Largely as a result of the change in criteria, the proportion of American citizens living in urban areas fell between 20, from 80.7% to 80.0%.
A jump is a distance along a road to connect two urban territories surrounded by rural territory. The lowering of the allowable "jump distance" from 2.5 to 1.5 miles.Previously, this minimum was 2,500 in population. The use of housing unit density as an alternative minimum for inclusion: either 2,000 housing units or a population of 5,000 may qualify an area as an urban area.Areas that would previously be called urban clusters are now all urban areas. Urban areas were previously defined as areas with at least 50,000 residents, and urban clusters were areas with less than 50,000. The removal of the distinction between urban areas and urban clusters.
Key changes for the 2020 criteria included: The criteria were finalized on March 24, 2022, after a period of public input, and the final results of delineation were published on December 29, 2022. The list in this article includes urban areas with a population of at least 50,000, but urban areas may have as few as 5,000 residents or 2,000 housing units.įor the 2020 census, the Census Bureau redefined the classification of urban areas. Urban areas are distinguished from rural areas: any area not part of an urban area is considered to be rural by the Census Bureau. Since urban areas are composed of census blocks and not cities, counties, or county-equivalents, urban area boundaries may consist of partial areas of these political units. Urban areas consist of a densely-settled urban core, plus surrounding developed areas that meet certain density criteria. An urban area is defined by the Census Bureau as a contiguous set of census blocks that are "densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas". This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations.
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