How many people live within a 50 mile radius of your city?

[Yuri]

I posted a while ago:

Originally Posted by yuriandrade

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100 km radius around urban centres around the world:

AMERICA
Mexico City ------ 28,918,281
São Paulo -------- 28,194,459
New York --------- 21,180,904
Los Angeles ------ 16,747,949
Buenos Aires ----- 16,005,578
Rio de Janeiro --- 14,039,868
Bogotá ----------- 10,599,381
Chicago ---------- 10,024,549

EUROPE
London ----------- 19,664,483
Rhine-Ruhr ------- 18,071,098
Moscow ----------- 17,907,733
Istanbul --------- 15,805,839
Paris ------------ 13,958,374
Milan ------------ 11,419,061

AFRICA
Cairo ------------ 38,906,726
Lagos ------------ 17,231,437
Johannesburg ----- 12,453,677

ASIA
Dhaka ------------ 58,846,461
Calcutta --------- 47,837,685
New Delhi -------- 45,352,453
Guangzhou -------- 43,791,865
Tokyo ------------ 41,222,482
Beijing ---------- 28,985,310
Jakarta ---------- 37,570,088
Shanghai --------- 37,546,648
Manila ----------- 33,531,275
Hong Kong -------- 33,526,434
Seoul ------------ 27,239,623
Bombay ----------- 25,841,703
Hanoi ------------ 24,496,747
Chengdu ---------- 23,883,856
Tianjin ---------- 23,240,431
Nanjing ---------- 22,216,599
Wuhan ------------ 21,727,275
Osaka ------------ 21,072,740
Bangkok ---------- 20,405,398
Bangalore -------- 19,978,849
Saigon ----------- 19,600,669
Chongqing -------- 18,860,346
Xian ------------- 17,442,327
Changsha --------- 17,104,417
Shenyang --------- 16,567,371
Tehran ----------- 16,032,196
Karachi ---------- 14,860,512
Madras ----------- 14,561,889
Nagoya ----------- 13,675,550

75 km radius

AMERICA
Mexico City ------ 25,524,484
São Paulo -------- 24,270,507
New York --------- 18,562,272
Buenos Aires ----- 15,657,844
Los Angeles ------ 14,534,739
Rio de Janeiro --- 13,243,406

EUROPE
Moscow ----------- 16,627,004
London ----------- 16,184,780
Rhine-Ruhr ------- 13,729,579
Istanbul --------- 13,168,002
Paris ------------ 12,796,593

AFRICA
Cairo ------------ 29,565,960
Lagos ------------ 14,892,702
Johannesburg ----- 11,370,882

ASIA
Dhaka ------------ 41,173,026
Calcutta --------- 37,626,802
Tokyo ------------ 37,230,634
New Delhi -------- 35,655,661
Guangzhou -------- 33,707,358
Jakarta ---------- 32,376,755
Manila ----------- 28,842,947
Shanghai --------- 28,519,774
Seoul ------------ 24,764,071
Bombay ----------- 24,270,223
Beijing ---------- 23,470,451
Hong Kong -------- 21,736,359
Osaka ------------ 18,940,376
Chengdu ---------- 18,884,106
Hanoi ------------ 17,763,221
Bangkok ---------- 17,112,148
Bangalore -------- 16,396,446
Saigon ----------- 15,994,795
Tianjin ---------- 15,634,340
Tehran ----------- 15,581,252
Wuhan ------------ 15,350,276
Nanjing ---------- 15,163,540
Karachi ---------- 14,282,861
Xian ------------- 13,889,253
Chongqing -------- 13,667,671
Shenyang --------- 12,599,477
Changsha --------- 12,544,531
Madras ----------- 12,370,382
Nagoya ----------- 11,096,406

--- Many super dense rural areas are excluded with the 75km radius. Still, Asian regions are impressive;

--- US metro areas fell a lot without their exurbs. Chicago goes below 10 million. The distance between Chicago and NY/LA are much smaller then CSA numbers show.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

I noticed some major discrepancies too. I think the data is old.

I take this back. I was mistakenly entering miles in the km box, so my radii were off.

[Obadno]

Originally Posted by westak

http://www.statsamerica.org/radius/big.aspx

Phoenix 4,737,270

Probably just shy of 5,000,000 today

[Obadno]

Originally Posted by Boisebro

but that felt tiny, so I moved the slider to 475 miles and got: 22,613,649

Well then : 37,574,451

but thats not including several million people in Northern mexico

[Obadno]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

fuck.

texas really is taking over the world.

WRONG.

https://www.theonion.com/new-study-f...eni-1819579315

SYRACUSE, NY—Forecasting the continued rapid growth of the metropolitan area in the coming decades, a study published Thursday by researchers at Syracuse University has found that the majority of Earth’s landmass will be Phoenix suburbs by 2050. “Projecting present growth trends forward, we were able to determine that 35 years from now, the suburban area surrounding Phoenix, AZ will have expanded to occupy nearly 70 percent of all land on Earth, or roughly 137 million square miles across six continents,” said study co-author Grace Parsons, explaining that the entire land area of North America would be subsumed by the suburban sprawl spreading out from Scottsdale by 2030, while new subdivisions on the outskirts of Glendale and Litchfield Park would continue expanding westward, crossing the Pacific Ocean and encompassing most of Asia over the following decade.

(Also that picture of downtown is weirdly mirrored and also 15+ years old )

[dimondpark]

Meh...


Thank God for the Sierras, Great Basin, Rocky Mountains and Praries...space is good.

[lzppjb]

Austin + 50 miles (10-year growth rate)

2,332,449 (+33.6%)

[dubu]

the 30 million (or close to) population in a 500 radius from central oregon, the population could fit in six big cities that were very good with no sprawl and all be close to echother. one in nevada, a couple in oregon ect. probably way in the future thats how the future will be

[FtGreeneNY]

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[Metro-One]

I am guessing that these stats may be a little out of date (2011 census, or even 2006?)

So 100 km radius for Canadian Cities:

Toronto: 8.3 million
Montreal: 4.7 million
Vancouver: 3.2 million
Ottawa: 1.6 million
Calgary: 1.2 million
Edmonton: 1.1 million (almost 1.2)

[SlidellWx]

Louisiana population within 50 mile radius of MSA using primary city as center point:

Hammond = 2,270,510...10 year growth rate (11.0%)
New Orleans = 1,665,824...10 year growth rate (14.1%)
Houma = 1,356,844...10 year growth rate (12.4%)
Baton Rouge = 1,116,965...10 year growth rate (6.3%)
Lafayette = 721,800...10 year growth rate (5.4%)
Shreveport = 563,075...10 year growth rate (1.7%)
Lake Charles = 402,382...10 year growth rate (5.0%)
Monroe = 349,561...10 year growth rate (0.1%)
Alexandria = 344,138...10 year growth rate (-0.1%)

Biggest takeaway is that south Louisiana is where the population growth in the state is occurring. North Louisiana is seeing little to no population growth.

Houma has a large population figure as it is within 50 miles of New Orleans. Hammond is within 50 miles of both New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

[N90]

Neatto

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

I am guessing that these stats may be a little out of date (2011 census, or even 2006?)

So 100 km radius for Canadian Cities:

Toronto: 8.3 million
Montreal: 4.7 million
Vancouver: 3.2 million
Ottawa: 1.6 million
Calgary: 1.2 million
Edmonton: 1.1 million (almost 1.2)

there are about 5.1M people within a 1h drive from downtown Montréal. 10.4M people within 3hrs,

[north 42]

Originally Posted by skyscraperpage17

One thing I notice immediately is that the population in SW Ontario is missing from Detroit's numbers. Despite being in a different country, they still have as strong socio-economic linkage to the city.

When they're accounted for, Detroit's true populqtion is much bigger than 4.6 million.

There are just over half a million people on the Canadian side of the border with Detroit within 50 miles, so this would bump Detroit’s numbers to about 5.17 million.

[Laceoflight]

Originally Posted by Metro-One View Post
I am guessing that these stats may be a little out of date (2011 census, or even 2006?)

So 100 km radius for Canadian Cities:

Toronto: 8.3 million
Montreal: 4.7 million
Vancouver: 3.2 million
Ottawa: 1.6 million
Calgary: 1.2 million
Edmonton: 1.1 million (almost 1.2)

Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal

there are about 5.1M people within a 1h drive from downtown Montréal. 10.4M people within 3hrs,

Using data from the canadian census of 2016 (census tract level), the list would go as follows, within a 100km radius around each city hall (pop. in millions) :

Toronto 8.63*
Montréal 5.06*
Vancouver 3.39* (including Victoria!)
Ottawa 1.70
Calgary 1.56
Edmonton 1.46
Québec 1.18
Winnipeg 0.98
* = doesn't include a part of the radius located in the USA.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Using data from the canadian census of 2016 (census tract level), the list would go as follows, within a 100km radius around each city hall (pop. in millions) :

Toronto 8.63*
Montréal 5.06*
Vancouver 3.39* (including Victoria!)
Ottawa 1.70
Calgary 1.56
Edmonton 1.46
Québec 1.18
Winnipeg 0.98
* = doesn't include a part of the radius located in the USA.

With USA areas included in the radius, Windsor would be the second largest.

[Jonesy55]

This thread kinda reminds me of this graphic.



It's a big radius sure, 2,750 miles? But that's 50% of the entire global population, around 3,600,000,000 people!

[edale]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

I am guessing that these stats may be a little out of date (2011 census, or even 2006?)

So 100 km radius for Canadian Cities:

Toronto: 8.3 million
Montreal: 4.7 million
Vancouver: 3.2 million
Ottawa: 1.6 million
Calgary: 1.2 million
Edmonton: 1.1 million (almost 1.2)

Wow, it's shocking to see how small Vancouver is. It's 100km radius is smaller than that of Cincinnati and it's Canada's third biggest city/metro! I always forget how small Canada's cities are. They look and feel much bigger than they are, at least in their core areas.

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by edale

Wow, it's shocking to see how small Vancouver is. It's 100km radius is smaller than that of Cincinnati and it's Canada's third biggest city/metro! I always forget how small Canada's cities are. They look and feel much bigger than they are, at least in their core areas.

It also due to georgraphy, a large portion to the west is water between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, directly to the north is mountains and only a relatively thin sliver continues as a habitable valley bottom to the east and south.

So when you leave the urbanized south coast, you really leave it.

Save for a small sliver to the south connecting with Seattle, there is no continuous “bleeding” into the next major urban area.

And yes, there are hills to the south of Cincinnati, but they pale in comparison to the inhabitability and sheer size of the mountains bordering on Vancouver.

[Metro-One]

I just did Denver and it is near identical to Vancouver. 3.36 million. Compared to Vancouver’s 3.2 or 3.39 (not including the US area) numbers.

Same situation, Mountains.

Portland, Oregon is 2.6.

Salt Lake City is 2.02.

If any of these cities were plopped down in the Midwest, without changing their actual metropolitan populations, I am sure they would all increase.