CONTENTS

Population Land Area Density Change in Population

Change in Land Area Change in Density Share of Urbanized Area Change in Share

Notes & Caveats

POPULATION
Rank	Urbanized Area	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
1	New York	7,892	7,782	7,895	7,072	7,322
2	Los Angeles	1,970	2,479	2,816	2,967	3,485
3	Chicago	3,621	3,550	3,367	3,005	2,783
4	Houston	596	938	1,231	1,595	1,630
5	Philadelphia	2,072	2,003	1,949	1,688	1,586
6	Dallas-Fort Worth	713	1,036	1,238	1,289	1,455
7	San Diego	334	573	694	847	1,111
8	San Francisco-Oakland	1,160	1,108	1,077	1,018	1,096
9	Detroit	1,850	1,670	1,511	1,203	1,028
10	Phoenix	106	439	582	790	983
11	San Antonio	408	588	654	786	936
12	San Jose	95	204	444	629	782
13	Baltimore	950	939	906	787	736
14	Minneapolis-St. Paul	833	796	744	641	640
15	Milwaukee	637	741	717	636	628
16	Washington	802	764	757	638	607
17	Boston	801	697	641	563	574
18	Tampa-St. Petersburg	319	457	494	510	519
19	Seattle	468	557	530	494	516
20	Cleveland	915	876	751	574	506
21	New Orleans	570	628	591	557	497
22	Denver	416	494	515	492	468
23	Kansas City	457	476	502	446	435
24	Portland	374	373	383	366	427
25	St. Louis	857	750	622	453	397
26	Atlanta	331	487	497	425	394
27	Pittsburgh	677	604	520	424	370
28	Sacramento	138	192	254	276	369
29	Cincinnati	504	503	453	385	364
30	Miami	249	292	335	347	359
31	Buffalo	580	533	463	358	328
32	Norfolk	294	306	308	267	261
33	Riverside-San Bernardino	63	176	244	288	164
34	Fort Lauderdale	---	119	140	153	149
LAND AREA
Rank	Urbanized Area	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
1	Dallas-Fort Worth	206	421	471	573	586
2	Houston	160	328	397	556	571
3	Los Angeles	451	455	464	466	469
4	San Antonio	70	161	184	263	333
5	San Diego	99	192	213	268	324
6	New York	302	302	302	302	309
7	Phoenix	17	187	248	283	283
8	Kansas City	81	130	221	221	229
9	Chicago	208	224	224	227	227
10	San Jose	17	55	116	158	171
11	Tampa-St. Petersburg	123	139	139	139	168
12	Detroit	139	139	139	139	139
13	Philadelphia	127	127	129	135	135
14	Riverside-San Bernardino	20	66	116	125	133
15	Atlanta	37	128	132	132	132
16	Portland	64	67	89	103	125
17	Denver	62	62	95	111	111
18	Minneapolis-St. Paul	107	107	107	107	108
19	San Francisco-Oakland	98	100	100	100	103
20	Sacramento	17	42	94	96	96
21	Milwaukee	50	91	95	96	96
22	New Orleans	86	86	86	87	87
23	Seattle	71	84	84	84	84
24	Baltimore	80	80	80	80	81
25	Cincinnati	75	77	77	77	77
26	Cleveland	75	76	76	77	77
27	St. Louis	61	61	61	61	62
28	Washington	61	61	61	61	61
29	Pittsburgh	54	54	55	55	56
30	Norfolk	38	50	53	53	54
31	Boston	47	47	47	47	48
32	Buffalo	39	39	41	41	41
33	Miami	34	34	34	34	36
34	Fort Lauderdale	---	29	29	29	31
DENSITY
Rank	Urbanized Area	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
1	New York	26,132	25,768	26,142	23,417	23,703
2	Chicago	17,409	15,848	15,031	13,226	12,249
3	Boston	17,043	14,830	13,638	11,979	11,860
4	Philadelphia	16,315	15,772	15,109	12,494	11,739
5	San Francisco-Oakland	11,837	11,080	10,770	10,180	10,661
6	Miami	7,324	8,588	9,853	10,206	10,084
7	Washington	13,148	12,525	12,410	10,459	9,886
8	Baltimore	11,875	11,738	11,325	9,838	9,109
9	Buffalo	14,872	13,667	11,404	8,818	8,079
10	Los Angeles	4,368	5,448	6,069	6,367	7,426
11	Detroit	13,338	12,040	10,894	8,673	7,412
12	Pittsburgh	12,537	11,185	9,455	7,709	6,655
13	Cleveland	12,200	11,526	9,882	7,455	6,571
14	Milwaukee	12,740	8,143	7,547	6,625	6,535
15	St. Louis	14,049	12,295	10,197	7,426	6,414
16	Seattle	6,592	6,639	6,317	5,888	6,150
17	Minneapolis-St. Paul	7,785	7,439	6,953	5,991	5,942
18	New Orleans	6,628	7,302	6,872	6,373	5,686
19	Norfolk	7,737	6,120	5,811	5,038	4,851
20	Fort Lauderdale	---	4,103	4,828	5,276	4,745
21	Cincinnati	6,720	6,532	5,868	4,987	4,715
22	San Jose	5,588	3,709	3,828	3,981	4,565
23	Denver	6,710	7,968	5,421	4,432	4,216
24	Sacramento	8,118	4,571	2,702	2,875	3,832
25	Phoenix	6,235	2,348	2,347	2,791	3,472
26	San Diego	3,374	2,984	3,258	3,160	3,429
27	Portland	5,844	5,567	4,303	3,553	3,424
28	Tampa-St. Petersburg	2,593	3,288	3,554	3,669	3,091
29	Atlanta	8,946	3,805	3,771	3,225	2,989
30	Houston	3,725	2,860	3,101	2,869	2,854
31	San Antonio	5,829	3,652	3,554	2,989	2,811
32	Dallas-Fort Worth	3,461	2,461	2,628	2,250	2,484
33	Kansas City	5,642	3,662	2,271	2,018	1,896
34	Riverside-San Bernardino	3,150	2,667	2,103	2,304	1,235
CHANGE IN POPULATION
Rank	Urbanized Area	1950-1990	1950-1960	1960-1970	1970-1980	1980-1990
1	Phoenix	827.4%	314.2%	32.6%	35.7%	24.4%
2	San Jose	723.2%	114.7%	117.6%	41.7%	24.3%
3	San Diego	232.6%	71.6%	21.1%	22.0%	31.2%
4	Houston	173.5%	57.4%	31.2%	29.6%	2.2%
5	Sacramento	167.4%	39.1%	32.3%	8.7%	33.7%
6	Riverside-San Bernardino	160.3%	179.4%	38.6%	18.0%	-43.1%
7	San Antonio	129.4%	44.1%	11.2%	20.2%	19.1%
8	Dallas-Fort Worth	104.1%	45.3%	19.5%	4.1%	12.9%
9	Los Angeles	76.9%	25.8%	13.6%	5.4%	17.5%
10	Tampa-St. Petersburg	62.7%	43.3%	8.1%	3.2%	1.8%
11	Miami	44.2%	17.3%	14.7%	3.6%	3.5%
12	Atlanta	19.0%	47.1%	2.1%	-14.5%	-7.3%
13	Portland	14.2%	-0.3%	2.7%	-4.4%	16.7%
14	Denver	12.5%	18.8%	4.3%	-4.5%	-4.9%
15	Seattle	10.3%	19.0%	-4.8%	-6.8%	4.5%
16	Milwaukee	-1.4%	16.3%	-3.2%	-11.3%	-1.3%
17	Kansas City	-4.8%	4.2%	5.5%	-11.2%	-2.5%
18	San Francisco-Oakland	-5.5%	-4.5%	-2.8%	-5.5%	7.7%
19	New York	-7.2%	-1.4%	1.5%	-10.4%	3.5%
20	Norfolk	-11.2%	4.1%	0.7%	-13.3%	-2.2%
21	New Orleans	-12.8%	10.2%	-5.9%	-5.8%	-10.8%
22	Baltimore	-22.5%	-1.2%	-3.5%	-13.1%	-6.5%
23	Chicago	-23.1%	-2.0%	-5.2%	-10.8%	-7.4%
24	Minneapolis-St. Paul	-23.2%	-4.4%	-6.5%	-13.8%	-0.2%
25	Philadelphia	-23.5%	-3.3%	-2.7%	-13.4%	-6.0%
26	Washington	-24.3%	-4.7%	-0.9%	-15.7%	-4.9%
27	Cincinnati	-27.8%	-0.2%	-9.9%	-15.0%	-5.5%
28	Boston	-28.3%	-13.0%	-8.0%	-12.2%	2.0%
29	Buffalo	-43.4%	-8.1%	-13.1%	-22.7%	-8.4%
30	Detroit	-44.4%	-9.7%	-9.5%	-20.4%	-14.5%
31	Cleveland	-44.7%	-4.3%	-14.3%	-23.6%	-11.8%
32	Pittsburgh	-45.3%	-10.8%	-13.9%	-18.5%	-12.7%
33	St. Louis	-53.7%	-12.5%	-17.1%	-27.2%	-12.4%
34	Fort Lauderdale	---	---	17.6%	9.3%	-2.6%
CHANGE: LAND AREA
Rank	Urbanized Area	1950-1990	1950-1960	1960-1970	1970-1980	1980-1990
1	Phoenix	1565.3%	1000.0%	32.6%	14.2%	0.0%
2	San Jose	907.6%	223.5%	110.9%	36.2%	8.4%
3	Riverside-San Bernardino	564.0%	230.0%	75.8%	7.8%	6.2%
4	Sacramento	466.5%	147.1%	123.8%	2.1%	0.3%
5	San Antonio	375.7%	130.0%	14.3%	42.9%	26.6%
6	Houston	257.0%	105.0%	21.0%	40.1%	2.7%
7	Atlanta	256.2%	245.9%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%
8	San Diego	227.3%	93.9%	10.9%	25.8%	20.9%
9	Dallas-Fort Worth	184.3%	104.4%	11.9%	21.7%	2.2%
10	Kansas City	183.2%	60.5%	70.0%	0.0%	3.8%
11	Portland	94.8%	4.7%	32.8%	15.7%	21.1%
12	Milwaukee	92.2%	82.0%	4.4%	1.1%	0.1%
13	Denver	79.0%	0.0%	53.2%	16.8%	0.0%
14	Norfolk	41.6%	31.6%	6.0%	0.0%	1.5%
15	Tampa-St. Petersburg	36.5%	13.0%	0.0%	0.0%	20.8%
16	Seattle	18.2%	18.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
17	Chicago	9.2%	7.7%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%
18	Philadelphia	6.4%	0.0%	1.6%	4.7%	0.0%
19	San Francisco-Oakland	4.9%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.8%
20	Miami	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.7%
21	Buffalo	4.1%	0.0%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%
22	Los Angeles	4.1%	0.9%	2.0%	0.4%	0.7%
23	Boston	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.0%
24	Pittsburgh	3.0%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	1.1%
25	Cincinnati	2.9%	2.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
26	Cleveland	2.7%	1.3%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%
27	New York	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%
28	New Orleans	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%
29	St. Louis	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
30	Baltimore	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
31	Washington	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
32	Minneapolis-St. Paul	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
33	Detroit	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
34	Fort Lauderdale	---	---	0.0%	0.0%	8.3%
CHANGE: DENSITY
Rank	Urbanized Area	1950-1990	1950-1960	1960-1970	1970-1980	1980-1990
1	Los Angeles	70.0%	24.7%	11.4%	4.9%	16.6%
2	Miami	37.7%	17.3%	14.7%	3.6%	-1.2%
3	Tampa-St. Petersburg	19.2%	26.8%	8.1%	3.2%	-15.8%
4	San Diego	1.6%	-11.5%	9.2%	-3.0%	8.5%
5	Seattle	-6.7%	0.7%	-4.8%	-6.8%	4.5%
6	New York	-9.3%	-1.4%	1.5%	-10.4%	1.2%
7	San Francisco-Oakland	-9.9%	-6.4%	-2.8%	-5.5%	4.7%
8	New Orleans	-14.2%	10.2%	-5.9%	-7.3%	-10.8%
9	San Jose	-18.3%	-33.6%	3.2%	4.0%	14.7%
10	Baltimore	-23.3%	-1.2%	-3.5%	-13.1%	-7.4%
11	Houston	-23.4%	-23.2%	8.4%	-7.5%	-0.5%
12	Minneapolis-St. Paul	-23.7%	-4.4%	-6.5%	-13.8%	-0.8%
13	Washington	-24.8%	-4.7%	-0.9%	-15.7%	-5.5%
14	Philadelphia	-28.0%	-3.3%	-4.2%	-17.3%	-6.0%
15	Dallas-Fort Worth	-28.2%	-28.9%	6.8%	-14.4%	10.4%
16	Chicago	-29.6%	-9.0%	-5.2%	-12.0%	-7.4%
17	Cincinnati	-29.8%	-2.8%	-10.2%	-15.0%	-5.5%
18	Boston	-30.4%	-13.0%	-8.0%	-12.2%	-1.0%
19	Denver	-37.2%	18.8%	-32.0%	-18.2%	-4.9%
20	Norfolk	-37.3%	-20.9%	-5.0%	-13.3%	-3.7%
21	Portland	-41.4%	-4.7%	-22.7%	-17.4%	-3.6%
22	Phoenix	-44.3%	-62.3%	-0.0%	18.9%	24.4%
23	Detroit	-44.4%	-9.7%	-9.5%	-20.4%	-14.5%
24	Buffalo	-45.7%	-8.1%	-16.6%	-22.7%	-8.4%
25	Cleveland	-46.1%	-5.5%	-14.3%	-24.6%	-11.8%
26	Pittsburgh	-46.9%	-10.8%	-15.5%	-18.5%	-13.7%
27	Milwaukee	-48.7%	-36.1%	-7.3%	-12.2%	-1.4%
28	San Antonio	-51.8%	-37.3%	-2.7%	-15.9%	-5.9%
29	Sacramento	-52.8%	-43.7%	-40.9%	6.4%	33.3%
30	St. Louis	-54.3%	-12.5%	-17.1%	-27.2%	-13.6%
31	Riverside-San Bernardino	-60.8%	-15.3%	-21.1%	9.5%	-46.4%
32	Kansas City	-66.4%	-35.1%	-38.0%	-11.2%	-6.0%
33	Atlanta	-66.6%	-57.5%	-0.9%	-14.5%	-7.3%
34	Fort Lauderdale	---	---	17.6%	9.3%	-10.1%
PORTION OF U.A.
Rank	Urbanized Area	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
1	San Antonio	90.7%	91.6%	84.6%	83.2%	82.9%
2	Houston	85.0%	82.3%	73.4%	66.1%	56.2%
3	San Jose	54.0%	33.8%	43.3%	50.6%	54.5%
4	Milwaukee	76.8%	64.4%	57.3%	52.7%	51.2%
5	Phoenix	49.1%	79.5%	67.4%	56.1%	49.0%
6	New Orleans	86.4%	74.3%	61.4%	51.7%	47.8%
7	San Diego	77.1%	68.5%	57.9%	49.7%	47.3%
8	New York	64.2%	55.1%	48.7%	45.4%	45.6%
9	Dallas-Fort Worth	83.4%	72.2%	61.4%	52.6%	45.5%
10	Chicago	73.6%	59.6%	50.1%	44.3%	41.0%
11	Baltimore	81.8%	66.2%	57.3%	44.8%	38.9%
12	Philadelphia	70.9%	55.1%	48.5%	41.1%	37.6%
13	Portland	72.9%	57.2%	46.4%	35.7%	36.4%
14	Buffalo	64.8%	50.6%	42.6%	35.7%	34.4%
15	Kansas City	65.5%	51.7%	45.6%	40.6%	34.1%
16	Sacramento	65.1%	42.5%	39.6%	34.7%	33.6%
17	Denver	83.4%	61.4%	49.2%	36.4%	30.8%
18	Minneapolis-St. Paul	84.4%	57.8%	43.7%	35.9%	30.8%
19	Los Angeles	49.3%	38.2%	33.7%	31.3%	30.6%
20	Tampa-St. Petersburg	78.2%	72.9%	57.2%	37.7%	30.4%
21	San Francisco-Oakland	57.4%	45.6%	36.0%	31.9%	30.2%
22	Cleveland	66.1%	49.1%	38.3%	32.8%	30.2%
23	Cincinnati	62.0%	50.6%	40.8%	34.3%	30.0%
24	Seattle	75.2%	64.5%	42.8%	35.5%	29.6%
25	Detroit	67.2%	44.7%	38.1%	31.6%	27.8%
26	Pittsburgh	44.2%	33.5%	28.2%	23.4%	22.1%
27	Boston	35.9%	28.9%	24.2%	21.0%	20.7%
28	St. Louis	61.2%	45.0%	33.0%	24.5%	20.4%
29	Norfolk	76.4%	60.2%	46.1%	34.7%	19.7%
30	Miami	54.2%	34.2%	27.5%	21.6%	18.7%
31	Atlanta	65.3%	63.4%	42.4%	26.3%	18.3%
32	Washington	62.3%	42.3%	30.5%	23.1%	18.0%
33	Riverside-San Bernardino	46.3%	46.6%	41.8%	40.9%	14.0%
34	Fort Lauderdale	---	37.2%	22.8%	15.2%	12.0%
CHANGE IN PORTION
Rank	Urbanized Area	1950-1990	1950-1960	1960-1970	1970-1980	1980-1990
1	San Jose	1.0%	-37.3%	28.0%	16.7%	7.8%
2	Phoenix	-0.1%	62.1%	-15.2%	-16.9%	-12.6%
3	San Antonio	-8.6%	1.0%	-7.6%	-1.7%	-0.3%
4	Milwaukee	-33.3%	-16.1%	-11.1%	-8.0%	-2.8%
5	Houston	-33.9%	-3.2%	-10.8%	-9.9%	-15.1%
6	San Diego	-38.7%	-11.1%	-15.5%	-14.2%	-4.8%
7	Boston	-42.3%	-19.5%	-16.4%	-13.0%	-1.6%
8	Chicago	-44.3%	-19.0%	-15.8%	-11.6%	-7.6%
9	New Orleans	-44.7%	-13.9%	-17.3%	-15.9%	-7.5%
10	Dallas-Fort Worth	-45.4%	-13.4%	-14.9%	-14.4%	-13.5%
11	Buffalo	-46.9%	-22.0%	-15.8%	-16.1%	-3.8%
12	Philadelphia	-47.0%	-22.3%	-12.0%	-15.3%	-8.5%
13	San Francisco-Oakland	-47.4%	-20.6%	-20.9%	-11.5%	-5.4%
14	Kansas City	-47.9%	-21.1%	-11.9%	-10.8%	-16.0%
15	Sacramento	-48.3%	-34.7%	-6.7%	-12.5%	-3.0%
16	Portland	-50.0%	-21.5%	-18.9%	-23.2%	2.1%
17	Pittsburgh	-50.1%	-24.2%	-15.9%	-16.8%	-5.9%
18	Cincinnati	-51.6%	-18.4%	-19.4%	-15.9%	-12.4%
19	Baltimore	-52.4%	-19.1%	-13.3%	-21.8%	-13.2%
20	Cleveland	-54.4%	-25.8%	-21.9%	-14.5%	-7.9%
21	Detroit	-58.6%	-33.5%	-14.8%	-17.0%	-12.0%
22	Seattle	-60.7%	-14.3%	-33.6%	-17.1%	-16.6%
23	Tampa-St. Petersburg	-61.2%	-6.8%	-21.5%	-34.1%	-19.4%
24	Denver	-63.0%	-26.3%	-19.9%	-26.0%	-15.3%
25	Minneapolis-St. Paul	-63.5%	-31.5%	-24.3%	-18.0%	-14.2%
26	Miami	-65.4%	-36.9%	-19.8%	-21.4%	-13.1%
27	St. Louis	-66.7%	-26.5%	-26.5%	-25.8%	-16.8%
28	Riverside-San Bernardino	-69.7%	0.5%	-10.3%	-2.2%	-65.7%
29	Washington	-71.0%	-32.2%	-27.8%	-24.3%	-21.8%
30	Atlanta	-72.0%	-2.9%	-33.1%	-37.9%	-30.7%
31	Norfolk	-74.2%	-21.1%	-23.5%	-24.8%	-43.1%
32	Fort Lauderdale	---	---	-38.7%	-33.4%	-20.7%