted it here
It's been a while since I've seen an actual r/PeopleLiveInCities post in this sub.
Edit: To clarify, this is not one.
Edit 2: Apparently there actually are some recent ones, reddit just didn't show me for some reason?