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This is actually due to the inclusion of suburbs and exurbs in the “urban” category for US, Canada & Australia. Half of the US population lives in the suburbs
by othello 7y ago
This is actually due to the inclusion of suburbs and exurbs in the “urban” category for US, Canada & Australia.
Half of the US population lives in the suburbs (see above posters). What we would recognize as a real urban environment only accounts for less than a third of the US population (98M people).
- arethuza 7y agoMaybe its my UK bias - the distinction between urban and suburban doesn't seem to feature a lot in statistics here - things are often just usually "urban" (including suburbs) or "rural". I did see a figure of about 55% of everyone in England and Wales living in suburbs - but I suspect our suburbs look pretty dense to someone from Houston or indeed Achiltibuie!