What's the population density where you live?

[Kulindahr]

I'm not too sure of the source of information it shows. If you go to the block I live on it gives the density of 4,900 per square mile. 3/4 of the block consists of an elementary school, I know nearly half the residents of the other quarter of the block. Mostly older single person households. I would estimate 100 people on the block. That's a far cry from making it nearly 5k in a square mile. Yet the neighboring block filled with houses on city sized lots shows less people per mile.

Having dealt with masses of data in different college courses, I'm inclined to think it's a matter of the operators between the data and the map. It's really very easy to be sloppy in parameters in ways that make accurate data look silly in presentation.

 

[frankfrank]

Not sure where people are finding the population density by BLOCK? My block is probably more than 100,000 per square mile...

 

[Sebazz]

Quite low, there's only like 10 guys on Grindr

 

[Kulindahr]

Not sure where people are finding the population density by BLOCK? My block is probably more than 100,000 per square mile...

On the interactive map you can go down the scale to county, then "block group", then "block", but the final term doesn't seem to mean city block, as in various ones I've checked the "blocks" cover multiple city blocks. I don't see any pattern for how they did it, either; some blocks are significant sections of a town while others are single apartment complexes.

 

[seven2go]

83 per square mile in my county but if the two largest population centers were averaged out it would be a quarter of that or less probably.

 

[Latimer]

Paris : 55 673 per square mile (21 498 per km2).
Paris and especially the small towns around, are very very dense, among the worst in the world.

But it's Paris, and in the historic center so much is so beautiful that "worst" is not a word I would ever think to use. The same goes for any number of European cities...

 

[thewiz]

I live downtown Washington, DC. In the buildings to the east and west of me (White House and U.S. Capitol) -- they all seem pretty dense since the elections of 2016.

 

[purina]

Not sure where people are finding the population density by BLOCK? My block is probably more than 100,000 per square mile...

On the interactive map you can go down the scale to county, then "block group", then "block", but the final term doesn't seem to mean city block, as in various ones I've checked the "blocks" cover multiple city blocks. I don't see any pattern for how they did it, either; some blocks are significant sections of a town while others are single apartment complexes.

I found my block figure by clicking down the population link to the tract level. My tract is about ½ sq. mi. and the blocks are actual city blocks.