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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Actually, going by those numbers, Hudson has rights to being NYC's 5th borough, and Staten island should be demoted to 6th 
To its credit, cook county is the first one on that list that includes a GIGANTIC amount of suburbia along with the central city. The others above it are all "city counties" (or subsets thereof in the case of NYC) or pretty damn small, relatively speaking (Arlington, Essex, etc.) |
I'd love to know the weighted density for the urban core of Chicagoland: the area bounded by the north side of Evanston, then Dempster St north of Skokie to I-294 and following the TriState Tollway all the way to Indiana. This is pretty much the rectangular grid part of Cook County.
But that would be a very lengthy calculation, far more than just running census tract queries.
Edit: Actually, I can pull all of the Cook County tracts into a spreadsheet and use the map to pull out tracts for specific municipalities. The tracts align exactly with the townships of Cook County, and the city of Chicago is a township equivalent. If I trim off the townships one by one, I can calculate their WPDs and when finished, the remaining tracts will be Chicago itself. Stay tuned...
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