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> The majority of the US population lives in the same 6-8 metro areas; According to [0] that isn't true. The eight most populous metro areas make up less than
by Kerrick 4y ago
> The majority of the US population lives in the same 6-8 metro areas;
According to [0] that isn't true. The eight most populous metro areas make up less than a quarter of the population in the U.S. You'd need the 48 most populous metro areas, not the 8 most populous. That means including all the way down to... Salt Lake City, Utah, at just over a million people.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=sum+of+the+population+of+the+largest+8+metropolitan+areas+in+the+usa https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=sum+of+the+population+o...
- thwarted 4y agoThank you for pointing out this lack of accuracy and clarity. Majority is hyperbolic, but even a quarter is a big enough chunk that it motivates both employees and employers to locate in and look for each other in those areas. I guess it's less about total population, a statistic that doesn't contain enough detail, and more about population density. SLC has a million people in 110m² at half the density SF at 875k in 49m².