ChiSoxRox has spent a bunch of work calculating weighted population densities (WPD) by census tract for all of the nation's MSAs over 1M people over in the general census results thread in city discussions.
The overall good news is that most MSAs got denser over the past decade. The even better news locally is that Chicago's MSA actually increased in weighted population density for the first time since at least 1950!
2010 Chicago MSA WPD: 8,613 ppsm
2020 Chicago MSA WPD: 9,012 ppsm
Change: +399 ppsm (+4.6%)
This is the result of the combined forces of very strong core growth in the city's central area and a massive slowdown in new sprawl development on the exurban fringe following the great recession
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Last edited by Steely Dan; Aug 29, 2021 at 3:49 PM.
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