Most Densely Populated American Metropolitan Areas

Rank	Metropolitan Area	Persons per square	Population	Land area
		mile of land area	(1998)	in square miles

1.	New York, NY-NJ-CT-PA	1,955.3	20,124,377	10,165.7
2.	Honolulu, HI	1,449.3	872,478	600.2
3.	Chicago, IL-IN-WI	1,247.0	8,809,846	6,930.5
4.	Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL	1,114.7	3,655,844	3,153.6
5.	Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD	1,006.0	5,988,348	5,936.0
6.	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA	961.6	1,122,974	941.0
7.	Milwaukee, WI	912.7	1,645,924	1,793.1
8.	San Fransisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA	909.4	6,816,047	7,368.6
9.	Boston, MA-NH-ME-CT	903.5	5,633,060	6,450.0
10.	Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL	871.8	2,256,559	2,554.5
11.	Detroit, MI	828.3	5,457,583	6,565.9
12.	Cleveland, OH	805.1	2,911,683	3,612.7
13.	Salt Lake City, UT	771.3	1,267,745	1,617.5
14.	Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV	752.4	7,285,206	9,578.3
15.	Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY	742.9	1,152,541	1,567.7
16.	Hartford, CT	729.5	1,143,859	1,514.9
17.	El Paso, TX	692.5	703,127	1,013.1
18.	Norfolk-Virginia Beach, VA-NC	657.8	1,542,143	2,348.6
19.	San Diego, CA	647.6	2,780,592	4,204.5
20.	Atlanta, GA	592.1	3,746,059	6,126.2
21.	South Bend, IN	564.3	258,088	457.3
22.	Dayton-Springfield, OH	561.3	948,522	1,683.6
23.	Houston, TX	560.6	4,407,579	7,706.7
24.	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA	556.4	616,877	1,103.2
25.	Barnstable-Yarmouth, MA	518.3	150,661	395.8
26.	West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL	515.9	1,032,625	1,974.2
27.	Springfield, MA	515.1	573,727	1,147.5
28.	Dallas-Fort Worth, TX	514.4	4,802,463	9,104.7
29.	Pittsburgh, PA	510.6	2,346,153	4,623.9
30.	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	507.7	1,948,264	3,809.6

37.	Los Angeles, CA	459.5	15,781,273	33,966.0(2)
264.	Las Vegas, NV-AZ	32.1	1,321,546	39,370.3(1)
273.	Flagstaff, AZ-UT	5.3	120,371	22,611.3(3)