Important Takeaways:

• Nation’s Urban and Rural Populations Shift Following 2020 Census
• Despite the increase in the urban population, urban areas, defined as densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas, now account for 80.0% of the U.S. population, down from 80.7% in 2010.
• The nation’s most densely populated urban areas of 200,000 or more people are:
  • Los Angeles—Long Beach—Anaheim, CA (7,476 people per square mile)
  • San Francisco—Oakland, CA (6,843 people per square mile)*
  • San Jose, CA (6,436 people per square mile)
  • New York—Jersey City—Newark, NY—NJ (5,981 people per square mile)
  • Honolulu, HI (5,886 people per square mile)
• The New York-Jersey City-Newark, NY-NJ, area remains the nation’s most populous urban area, with a population of 19,426,449. The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, area is the second most populous (12,237,376), followed by the Chicago, IL-IN area (8,671,746).
• Among urban areas with populations of 1 million or more, the Austin, TX area grew at the fastest rate, increasing by 32.8%, followed by the Raleigh, NC, area, at 25.1%, and Orlando, FL, at 22.7%.

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