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I put in the effort to get to #50 today so we can get Honolulu on the list. It's a bit of a stand-out.

MSAs by weighted population density: #51 - #100 by population

Honolulu.....12,581.9
Oxnard.....5,693.2
Bridgeport.....5,620.4
Stockton.....5,462.7
Madison.....4,833.8
Fresno.....4,518.4
Bakersfield.....4,438.8
New Haven.....4,208.3
Provo.....4,201.0
Allentown.....4,087.5
El Paso.....3,967.0
Albuquerque.....3,635.2
Colorado Springs.....3,345.5
Tucson.....3,285.2
Omaha.....3,275.4
Springfield, MA.....3,271.4
Worcester.....3,150.8
Ogden.....3,111.8
Scranton.....3,087.4
Albany.....3,031.8
Boise.....2,972.9
Rochester.....2,948.2
Spokane.....2,825.8
Syracuse.....2,822.3
Poughkeepsie.....2,808.6
Toledo.....2,655.7
Sarasota.....2,596.3
Harrisburg.....2,561.3
McAllen.....2,543.6
Palm Bay.....2,413.7
Grand Rapids.....2,413.3
Des Moines.....2,357.2
Akron.....2,346.7
Dayton.....2,326.5
Cape Coral.....2,270.5
Wichita.....2,260.7
Tulsa.....2,167.3
Charleston, SC.....1,986.1
Daytona Beach.....1,930.0
Durham.....1,905.6
Lakeland.....1,730.0
Greensboro.....1,700.1
Baton Rouge.....1,653.6
Columbia, SC.....1,521.5
Little Rock.....1,455.1
Knoxville.....1,373.2
Greenville.....1,289.5
Augusta, GA.....1,162.3
Winston-Salem.....1,146.7
Jackson, MS.....1,083.5

My tentative plan is #31-50 tomorrow, #11-30 on Friday, top 10 on Saturday.

Poor Jackson, Mississippi. It has the most shrunken city proper over 100k last decade, and almost certainly the sparsest of the top 100 metros as well.

Originally Posted by yuriandrade

A random comment: since 2010 Census we have discussions about Los Angeles crossing the 4 million barrier. Given the utter bizarre shape of LA city proper, the whole thing is meaningless.

Maybe the focus should be on how LA County crossed the 10 million mark.

IMO, LA city limits look like an elephant's head. The San Fernando Valley is the ear, downtown is the face, the Venice to airport coast is the neck, and the 110 corridor is the trunk down to San Pedro being the curl at the end. Dodger Stadium can even be the eye.