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Can you name the 10 most densely populated US cities over 250,000 people?

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Source: U.S. Census Data

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Population per Square Mile	US City	Total Population
26,821.3		8,175,133
17,179.2		805,235
12,792.7		617,594
12,094.7		324,528
11,841.8		2,695,598
11,458.3		277,140
11,379.5		1,526,006
11,135.9		399,457
9,856.5		601,723
9,191.2		462,257

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Most Densely Populated US Cities Quiz

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Created Apr 26, 2011 in Geography
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	nick5:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 04:26 GMT		19 points
	how many sporclers per square mile do each of these cities have? :)

	jwillard:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 04:28 GMT		23 points
	The url and quiz title don't match. It shouldn't bug me, but it does.

	MasterNachosII:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 04:30 GMT		15 points
	I would have thought ProviDENSE, RI would be on here...

	pfrijiritr:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 04:37 GMT		11 points
	Yeah, the main reason Los Angeles, the major Texas cities, and Jacksonville, FL have their population sizes is because they had a large amount of land (usually from annexation).

	Dralcoffin:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 04:44 GMT		12 points
	Jersey City would be a close third behind San Francisco at 16,736.3 ppsm, but is a mere 2,400 people shy of the cutoff.

	ElisDaddy:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 05:30 GMT		5 points
	It's really New York, then San Francisco, then everywhere else in a more continuous distribution. This makes it seem even stranger to me that I don't feel at all intimidated by San Francisco the way I do by New York.

	adamnvillani:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 05:38 GMT		15 points
	That's because when you hear "New York," you're thinking Manhattan, where the density is a lot higher -- 70,951. San Francisco's density is a little less than that of Queens borough.

	Dralcoffin:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 05:43 GMT		4 points
	@MasterNachosII: Providence has a density of 9,623.9 ppsm, just enough to make this list. However, the city has a population of 178,042. @pfrijiritr: The next city that would have made this list would have been Los Angeles (8,091.8).

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	AriesLA:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 08:36 GMT		3 points
	Maybe I should move back to the LBC to get us up that chart ! Doesn't seem so crowded when you're from there.

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	Paulici87:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 14:10 GMT		2 points
	Dang! I didn't see S.A. coming...

	Zak6009:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 15:01 GMT		-3 points
	Long Beach, okay, you got me. But where the bork is Santa Ana and why is it swimming in a sporcle quiz full of common answers.

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	Rob42:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 19:39 GMT		1 point
	Excellent and fun quiz. I kept guessing northeast cities, and therefore was very surprised to see no less than THREE Californian cities on the list. San Francisco doesn't surprise me, but the other two does.....

	transitfan:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 21:34 GMT		2 points
	I really want to see densest cities under 250,000, which will be much trickier. Some smaller cities (ie Somerville, MA) will be surprisingly dense since they are mostly residential.

	gigimacmurray:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 22:01 GMT		-1 points
	Hey, here's one, where do most of the Sporcler regulars live? My city was in one of the dense spots. I agree.

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	PK9:	Jan 30th, 2012 at 18:17 GMT		1 point
	I was surprised about LA not being on this list, because I figured most of the city proper was block after block of urban residents, but it turns out that the city limits also include a large portion of hills around the San Fernando Valley which are sparsely populated.

	ianbob:	Jan 30th, 2012 at 20:22 GMT		3 points
	Santa Ana has a huge Hispanic/Latino population. Its persons per household figures are among the highest in the nation, at around 4.7 pphh.

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	munga:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 16:56 GMT		1 point
	I thought Davy Crockett stabbed Santa Ana with Jim Bowie's knife near the town named for Sam Houston?

	lood1234:	Feb 4th, 2012 at 00:54 GMT		4 points
	New York is really not a surprise, and San Francisco shouldn't be either if you've ever been there. Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia, and Washington are all cities well known for being urban centers. Newark is kinda like a mini-New York, just with lower buildings. Santa Ana and Long Beach are suburbs of Los Angeles, part of a densely populated metropolitan area. The reason Los Angeles is not on here is because it's HUGE, area wise. Along with a dense downtown area, it also includes surrounding suburbs and even a few parks that really decrease overall population density. Miami I'm not familiar with, but since it's the most well known city in Florida, I just got it as a random guess.

	gameboyguy13:	Feb 4th, 2012 at 22:21 GMT		3 points
	@lood1234 Miami is in part dense because of geography - it's a comparatively narrow strip between the Everglades and the Atlantic.

	BostonMatt:	Jan 23rd, 2013 at 16:57 GMT		2 points
	I wonder how much higher Boston's would be if all the students (who live there a lot of the time, but typically aren't "residents" so don't count for population purposes) were counted.

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