#Compare cities by people per square mile crack
And it doesn't even crack the top 250 internationally, which is a good piece of trivia for when your friends complain about taking the train ALLLLL THE WAAAAAAY into Bushwick. But while the population's multiplying faster than those gerbils your mother made you give away in second grade, the city itself isn't getting any bigger-in fact, though New York's the most populous city in the country, it's only the 24th largest city in terms of land area (defined by the city limits) in the U.S. According to SpareFoot, Detroit would be larger than the state of Delaware in land area with just 175 people per square mile.New York has more people than its subway cars can fit these days. In Michigan we have the up north, but Anchorage is really the up up north. Jacksonville also has a population under 1 million people (868,031) but their population density is 1,162 per square mile. If Detroit were spread out like Jacksonville, you’d be in Birmingham or Livonia and still be in the city limits as it would be four times the size. It’s interesting to note that Houston has three light rail lines and 23.8 miles of light rail with a similar population density of 3,830 per square mile, though their total population is 2,296,224 people. This might be a good measuring stick going forward for discussion. Ok, we’re back stateside with the city on the list that is the most similar to Detroit as far population density goes, with Houston’s density meaning we’d be just a touch larger.
Dhaka, BangladeshĪnother tight fit, but roomy compared to Manila. That’s 4 percent of the current land area at 107,467 people per square mile. Imagine if all 670,000+ people were packed from I-75 to the riverfront to Warren to I-96. This one kind of blows your mind, as we’re just not used to seeing this kind of density in the United States. The SpareFoot rendering put the city from the riverfront to about I-94. Paris, Franceĭetroit has been called the “Paris of the Midwest.” So how big would our city be if we had the same population but the density of Paris? Quite small, at just 12 square miles. Detroit would be just over a quarter the land area if we had the same population density. San Francisco, California is a very dense city by American standards, at 18,440 people per square mile. A Detroit with the density of Chicago would cover 57 square miles, or 41 percent of it’s current size. Chicago, IllinoisĪt 11,953 people per square mile, Chicago is more dense than Detroit. Los Angeles, CaliforniaĪt 8,474 people per square mile, if Detroit were like the “City of Angels” it would be 57 percent of it’s current size with our current population. Amsterdam, Netherlandsĭetroit would be 49 percent of the size, or about half, if it had the same population density of Amsterdam at 9,975 people per square mile. If Detroit had the same density of 11,020 people per square mile, it’d be 55 percent the current land area. According to SpareFoot, the density of people per square mile is 28,256. If Detroit were as dense as New York City, the whole population of the city would only cover 24 square miles, or 17 percent of it’s current size. The adjusted land area in these examples is the dark red. So take a look at the maps of how large Detroit would be if our population was the same, but our population density was adjusted to match these 12 cites in the United States and the rest of the world. That gives us 4,878 people per square mile in the city proper across 139 square miles.
First, we’re going to use the Detroit population figure of 677,116.
#Compare cities by people per square mile series
This is an interesting question and to help inform the debate, the folks at SpareFoot created and shared with us a series of maps showing how large Detroit would be if its population lived as densely (or less densely) than other cities.
That’s a much denser plan than you’d find in most suburbs. What you don’t often hear in these debates is the level of density a city should aim for, and there’s often no context of what other cities are really like.ĭo we want grocery stores that are walkable in distance, or is drivable like in the suburbs good enough? The mayor’s office has talked about 20 minute neighborhoods, where the essential goods and services are within 20 minutes walking distance. In short, whether a neighborhood should become more dense or less. It’s often the case that controversial urban planning debates boil down to density. When we talk about Detroit coming back, adding population, losing population - density is a key part of this equation as denser cities encourage use of mass transit vs. What kind of future do you want for the city of Detroit? That’s a complicated question, but one factor of many to consider is population density.
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