Cohousing-L Mailing List: Urban Density

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

The Wikipedia article Joanie Connors referenced has a link to the US  
Census Bureau's list of Urban Areas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Urban_Areas_%26_Urban_Clusters

Urban areas are contiguous census block groups with a  population  
density of at least 1,000 inhabitants per sq mile with any census  
block groups around this core having a density of at least 500  
inhabitants per sq mile.

The census has two categories of urban areas. Urbanized Areas have  
populations greater than 50,000 while Urban Clusters have populations  
of less than 50,000.

[I have no idea what this means but I include it incase someone has  
just this question:  An Urbanized Area serves as the core of a  
metropolitan statistical area, while an Urban Cluster serves as the  
core of a micropolitan statistical area.]

Fortunately, the article then gives a list of the Urbanized Areas and  
the cities within them, and Urban Clusters, so you don't have to  
understand any of this.

The point is that this list could be used as a basis for identifying  
urban communities according to at least one accepted standard --

-- by anyone who has a free afternoon.

The FIC directory can't be searched or sorted by both "cohousing" and  
"[state]". The Coho list doesn't include this information.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing,Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org