United States:
Urbanized Areas & Core Cities:
1950 to 2000

POPULATION		1950				2000
Urbanized Area	Urbanized Area	Core City	Suburbs		Urbanized Area	Core City	Suburbs
Atlanta	507	331	176		3,500	416	3,084
Baltimore	1,162	950	212		2,076	651	1,425
Boston	2,233	801	1,432		4,032	589	3,443
Buffalo	895	580	315		977	293	684
Chicago	4,921	3,621	1,300		8,308	2,896	5,412
Cincinnati	813	504	309		1,503	331	1,172
Cleveland	1,384	915	469		1,787	478	1,309
Columbus	438	375	63		1,133	711	422
Dallas-Fort Worth	855	713	142		4,146	1,724	2,422
Denver	499	416	83		1,984	555	1,429
Detroit	2,752	1,850	902		3,903	951	2,952
Houston	701	596	105		3,822	1,954	1,868
Indianapolis	502	427	75		1,219	782	437
Kansas City	698	457	241		1,362	442	920
Las Vegas	40	24	16		1,314	478	836
Los Angeles	3,997	1,970	2,027		11,789	3,695	8,094
Miami	459	249	210		4,919	362	4,557
Milwaukee	829	637	192		1,309	597	712
Minneapolis-St. Paul	987	833	154		2,389	670	1,719
New Orleans	660	570	90		1,009	485	524
New York	12,296	7,892	4,404		17,800	8,008	9,792
Norfolk	385	294	91		1,394	234	1,160
Orlando	73	52	21		1,157	186	971
Philadelphia	2,922	2,072	850		5,149	1,518	3,631
Phoenix	216	106	110		2,907	1,321	1,586
Pittsburgh	1,533	677	856		1,753	335	1,418
Portland	513	374	139		1,583	529	1,054
Providence	583	249	334		1,175	174	1,001
Riverside-San Bernardino	136	63	73		1,507	441	1,066
Sacramento	212	138	74		1,393	407	986
San Antonio	450	408	42		1,327	1,145	182
San Diego	433	334	99		2,674	1,223	1,451
San Francisco-Oakland	2,022	1,160	862		3,228	1,176	2,052
San Jose	176	95	81		1,538	894	644
Seattle	790	612	178		2,712	563	2,149
St. Louis	1,401	857	544		2,077	348	1,729
Tampa-St. Petersburg	408	319	89		2,062	541	1,521
Washington	1,287	802	485		3,934	572	3,362
San Juan, Puerto Rico	466	357	109		2,217	434	1,783
Total	51,634	33,681	17,953		120,068	39,109	80,959
Change					68434	5,428	63006
Share of Growth						7.1%	92.9%
Core Cities Annexing	12,634	8,524	4,110		49,305	17,893	31,412
Change					36,671	9,369	27,302
Share of Growth						25.5%	74.5%
Core Cities Not Annexing	39,599	25,608	13,991		70,763	21,216	49,547
Change					31,164	(4,392)	35,556
Share of Growth						-14.1%	114.1%
CHANGE IN POPULATION
Urban Area	Urbanized Area	Core City	Suburbs		Urbanized Area	Core City	Suburbs
Atlanta	2,993	85	2,908		590.3%	25.7%	1652.3%
Baltimore	914	(299)	1,213		78.7%	-31.5%	572.2%
Boston	1,799	(212)	2,011		80.6%	-26.5%	140.4%
Buffalo	82	(287)	369		9.2%	-49.5%	117.1%
Chicago	3,387	(725)	4,112		68.8%	-20.0%	316.3%
Cincinnati	690	(173)	863		84.9%	-34.3%	279.3%
Cleveland	403	(437)	840		29.1%	-47.8%	179.1%
Columbus	695	336	359		158.7%	89.6%	569.8%
Dallas-Fort Worth	3,291	1,011	2,280		384.9%	141.8%	1605.6%
Denver	1,485	139	1,346		297.6%	33.4%	1621.7%
Detroit	1,151	(899)	2,050		41.8%	-48.6%	227.3%
Houston	3,121	1,358	1,763		445.2%	227.9%	1679.0%
Indianapolis	717	355	362		142.8%	83.1%	482.7%
Kansas City	664	(15)	679		95.1%	-3.3%	281.7%
Las Vegas	675	2	673		105.6%	0.4%	412.9%
Los Angeles	7,792	1,725	6,067		194.9%	87.6%	299.3%
Miami	4,460	113	4,347		971.7%	45.4%	2070.0%
Milwaukee	480	(40)	520		57.9%	-6.3%	270.8%
Minneapolis-St. Paul	1,402	(163)	1,565		142.0%	-19.6%	1016.2%
New Orleans	349	(85)	434		52.9%	-14.9%	482.2%
New York	5,504	116	5,388		44.8%	1.5%	122.3%
Norfolk	1,009	(60)	1,069		262.1%	-20.4%	1174.7%
Orlando	1,084	134	950		1484.9%	257.7%	4523.8%
Philadelphia	2,227	(554)	2,781		76.2%	-26.7%	327.2%
Phoenix	2,691	1,215	1,476		1245.8%	1146.2%	1341.8%
Pittsburgh	220	(342)	562		14.4%	-50.5%	65.7%
Portland	1,070	155	915		208.6%	41.4%	658.3%
Providence	592	(75)	667		101.5%	-30.1%	199.7%
Riverside-San Bernardino	1,371	378	993		1008.1%	600.0%	1360.3%
Sacramento	1,181	269	912		557.1%	194.9%	1232.4%
San Antonio	877	737	140		194.9%	180.6%	333.3%
San Diego	2,241	889	1,352		517.6%	266.2%	1365.7%
San Francisco-Oakland	1,206	16	1,190		59.6%	1.4%	138.1%
San Jose	1,362	799	563		773.9%	841.1%	695.1%
Seattle	1,922	(49)	1,971		243.3%	-8.0%	1107.3%
St. Louis	676	(509)	1,185		48.3%	-59.4%	217.8%
Tampa-St. Petersburg	1,654	222	1,432		405.4%	69.6%	1609.0%
Washington	2,647	(230)	2,877		205.7%	-28.7%	593.2%
San Juan, Puerto Rico	1,751	77	1,674		375.8%	21.6%	1535.8%
Total	67,835	4,977	62,858		129.9%	14.6%	347.3%
Notes
In 000s
Urbanized areas achieving 1,000,000 population between 1950 and 2000
San Juan 1950 figure is for metropolitan area
Las Vegas 1950 figure estimated by Demographia
Source
United States Bureau of the Census