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City/Place Demographic Trends and Peer Group Analysis

Many of us are interested in the demographics of cities and learning how cities of interest are changing. Investors, families, businesses, and others want to know how some cities compare to others. This page reviews information and tools useful to assess city/place demographic, economic, and geographic structure and change. City/place refers to a geographic area of population concentration having governmental authority conveyed by the corresponding state.

New. 4/28/08. The new Extended Places Ranking Table enables you examine patterns of all U.S. cities/places using the interactive ranking table. The new file and ranking table includes all 19,475 incorporated places, towns, and census designated places. See details.

As of July 1, 2006, total population in all U.S. 19,475 incorporated places was 186,083,485, or 62.15 percent of the U.S. total 299,398,484. Small town America -- 12,380 of these places have a July 1, 2006 population under 2,500 and account for 9,513,511, or 3.18 percent of the total U.S. population.

See the top 10 largest and fastest growing places based on the latest official population estimates.

City/Place Population Trends. How has the population changed since 2000? What do these trends suggest about the future? Use the place ranking tables to get answers to these types of questions (click on a column to rank on your selected criteria) :

  • Places 50,000 population and over (679 places)
  • Places 25,000 to 50,000 population (681 places)
  • Places 10,000 to 25,000 population (1,500 places)

Order all incorporated places demographic trends Excel file. Order with charge card. $125.
Sample View:

Places trends data sample view

Access the population trend data for all places using the CommunityViewer Online Data Access feature.

PlaceRank. PlaceRank is a tool developed by Proximity to help assess how cities compare to one another. PlaceRank is an integrated software and database designed to operate on the user's computer. The user selects from several criteria used to rank cities included in a group of cities (e.g., places in one state of a certain population size). Weights assigned to each criteria by the user depending upon what the rankings are intended to reveal. See the PlaceRank Web page for more information.

Long-term Trends. See 1990-2000 place population trends for information on place population and population change from the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses.

City/Place Boundary Files and Map-based Analysis. Proximity has developed current city/place boundary files to view maps for one or all U.S. incorporated places. Updated to reflect January 2006, boundaries, view city/place boundaries in context of streets, counties, school districts, and other geography using the CommunityViewer software.

Extended Places Ranking Table. The Extended Places Ranking Table (a premium ranking table) enables you examine patterns of all U.S. cities/places using the interactive ranking table. The dataset and ranking table includes all 19,475 incorporated places asa well as county subdivisions (towns) and census designated places -- in total more than 33,000 places/towns. Rank on any of the fields included on a national level. Or, select a state and perform rankings just for that state. The following view shows Arizona places ranked on percent change in population from 7/1/00 to 7/1/06.



Fields include:
- Area name
- State postal abbreviation
- FIPS place code
- County subdivision code
- Area type
    162: incorporated place, 170: consolidated city, cdp: census designated place, 061: county subdivision
- Population and population change 2000, 2006 (only Census 2000 population for CDPs)

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