The urban revival has passed most Americans by. White, college-educated young adults with no school-age children are more likely to live in highly concentrated urban neighborhoods than in the past, but others aren’t. But many other metro areas like Oklahoma City, San Antonio and Austin, Texas, spread out, with much faster growth in their exurbs and on the outer edges of their regions.įurthermore, downtown development prices some people out. In some places, average density increased significantly because of development in and near big-city downtowns like Seattle and Atlanta. The past decade’s increase in density was uneven across both places and people. (A census tract consists of approximately 1,500 households.) But much of the land is essentially unpopulated, while half of households live in census tracts with at least 900 households per square mile, with the average neighborhood density now above 2,450 households per square mile. About half of the population of Alaska lives in the Anchorage metropolitan area. Idaho 's population has increased rapidly in recent decades, but its population density is lower than other states. Alaska only has 1.28 people per square mile, which is the lowest among all the states. In the US, the District of Columbia has the most residents per square mile.
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Despite a small population, Vermont has fairly average population density because of its small area. US Population Density by States Report 2022 Population Density means the number of people per unit of geographic area. If we could imagine the population of the United States spread evenly across its landmass, there would be 36 households per square mile. Washington is 22nd in density among the states. That’s because nearly all of Nevada’s population lives in the two counties containing Las Vegas and Reno, so the average Nevadan lives in a denser neighborhood than the average Connecticut resident. For instance, Connecticut is one of the densest states measured conventionally, but Nevada has a higher weighted density. At United States Population Density Map page, view political map of United States, physical maps, USA states map, satellite images photos and where is United States location in World map.
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Known as weighted density, this measure is less skewed by unpopulated land area than conventional density measures are.
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These national and metro figures are the average neighborhood density that households experience.