# What Population Area Do You Live In **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528 "2011-05-20T01:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/21 "2011-05-20T15:49:08Z")
I live in a tiny unincorporated island surrounded by towns of 30,000-140,000 people less than a couple blocks away. I picked unincorporated urban 'cause that’s where I am but I’m not sure if it helps. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/22 "2011-05-20T16:17:06Z")
Arlington, VA - pop. ~200,000, but smack in the middle of a metro area (DC) of up to ~5,000,000, depending on how wide you cast the net. Coming from a small town in Arkansas, I love having my kids not grow up bored shitless like I was. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/23 "2011-05-20T16:24:00Z")
My city was under 10k in the 2000 census but [city-data.com](http://city-data.com) has it over 10k as of 2009. I don’t understand the confusion everyone is having here. Do other places that aren’t my town have confusing geo-political boundaries? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/24 "2011-05-20T16:35:07Z")
Sector 001, in a major Ohio city with less than half a million people. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/25 "2011-05-20T16:35:43Z")
Not sure abou “incorporated municipality” and just went with the city on my address; about 35,000. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/26 "2011-05-20T16:43:43Z")
I live in Washington DC, population 572,000. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/27 "2011-05-20T17:25:28Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I don’t understand the confusion everyone is having here. Do other places that aren’t my town have confusing geo-political boundaries? I’m not confused, it just seems irrelevant that the city councils or whoever officially annexed the property a block away from my house but not the lot my own house is on. Aside from lacking sidewalks and curbs, life is pretty much the same here, one block over. I guess the term “population area” and “type of community” is throwing people off since it (to me) implies some sort of cultural demographics. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/28 "2011-05-20T17:28:25Z")
Springfield has a population of about 130,000ish in city limits, probably another 25,000ish if you count the burbs. I live in the city limits. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/29 "2011-05-20T17:33:46Z")
I live in a 500,000+ area - I want to move down a couple of categories. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/30 "2011-05-21T04:06:58Z")
I’m not sure what an incorporated municipality really means, but if I look just at the Borough level, the neighbourhood of the Plateau Mont-Royal has just over 101 000 people (2006 census). The City of Montreal has 1 620 000+ people, though, while the Island of Montreal has 1 934 000+ people. The metropolitan area has 3 859 000+ people. So I answered 100 000 to 249 999. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/31 "2011-05-21T05:40:31Z")
I live in the City of Darebin (pop est. 140,000), which is 5-6km outside of Melbourne CBD. The whole of Melbourne popn is around 4 million. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/32 "2011-05-21T06:23:02Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > Arlington, VA - pop. ~200,000, but smack in the middle of a metro area (DC) of up to ~5,000,000, depending on how wide you cast the net. Why would you include an area that isn’t even in the state? When I lived twenty-odd miles from Boston it never would have occured to me to include Boston’s population in an answer to a question about how many people lived where I did. ---
**Author:** ![Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diver)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528/33 "2011-05-21T19:40:21Z")
I voted “other” because we have lived in our motor home for 8 years traveling all over the country. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-population-area-do-you-live-in/582528.md?page=1)