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Atnalta, you will note, is last.
I took the 32 largest U.S. urbanized areas and added Austin and Honolulu for good measure. I pulled the Census data on each census tract partially or completely contained within each of these urbanized areas. I calculated the standard density (i.e., total population/total land area) for each census tract. I also calculated each census tract's share of the total population of the urbanized area. I then assigned each tract's density a "weight" equal to its share of the total population. I summed the weights to get the weighted density for the urbanized area.Â
I'm preparing a permanent page with more information on the methodology and limits of this approach. (It's a very good method, though, in my opinion.)
But that technical stuff can wait a few days. Here are the weighted densities, ranked from most dense to least dense:
