Hyper Densities in
European and North American Cities
(Over 50,000 per Square Mile or
19,300 per Square Kilometer)
| Highlight: 73% of hyper-dense areas are in New York, Paris, Barcelona and Madrid | |||||||
| AREA, POPULATION AND DENSITY OF HYPER-DENSE AREAS | |||||||
| Location | City | Square Miles | Population | Population per Square Mile | Square Kilometers | Population per Square Kilometer | Year |
| United States | New York | 51.85 | 4,300,168 | 82,937 | 134.29 | 32,022 | 2000 |
| Europe | Paris | 29.16 | 1,981,384 | 67,946 | 75.53 | 26,234 | 1999 |
| Europe | Barcelona | 11.85 | 1,033,103 | 87,195 | 30.69 | 33,666 | 1991 |
| Europe | Madrid | 14.48 | 953,773 | 65,874 | 37.50 | 25,434 | 1991 |
| Europe | Milano | 5.51 | 351,686 | 63,782 | 14.28 | 24,626 | 1991 |
| Europe | Roma | 6.14 | 336,326 | 54,809 | 15.89 | 21,162 | 1991 |
| Europe | Valencia | 4.28 | 279,217 | 65,208 | 11.09 | 25,177 | 1991 |
| Europe | Napoli | 3.17 | 230,935 | 72,764 | 8.22 | 28,094 | 1991 |
| Europe | Torino | 3.45 | 220,918 | 64,116 | 8.92 | 24,755 | 1991 |
| Europe | Zaragoza | 2.74 | 216,919 | 79,300 | 7.08 | 30,618 | 1991 |
| Europe | Marseille | 3.21 | 178,264 | 55,451 | 8.33 | 21,410 | 1990 |
| Europe | Wien | 3.09 | 174,978 | 56,668 | 8.00 | 21,879 | 1991 |
| Canada | Toronto | 1.83 | 126,074 | 69,034 | 4.73 | 26,654 | 2001 |
| Europe | Lisboa | 1.90 | 116,070 | 61,242 | 4.91 | 23,646 | 1991 |
| United States | Los Angeles | 1.74 | 115,796 | 66,549 | 4.51 | 25,695 | 2000 |
| United States | Chicago | 1.33 | 85,587 | 64,351 | 3.44 | 24,846 | 1990 |
| Europe | Lyon | 1.25 | 82,076 | 65,658 | 3.24 | 25,350 | 1990 |
| Europe | Genova | 1.12 | 73,322 | 65,371 | 2.90 | 25,240 | 1991 |
| United States | San Francisco | 1.04 | 72,348 | 69,565 | 2.69 | 26,859 | 1990 |
| Europe | Palermo | 1.03 | 70,589 | 68,822 | 2.66 | 26,572 | 1991 |
| Europe | Amsterdam | 1.20 | 67,447 | 56,259 | 3.11 | 21,722 | 1990 |
| Europe | Munchen | 1.03 | 64,556 | 62,458 | 2.68 | 24,115 | 1991 |
| Canada | Montreal | 0.62 | 40,737 | 65,310 | 1.62 | 25,216 | 2001 |
| Europe | London | 0.74 | 37,796 | 50,985 | 1.92 | 19,685 | 1991 |
| Europe | Toulouse | 0.37 | 24,468 | 67,020 | 0.95 | 25,876 | 1990 |
| Canada | Vancouver | 0.37 | 23,132 | 62,880 | 0.95 | 24,278 | 2001 |
| Europe | Brussels | 0.42 | 21,640 | 50,953 | 1.10 | 19,673 | 1996 |
| United States | Boston | 0.28 | 18,638 | 66,564 | 0.73 | 25,700 | 1990 |
| Europe | Nice | 0.18 | 14,676 | 81,212 | 0.47 | 31,356 | 1990 |
| United States | Washington | 0.18 | 10,210 | 56,722 | 0.47 | 21,900 | 1990 |
| Europe | Stuttgart | 0.17 | 8,816 | 53,318 | 0.43 | 20,586 | 1991 |
| United States | Baltimore | 0.03 | 5,446 | 181,533 | 0.08 | 70,090 | 1990 |
| Europe | Bari | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Berlin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Birmingham | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Bordeaux | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1990 | ||
| Europe | Bradford | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| United States | Cleveland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1990 | ||
| Europe | Dublin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Essen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Frankfurt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Glasgow | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Goteborg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Graz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Hamburg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Helsinki | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Kobenhavn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Leeds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Lille | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1990 | ||
| Europe | Liverpool | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Manchester | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| United States | Miami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1990 | ||
| Europe | Oporto | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| United States | Philadelphia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1990 | ||
| United States | Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1990 | ||
| United States | Portland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1990 | ||
| Europe | Rotterdam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Sevilla | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Stockholm | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | ||
| Europe | Strasbourg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1990 | ||
| Includes all cities in the EC Interregio database, and all major cities in Canada and the United States. | |||||||
| Not all cities with no hyper dense areas listed. | |||||||
| Paris is calculated at the arrondissement level. All others calculated at the local area or census tract level. It is possible that at the census tract level the Paris figures would be somewhat higher. | |||||||
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