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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I'm extremely confident that you can find a contiguous area of 141 miles and 1 million people in Metro Detroit. It would require excluding some of the depopulated areas inside the city of Detroit and combining some of the inner ring suburbs, but I'm certain you can get there.
Keep in mind that as much as 40 square miles of Detroit's land is vacant, so if you just add populated areas of Detroit, the enclave of Hamtramck, and Detroit's two largest bordering suburbs you get pretty close to 1 million in 159 square miles by subtracting 40 from Detroit's official land area. If you did this by census tract, it would be pretty straightforward to get there.
Detroit: 639,111
Warren, MI: 139,387
Dearborn, MI: 109,976
Hamtramck, MI: 28,433
Total pop.: 916,907
Estimated occupied land area: 159 square miles
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Detroit isn't picking another +100k residents in 20 less sq/mi after Warren already cancels out the cities most dilapidated 24-40 sq/mi of land.
Baltimore
Baltimore - 585,708 / 80.95 sq/mi
Dundalk - 67,796 / 13.09 sq/mi
Towson - 59, 553 / 14.15 sq/mi
Catonsville - 44,701 / 13.96 sq/mi
Woodlawn - 39,986 / 9.54 sq/mi
Pikesville - 34,168 / 12.35 sq/mi
Parkville - 31,812 / 4.29 sq/mi
Millford Mill - 30,622 / 6.95 sq/mi
Lochern - 25,511 / 5.59 sq/mi
Total Population: 941,512
Land Area: 160.87
Thats with no gerrymandering and including all vacant land, park space/forest, industrial, port, etc.
Detroit isn't as dense as Baltimore, not because Baltimore is "bigger" but because it's lost 2/3rds of it's population.
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