Demographia

Employment Density in International
Central Business Districts
Ranked by Density

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International Urbanized Area Analysis and Data Product
Dated 29 July 2000 as Revised.
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BY CBD EMPLOYMENT DENSITY          
Urban Area Business District Employment in
Business District		 Land Area:
Square Miles		 Employment
per Square
Mile		 Employment
per Square
Kilometer		 Year
New York Midtown Core 739,452 1.2 606,108 233,838 1990
Hong Kong Core CBD 193,520 0.4 443,897 171,257 1990
New York Downtown Core 340,028 0.8 441,595 170,368 1990
Chicago CBD Core (Loop) 385,399 1.0 374,902 144,638 1990
Paris La Defence 140,000 0.6 233,333 90,021 2000
New York South of 59 St.+++ 1,967,000 8.9 221,672 85,522 1990
Hong Kong Victora-Kowloon+ 1,107,593 5.5 200,901 77,508 1990
Toronto CBD 143,650 0.7 198,054 76,410 1990
San Francisco CBD 291,036 1.5 192,932 74,434 1990
Washington CBD 316,723 1.8 178,467 68,853 1990
Seoul CBD 1,226,830 8.2 150,210 57,951 1990
Tokyo CBD Core 2,434,163 16.3 149,795 57,791 2001
Seattle Seattle CBD Core 98,620 0.7 146,104 56,367 1990
Melbourne CBD 126,286 0.9 137,535 53,061 1990
Brisbane CBD 61,844 0.5 137,008 52,858 1990
Frankfurt CBD 119,735 0.9 129,314 49,890 1990
Brussels CBD 144,906 1.2 121,947 47,047 1990
Ottawa CBD 82,307 0.7 121,908 47,032 1990
Los Angeles L.A. CBD Core 167,297 1.4 116,178 44,822 1990
London CBD 1,260,500 11.5 109,829 42,372 1990
Sydney CBD 175,620 1.6 109,425 42,216 1990
Zurich CBD 63,410 0.6 108,131 41,717 1990
Adelaide CBD 73,868 0.7 105,782 40,811 1990
Portland CBD 108,372 1.1 100,322 38,704 1990
Singapore CBD 280,000 2.8 100,105 38,621 1990
Vienna CBD 112,770 1.1 98,087 37,842 1990
Chicago CBD+ 592,301 6.2 95,811 36,964 1990
Tokyo Yamanote Loop++ 4,245,853 46.1 92,033 35,506 2001
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Osaka Core CBD 1,317,926 14.4 91,714 35,383 2001
Paris CBD 1,025,000 11.2 91,614 35,345 1990
Hamburg CBD 153,590 1.8 86,545 33,389 1990
Tokyo Shinjuku 604,468 7.0 85,984 33,173 2001
Vancouver CBD 104,000 1.3 79,991 30,861 1990
Houston CBD 118,889 1.5 78,612 30,329 1990
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Osaka Loop+ 1,532,745 19.7 77,765 30,002 2001
Boston CBD 258,240 3.3 77,115 29,751 1990
Calgary CBD 86,700 1.1 75,412 29,094 1990
Tokyo Shibuya 438,895 5.8 75,282 29,044 2001
Munich CBD 219,518 3.1 71,571 27,612 1990
Copenhagen CBD 122,770 1.8 69,938 26,982 1990
Los Angeles Freeway Loop+ 310,321 4.5 68,960 26,605 1990
Stockholm CBD 111,233 1.6 67,999 26,234 1990
Detroit CBD 93,012 1.4 66,599 25,694 1990
Seattle Seattle CBD+ 171,510 2.7 64,706 24,964 1990
Nagoya Core CBD 402,040 6.6 61,008 23,537 2001
Manila CBD 815,400 13.9 58,709 22,650 1990
Montreal CBD 273,203 4.7 57,855 22,321 1990
Edmonton CBD 63,200 1.1 55,156 21,279 1990
Denver CBD 111,887 2.5 45,599 17,592 1990
Canberra CBD 22,521 0.5 41,696 16,086 1990
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Kyoto CBD 107,629 2.6 40,924 15,788 2001
Winnipeg CBD 68,593 1.7 40,408 15,590 1990
Bangkok CBD 271,944 7.9 34,284 13,227 1990
Perth CBD 99,819 2.9 34,088 13,151 1990
San Diego CBD 72,964 2.2 33,179 12,801 1990
Hiroshima CBD 190,794 5.9 32,229 12,434 2001
Sacramento CBD 54,121 1.8 30,364 11,715 1990
Tokyo Yokohama CBD 312,446 10.7 29,310 11,308 2001
Nagoya Rail-River Ring+ 735,106 26.6 27,646 10,666 2001
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Kobe CBD 255,904 9.9 25,954 10,013 2001
Amsterdam CBD 80,722 3.2 25,392 9,796 1990
Phoenix CBD 35,267 1.5 23,260 8,974 1990
Denver Tech Center 54,845 6.0 9,141 3,527 1990
+ Includes Core CBD.
++Includes Core CBD, Shinjuku & Shibuya
++Includes Midtown & Downtown
Estimated from Jeffrey R. Kenworthy, Felix B. Laube and others, "An International Sourcebook of Automobile Dependence in Cities: 1960-1990," US Census Bureau, Japan Statistics Bureau & Statistics Centre, Statistics Office of the UK and Demographia.
United States data differs from Census Bureau data due to differing area definitions.

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