Talk:List of United States urban areas/Archive 2

2020 Census
It looks like 2010 data was available by this point in 2011 - anyone have ideas about how things are going for 2021? Is it already possible to do something with the urban area definitions that they have already posted (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/02/19/2021-03412/urban-areas-for-the-2020-census-proposed-criteria) and the redistricting data that just got released? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.24.61.231 (talk) 17:04, 17 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Would like to reiterate this question, I would love to see 2020 Urban areas list, and if it doesn't exist this census would wonder why. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.231.40.128 (talk) 20:06, 27 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Looking at the Census Bureau website https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0100000US%244000000&tid=DECENNIALSF12010.P1 would suggest that data on urban area sizes is not available from 2020 yet. Would be good to keep an eye on this to update the table in future. Dflint0505 (talk) 22:52, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

MAJOR ERRORS in Table ??
If you click on the reference for the table you go to https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/ua/ua_list_all.txt

This gives San Francisco-Oakland, CA like so:

San Francisco--Oakland, CA                                        3281212       1338437         1356171095        523.62           24162411          9.33        6266.4     75

We consult the Wikipedia table and it's systematically different to the above in population and area terms, what is up with this?

Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA; Spokane, WA–ID; and Waterbury, CT are also off.

I haven't checked the areas properly; it's possible there's rounding/conversion issues

Vonvorx (talk) 06:28, 29 November 2021 (UTC)


 * San Francisco--Oakland and San Jose's populations were merged because they are usually considered to be the same urban area. Same with Los Angeles and San Bernardino. Not sure if this is a good reason though.


 * Not sure what's up with Spokane, WA–ID and Waterbury, CT; might be best to redo it again in case there's a big error? Itooaminuit (talk) 17:43, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Complete revision
I think this page needs a complete revision. Demographia has a complete list of the world's largest urban areas and it seems like a more reliable way of measuring. http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf It has all cities above 500k people. Icantfindanunusedusernamewhyme (talk • contribs) 18:29, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

2020 urban areas
The 2020 Urban Area data is not yet released from the Census Bureau. Per an email to the bureau, "We are anticipating release of the 2020 Urban Areas toward the end of this calendar year. Delineation is currently underway!" Until that time, 2010 is the most recent data on US urban areas that is available. Ostealthy (talk) 12:21, 9 June 2022 (UTC)


 * The 2020 urban area data was released by the Census Bureau on December 29, 2022: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-rural-populations.html Ostealthy (talk) 00:32, 31 December 2022 (UTC)