Can you name the largest suburbs by population in the United States? by smekeldorfed

Can you name the largest suburbs by population in the United States?

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Population	Suburb	Anchor City of Metro Area
945,952*		San Francisco
741,206*		Dallas
462,257		Los Angeles
439,041		Phoenix
437,994*		Norfolk
390,724		San Francisco
365,438		Dallas
336,265		Los Angeles
325,078		Denver
324,528		Los Angeles
303,871*		Los Angeles (Inland Empire)
285,068*		Minneapolis
277,140		New York
259,841		Dallas
257,729		Las Vegas
247,597		New York
244, 769		Tampa
243,916		San Diego
236,123		Phoenix
228,330		Raleigh
226,876		Dallas
226,721		Phoenix
224,669		Miami
222,209		Norfolk
217,385		Phoenix
216,961		Las Vegas
216,290		Dallas
214,089		San Francisco
212,375		Los Angeles
209,924		Los Angeles (Inland Empire)
208,453		Phoenix
207,627		Washington, D.C.
198,397*		Seattle
197,899		Chicago

Population	Suburb	Anchor City of Metro Area
197,899		Los Angeles
196,069*		Los Angeles (Inland Empire)
195,976		New York
193,365*		Los Angeles (Inland Empire)
191,719		Los Angeles
189,992		Los Angeles
180,719		Norfolk
176,320		Los Angeles
175,396		Dallas
173,372		Kansas City
170,883		Los Angeles
167,815*		San Francisco
167,086		San Diego
165,269*		Los Angeles (Inland Empire)
165,521*		Miami
163,924*		Los Angeles (Inland Empire)
161,791		Portland
161,719		Phoenix
156,633		Los Angeles
154,750		Miami
154,305*		Fort Myers
154,065		Phoenix
153,015		Sacramento
152,750		Los Angeles
152,374*		Los Angeles (Inland Empire)
149,058		Los Angeles
149.043		Houston
147,433		Chicago
146,199		New York
145,786		Kansas City
145,438		Los Angeles
144,229*		New York
144,186		San Francisco
143,911		San Diego

Population	Suburb	Anchor City of Metro Area
142,980		Denver
141,853		Chicago
140,768		Miami
140,081		San Francisco
139,966		Washington, D.C.
139,824		Dallas
137,436		Norfolk
137,122		Los Angeles
136,416		Los Angeles
135,234		Raleigh
135,161		Los Angeles
134,056		Detroit
131,117		Dallas
129,699		Detroit
129,480		Salt Lake City
126,683		Los Angeles
125,872		Kansas City
124,969		New York
124,237		Los Angeles
122,643		New York
122,363		Seattle
122,067		San Francisco
122,041		Miami
121,096		Miami
119,097		Dallas
118,788		Sacramento
118,772		Denver
117,517		Phoenix
116,989		Dallas
116,830		Kansas City
116,468*		San Francisco
115,942		San Francisco

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	smekeldorfed:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 02:09 GMT		3 points
	An asterisk (*) denotes a city that is not always considered a suburb of the anchor city listed. This includes cities that are considered separate metro area anchors, the smaller of "twin" cities or other multi-city agglomerations, cities that are considered exburbs rather than more dependent suburbs, and cities that are considered suburbs or components of different metro areas than those listed.

	biggz:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 02:36 GMT		1 point
	it should accept "ft worth" as well as "fort worth"

	rob63:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 03:53 GMT		3 points
	Cape Coral is hardly a suburb of Miami since there is little if any commuting between SW Florida and SE Florida. In addition, people living in Coral Springs and Pembroke Pines would view themselves as being in suburbs of Fort Lauderdale, not Miami. It could be that it's a uniqueness about SE Florida that each county has its own distinct "hub city."

	jmarshallg:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 04:30 GMT		4 points
	Santa Rosa should have an asterisk at least. It's not that close to SF.

	smekeldorfed:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT		2 points
	Cape Coral has been fixed, and an asterisk added to Santa Rosa. As for Coral Springs and Pembroke Pines, they're listed with Miami because all of them, including Ft. Lauderdale, are part of the greater South Florida metropolitan area, of which Miami is by far the largest and most important city, and therefore considered the anchor. Ft. Lauderdale is listed under Miami with an asterisk because it is, like you suggest, sometimes consiered its own hub city, but is still part of a larger continuously urbanized area whose activity is focused on Miami.

	borodino21:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 06:06 GMT		3 points
	If you're going to list (larger city of the pair) San Jose as a suburb of (traditional anchor city) San Francisco, then (larger city of the pair) Virginia Beach should be a suburb of (traditional anchor city) Norfolk.

	Onno:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 08:59 GMT		3 points
	Great quiz. I learned a lot (well, pretty much all of the 40 I knew) of these names on Sporcle, and for quite a few I didn't know in which metro area they were. I still think it's peculiar that Kansas City, KS is a suburb of Kansas City, MO...

	jonnyr12:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 15:51 GMT		2 points
	Cool idea. BUTTTT, you missed Fullerton, CA, Hollywood, FL, Pasadena, TX, Corona, CA, Peoria, AZ, Fremont, CA, Irvine, CA, and Chandler, AZ (directly from your source and by your criteria). Also, if you change things stylistically so that the most important city is the anchor in all cases (e.g. Norfolk, San Fran), then you could argue to include Cape Coral, as it is a suburb of much smaller but otherwise more important Fort Myers.

	smekeldorfed:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 00:17 GMT		1 point
	Thank you so much! I guess I must have missed them since the source doesn't specify if a city is a suburb. I actually wondered why a few of them weren't on the list. It has been fixed.

	TEXAJC:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 20:33 GMT		5 points
	i've never thought of Fort Worth as a "suburb".

	SomeoneRandom:	Aug 21st, 2011 at 15:30 GMT		3 points
	There's a problem with West Valley City. Also, you missed Rancho Cucamonga. Oh, and one other thing: Bridgeport is definitely not a suburb of NYC.

	smekeldorfed:	Nov 25th, 2011 at 03:57 GMT		1 point
	West Valley City and Rancho Cucamonga have been fixed. As for Bridgeport, it is the center of its own Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of New York City's Combined Statistical Area, hence its asterisk (this is the same case for your suggestion of Rancho Cucamonga, which is part of the Riverside MSA and the Los Angeles CSA).

	Highwayman:	Jan 12th, 2012 at 14:59 GMT		1 point
	The population of Elk Grove, CA should be 153,015 not 156,060 -- it took me a bit to figure out why the populations were out of sequence in that part of the column.