Demographia

1990 Metropolitan Areas over 1,000,000
and Core Urbanized Areas: 1990

Rank Metropolitan Area Metropolitan Population Urbanized Area Population (Core Area) Share of Metropolitan Population in Urbanized Core Urbanized Area Square Miles Urbanized Population Density
1 Norfolk-Hampton 1,396 1,323 94.8% 664 1,992
2 Phoenix 2,122 2,006 94.5% 741 2,707
3 San Diego 2,498 2,348 94.0% 690 3,403
4 New York 18,087 16,044 88.7% 2,967 5,407
5 San Antonio 1,302 1,129 86.7% 438 2,578
6 Washington 3,923 3,363 85.7% 945 3,559
7 Minneapolis-St. Paul 2,464 2,080 84.4% 1,063 1,957
8 Chicago 8,066 6,792 84.2% 1,585 4,285
9 New Orleans 1,239 1,040 83.9% 270 3,852
10 Orlando 1,073 887 82.7% 395 2,246
11 Tampa 2,068 1,709 82.6% 650 2,629
12 Dallas-Ft. Worth 3,885 3,198 82.3% 1,443 2,216
13 Denver 1,848 1,518 82.1% 459 3,307
14 Memphis 1,007 825 81.9% 341 2,419
15 Kansas City 1,566 1,275 81.4% 762 1,673
16 Buffalo 1,189 954 80.2% 286 3,336
17 St. Louis 2,444 1,947 79.7% 728 2,674
18 Baltimore 2,382 1,890 79.3% 593 3,187
19 Portland 1,478 1,172 79.3% 388 3,021
20 Detroit 4,665 3,697 79.2% 1,119 3,304
21 Los Angeles 14,532 11,402 78.5% 1,966 5,800
22 Houston 3,711 2,902 78.2% 1,177 2,466
23 Milwaukee 1,607 1,226 76.3% 512 2,395
24 Atlanta 2,834 2,157 76.1% 1,137 1,897
25 Pittsburgh 2,243 1,678 74.8% 778 2,157
26 Providence 1,142 846 74.1% 299 2,829
27 Sacramento 1,481 1,097 74.1% 334 3,284
28 Indianapolis 1,250 915 73.2% 469 1,951
29 Salt Lake City 1,072 769 71.7% 254 3,028
30 Philadelphia 5,899 4,222 71.6% 1,164 3,627
31 Cincinnati 1,744 1,212 69.5% 512 2,367
32 Columbus 1,377 945 68.6% 345 2,739
33 Seattle 2,559 1,744 68.2% 588 2,966
34 Boston 4,172 2,775 66.5% 891 3,114
35 Rochester 1,002 620 61.9% 220 2,818
36 Cleveland 2,760 1,677 60.8% 636 2,637
37 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale 3,193 1,915 60.0% 353 2,592
38 San Francisco 6,253 3,630 58.1% 874 4,153
39 Hartford 1,086 546 50.3% 247 2,211
40 Charlotte 1,162 455 39.2% 242 1,880
41 Greensboro 1,050 195 18.6% 93 2,097
  Average     74.6%   2,897
Population in thousands
Calculated from US Census Bureau data.
Metropolitan definitions as of 1990 (1990 Census)
Core urbanized area is the urbanized area of the metropolitan area's principal city.

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