List of United States cities by population density

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The following is a list of incorporated places in the United States with a population density of over 10,000 people per square mile. As defined by the United States Census Bureau, an incorporated place is a place that has a self-governing local government and as such has been "incorporated" by the state it is in. Each state has different laws defining how a place can be incorporated. An "incorporated place" as recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau can designate a variety of places, such as a city, town, village, borough, and township.^[a]

The other type of place defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for statistical purposes are

The population density is calculated by dividing the population by the land area so that it represents the number of people living in one square mile of land area. The population densities listed in the table below do not work out to be exactly the result of dividing the listed population by the listed land area because the land areas have been rounded off to two decimal places, but the population densities were calculated before rounding the land area figures. The land area figures are calculated using the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER system. The U.S. Census Bureau has released the exact land area figures for all places in the U.S. in square meters and square miles;^[3] the exact land areas are the figures used for calculating the population densities seen in the table below.

Cities

The list below only includes

Those cities that are not a part of a larger city's metropolitan area are in bold.

Census-designated places

The following is a list of unincorporated census-designated places with population densities of over 10,000 people per square mile as of the 2010 U.S. Census.^{[citation needed]} The rank column indicates the rank the place would have if census-designated places were included in the above table of incorporated places.

New York City boroughs

The following lists the population densities of the five

has a population density below 10,000, but it is included for comparative purposes.

	Borough	Population (2020)	Land area (mi2)	Density (/mi2)
1	Manhattan	1,694,251	22.66	74,781.6
6	Brooklyn	2,736,074	69.38	39,437.8
7	The Bronx	1,472,654	42.17	34,920.2
16	Queens	2,405,464	108.72	22,124.5
–	Staten Island	495,747	57.52	8,618.1

Puerto Rico

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The following lists the census-designated places in

Puerto Rico census statistical areas

). The rank column indicates the rank the place would have if included in the above table of incorporated places.

Rank	Census-designated place	Metropolitan area	Municipality	Population (2000 census)	Land area (mi2)	Population density (people per mi2)
43	San Isidro	San Juan	Canóvanas	8,071	0.57	14,057.8
52	Levittown	San Juan	Toa Baja	30,140	2.27	13,279.1
53	Suárez	San Juan	Loíza	2,276	0.17	13,189.1
64	Vieques	San Juan	Loíza	4,325	0.34	12,579.2
69	Campanilla	San Juan	Toa Baja	7,757	0.63	12,328.4
105	El Ojo	Ponce	Santa Isabel	1,713	0.16	11,034.4
110	Aguada	Aguadilla	Aguada	3,871	0.36	10,877.8
115	San Juan	San Juan	San Juan	421,958	39.47	10,690.8
126	Peña Pobre	San Juan	Naguabo	1,024	0.10	10,308.7
127	Jayuya	—	Jayuya	3,516	0.34	10,218.4
136	Comerío	San Juan	Comerío	4,478	0.45	10,029.7

Northern Mariana Islands

In the

. China Town would rank 105th if it were in the first table above.

Rank	Census-designated place	Metropolitan area	Municipality	Population (2010 Census)	Land area (mi2)	Population density (people per mi2)
105	China Town, MP	None	Saipan	1,274	?	10,901.7

Distributions

The following distributions only include the 125 incorporated places with population densities over 10,000 people per square mile. They do not include the 36 census-designated places, the boroughs of New York City, or the 11 places in Puerto Rico with densities over 10,000.

Metropolitan areas

The following ranks

United States metropolitan areas

by the number of incorporated places with densities over 10,000 within them. If two or more metropolitan areas have the same number of incorporated places, as is the case of the eight metros with one place, the metro areas are ranked by the densest incorporated place within the metro area.

Rank	Metropolitan area	Principal city	10,000+ places	Densest incorporated place	Density
1	New York City	New York City	55	Guttenberg (NJ)	62,264.2
2	Greater Los Angeles Area	Los Angeles	27	Maywood	21,485.5
3	Delaware Valley	Philadelphia	13	Millbourne	16,378.4
4	Miami metropolitan area	Miami	7	Sunny Isles Beach	22,098.9
5	Greater Boston	Boston	7	Somerville	19,652.0
6	Chicago Metropolitan Area	Chicago	7	Berwyn	14,664.4
7	San Francisco Bay Area	San Francisco/San Jose	6	San Francisco	17,246.4
8	Washington Metropolitan Area	Washington, D.C.	3	Mount Rainier (MD)	13,102.2
9	Pittsburgh metropolitan area	Pittsburgh	3	Dormont	10,847.4
11	Providence metropolitan area	Providence	2	Central Falls	18,913.7
10	Louisville-Jefferson County metropolitan area	Louisville	1	Poplar Hills	15,200.0
13	Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area	Buffalo	1	Kenmore	10,588.4
15	Metro Detroit	Detroit	1	Hamtramck	13,604.3

States and territories

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The following ranks the 50

Hawaii officially does not contain any incorporated places, as the city of Honolulu is coextensive with Honolulu County, which makes up the whole island of Oahu. When the U.S. Census Bureau ranks incorporated places by population, it usually includes the Honolulu census-designated place, which is the urban center of Honolulu, in its ranking of incorporated places.^[8] Therefore, for this list of the densest incorporated places by state, the Honolulu CDP is considered the densest incorporated place in Hawaii. The District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories are also included in this list. Puerto Rico also officially does not contain any incorporated places, as the lowest form of local government in Puerto Rico are the municipios, which are equivalent to counties. For this ranking, the municipios are counted as the incorporated places in Puerto Rico, and the San Juan Municipio is the densest.

In

Note: this table contains data from the 2010 U.S. Census — because of this, data is more than 9 years old, and the current population density of each jurisdiction may have changed since then.

Rank (number of 10,000+ places)	State, federal district or territory	10,000+ places	Densest incorporated place	Density (people per sq. mile)	Rank (most dense place)
1	New Jersey	33	Guttenberg	62,264.2	1
2	California	33	Maywood	21,485.5	3
3	New York	23	Kaser	31,924.4	2
4	Pennsylvania	13	Millbourne	16,378.4	7
5	Florida	7	Sunny Isles Beach	22,098.9	4
6	Massachusetts	7	Somerville	19,652.0	5
7	Illinois	7	Berwyn	14,664.4	9
9	Kentucky	1	Poplar Hills	15,200.0	6
8	Rhode Island	2	Central Falls	18,913.7	8
10	Maryland	1	Mount Rainier	13,102.2	10
11	Texas	1	Mobile City	9,466.7	11
12	District of Columbia	1	Washington	11,367.0	12
13	Oregon	1	Johnson City	8,292.3	13
14	Michigan	1	Hamtramck	13,604.3	14
15	Ohio	1	Lakewood	9,190.3	15
16	Missouri	0	Velda City	7,288.3	16
17	Puerto Rico	0	San Juan	9,084.4	17
18	Minnesota	0	Landfall	12,772.7	18
19	Washington	0	Seattle	8,791.8	19
20	Connecticut	0	Bridgeport	9,253.9	20
21	Wisconsin	0	Shorewood	8,716.4	21
22	U.S. Virgin Islands	0	Charlotte Amalie	8,552.0	22
23	Virginia	0	Alexandria	10,681.0	23
24	Colorado	0	Glendale	8,121.5	24
25	American Samoa	0	Faleniu	7,741.2	25
26	Delaware	0	Bellefonte	6,920.9	26
27	Georgia	0	Clarkston	7,997.8	27
28	Arizona	0	Guadalupe	6,652.5	28
29	Nebraska	0	Omaha	3,658.4	29
30	Kansas	0	Westwood Hills	6,250.0	30
31	Utah	0	Kearns	7,929.8	31
32	Iowa	0	University Heights	5,339.1	32
33	Vermont	0	Winooski	5,592.3	33
34	Louisiana	0	Harahan	4,517.3	34
35	Idaho	0	Moscow	3,681.4	35
36	Hawaii	0	Honolulu	5,796.8	36
37	Nevada	0	Las Vegas	4,525.9	37
38	Oklahoma	0	The Village	3,743.3	38
39	Indiana	0	West Lafayette	3,884.0	39
40	Montana	0	Browning	3,688.4	40
41	Mississippi	0	Sidon	2,508.1	41
42	North Carolina	0	Carrboro	3,288.8	42
43	Guam	0	Mongmong-Toto-Maite	3,749.5	43
44	North Dakota	0	Fort Yates	2,933.3	44
45	Alabama	0	Homewood	3,197.1	45
46	West Virginia	0	St. Albans	3,004.4	46
47	Arkansas	0	Cammack Village	2,749.1	47
48	New Hampshire	0	Manchester	3,497.1	48
49	Wyoming	0	Jackson	3,633.9	49
50	Maine	0	Portland	3,175.9	50
51	New Mexico	0	Anthony	3,220.8	51
52	South Dakota	0	Sioux Falls	2,434.2	52
53	South Carolina	0	Tega Cay	2,859.2	53
54	Tennessee	0	East Ridge	2,676.5	54
55	Alaska	0	Kiana	2,352.6	55
56	Northern Mariana Islands	0	Saipan[note 2]	1,050.8	56

Populations

New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia are the only incorporated places in the United States that have a population over 1,000,000 and a population density over 10,000 people per square mile.

Land areas

Population densities

See also

• United States of America
  • Outline of the United States
  • Index of United States-related articles
  • United States Census Bureau
    • Demographics of the United States
      • List of US states and territories by population
      • List of US cities by population
  • United States Office of Management and Budget
    • Statistical area (United States)
      • list
        )
      • Core-based statistical area (list)
        • list
          )
        • list
          )
  • List of United States urban areas – lists contiguous urban areas without regard to municipal boundaries, includes the population density of each urban area
  • County statistics of the United States – includes a list of the 50 most densely populated counties
  • List of U.S. states by population density
• Worldwide
  • List of cities by population density
  • List of countries and dependencies by population density
  • List of the most densely populated country subdivisions

Notes

References

External links

• "Land Area, Population, and Density for Places and (in selected states) County Subdivisions: 2010". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. 2010. Archived from the original on January 3, 2023. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
• Density Using Land Area For States, Counties, Metropolitan Areas, and Places – from the
  1990 U.S. Census
  of population density statistics
• 2000 Census: US Municipalities Over 50,000: Ranked by 2000 Density – from
  Demographia, ranks the population density for all incorporated places over 50,000 population from the 2000 U.S. Census. Note that this list does not contain townships (see the Notes section above
  for a detailed explanation), and does not contain census-designated places.
• US Cities: Ranked by Density: 1990 – from Demographia, ranks all places in the U.S., including incorporated places and census-designated places (CDPs), with population densities over 10,000 people per square mile in 1990
• City Ranks – Population Density Mashup – combines
  ZIP codes
  on an interactive map