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Most Populous City By State

The United States has a lot of people in it. However, we wanted to take a look at what was the most populous city within each state, and graph it out.

We took a look only at incorporated cities (as opposed to metropolitan areas) and found some interesting results, especially towards the bottom.

Familiar cities like Boise (ID) and Salt Lake City (UT) are outside the top 100, while cities like Portland (ME) and Cheyenne (WV) aren’t even in the top 500. Burlington, the most populous city in VT, didn’t even crack the top 1000.

Data was compiled from the Census (via Wikipedia 1 2) for cities with population over 100,000 and the World Gazetteer for the remaining Top 1000 cities.

Here’s a text file of the data.

We think taking a look at this in a bar chart gives real perspective on the differences from state-to-state.

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Top 10 Most Popular Cities in North America

Can you name the ten most populous cities in North America?

I tried and I know that I didn’t get them all.  Specifically, I missed a few cities of our neighbors to the south in Mexico and the north in Canada, which probably speaks to my poor knowledge of geography more than anything else.

Here is the list (taken from Wikipedia), compiled based on the most recent census data from each county:

Rank Country City Population Census
Year
1 Mexico Mexico City 8,873,017 2010
2 USA New York City 8,175,133 2010
3 USA Los Angeles 3,792,621 2010
4 USA Chicago 2,695,598 2010
5 Canada Toronto 2,503,281 2006
6 USA Houston 2,100,017 2010
7 Canada Montréal 1,854,442 2006
8 Mexico Tijuana 1,784,034 2009
9 Mexico Ecatepec de Morelos 1,658,806 2010
10 USA Philadelphia 1,556,396 2010

It’s nice to have them all in a list, but if we graph this data we can hopefully get some additional value from this information.

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