| The title of this quiz - Empty cities - seems a bit misleading. Many of these cities have greater density than other cities not included in the quiz. Detroit, for example, with a population density of 6,370 per square mile, has a much greater population density than many so-called "non-empty" cities. In fact, Detroit is less "empty" than practically every city in the United States, including most big cities, such as Houston (3,897 per square mile), Phoenix (2,937), San Antonio (2,809), San Diego (4,175), Dallas (3,697), San Jose (5,758), Jacksonville (1,061), Indianapolis (2,212), Austin (3,126), Columbus (3,556), Fort Worth (2,404), Charlotte (2,515), Memphis (2,327), El Paso (2,446), Denver (3,905), Nashville (1,234), Las Vegas (4,154), Louisville (1,866), Portland (4,288), Oklahoma City (872), Tucson (2,783), Atlanta (4,018), and Albuquerque (2,796). Oklahoma City only has 1/7 of the population density of Detroit. Most of the above don't even have 1/2 the population density of Detroit. So, if Detroit is "empty", how can Oklahoma City not be? |
Most Populous City by Time Zone 
Confederate Cities (1860) 
Highest Population Jewish Cities (1939)
