Public Transportation Fact Book Appendix C - Urbanized Area Population by Census Year

Decennial census population reference table for urbanized areas from APTA Fact Book Appendix C. One row is an urbanized area and census year with population, land area, and density fields; a verification query found 4,800 rows for 794 areas covering census years 1950 through 2010.

american-public-transportation-association-factbook-c-uza-population-by-census-year·9 columns·83 KB·APTA statistical publication reuse terms / site copyright notice·updated 17d ago

Schema

census_yearint32
urbanized_areastring
populationint64
land_area_sq_midouble
density_per_sq_midouble
primary_statestring
secondary_statestring
third_statestring
fourth_statestring

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