athomeontheprairie Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Attended a workshop where a statistic was presented... Curious to see what how this plays out with the Hive. ETA to clarify:For the purpose of this poll, your immediate town. (Use the city in your address if you don't live in a town) For those of you that live next door to a major city-that doesn't count, use the city you reside in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Less than 300! LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Significantly less than 25,000 here. I doubt this goes along with your poll but where I live the population is about 8000. However we are 15 minutes from a city of 35,000 and another of 300,000. We have a lot of that small town feel but it feels completely different than where my parents live, population about 21,000 but no other towns of any size within 30 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 The population here is 1400. But we can drive to Minneapolis in under two hours if we want to, so that makes up for living in Mayberry. ;) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I live in San Antonio which is the 7th largest city in the country. The part where I live which is a "master-planned, deed restricted, multi-use development" has a population of about 75,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Close to half a million. Almost all of it looks and feels like suburbs, very little like what I expect in a big city. The metro area as a whole is a little over a million, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Around 800. The closest major town is 26K. I roll my eyes at all the ridiculous small town references in Gilmore Girls because its supposedly tiny town has a population of 10K, which is five times the size of the town where I grew up and is considerably bigger than almost all the towns in my hometown's surrounding counties. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 The tiny little incorporated place I technically and barely live in has less than 15,000. But I live in a major urban area with a population of nearly 10,000,000 in the metro area. My county has over a million people. I walk outside of my incorporated area daily and drive and take public transportation all over the metro area every week. So how are we defining community? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 in a city of over 100K. we're part of a metro area with a population of 3.6M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolatechip Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 34,000 here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HS Mom in NC Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 230,000 in my actual city 4. 3 million in the greater metro area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeaganS Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Under 25,000 but 15 mins from two cities in the hundred thousand range,so we get the benefits of both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emzhengjiu Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 There's over 200,000 in our city. But our next door neighbor, Dallas,has over 1.2 million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onceuponatime Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Our whole county has less than 10,000 people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 My township is around 5,000 people. The county I live in is around 500,000 and the town I work in, which is the largest in the county and only 10 minutes from my house, has a population of around 55,000. My county is less than 500 square miles. It's also evidently in the top 10 wealthiest counties in the US. The things you learn from Wikipedia. :D What I always find strange is people talking about having to drive a long way to the next town. Around here the towns are pretty much on top of each other and you really can't tell where one starts and the next ends except unless they put up a sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Well over half a million. Several million in the metro area. In other words, 25,000 seems tiny. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Our city is 36,000 which swells to greater than 53,000 when the university is in session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemiSweet Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Our current town has about 337,000, but we are moving in two weeks and our new town has 68,000 with a metro area of about 2.7 million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 We live in the largest major city in our area, so it has a nice, small town feel to it. I had to look it up, then delete my original vote because my guesstimate was wrong; it's actually about 27,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCF612 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Our actual city is roughly 20,000. We live in an area that is 3 cities so close together and so connected to one another that I feel that number isn't accurate reality wise, if that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 885,000. About 50,000 less when the students go home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonFaerie Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Our town has a population of about 6500, but we're only half an hour from a town of 120,000 and an hour from a major metropolitan city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IfIOnly Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 81,000 I just had to find this info. out for filling out 4-H forms. ETA: Perfect size for me. Not too big, not too small. We have Costco and few other larger city stores that are nice to have, lots of parks and activities for kids, etc, but there's still a town feel here too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 3677 in 2013. It is surrounded by much larger suburbs, though. (We live in a "village", whatever qualifies an area for that title. lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athomeontheprairie Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 The results of this clearly very scientific poll are rather interesting to me. He reported that 80% of the American population lives in communities smaller than 25,000 people. While that may be (I want to go hunt around for his statistics), I was curious to see how this board would fare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemongoose Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 My town is less than 700 people, but we are 16 miles from the burbs with over 25,000 and a major city is only 1 hour away, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 There's over 25,000 people in my unincorporated area. About 450,000 in the valley (not "the valley", a different valley) where all the smaller towns are part of one city. We all share a parks and rec department, libraries, etc. Less than 30 miles from the 2nd largest city in the country. 10.2 million people in our county. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Ivy Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I live in an unincorporated area of a large metro area. My census area has 92,000 people but the metro area has roughly 2.4 million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonFaerie Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 The results of this clearly very scientific poll are rather interesting to me. He reported that 80% of the American population lives in communities smaller than 25,000 people. While that may be (I want to go hunt around for his statistics), I was curious to see how this board would fare. That makes me wonder how they were defining "community." For people in larger areas and suburbs, their "community" might be their neighborhood (there are some very large neighborhoods around the suburbs of Atlanta, for example). Other people might consider their county to be their community. I went with my town. I think the word "community" can be rather vague. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim in Appalachia Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 My community has approximately 2,500 people. It's small even for a small town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amo_mea_filiis. Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Just under 5,000 here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historically accurate Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Just a hair over 25K. 25,282 as of Dec 2014. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 My actual mailing address town is about 200 people. But I live in a gated community that overlaps multiple towns, townships, and 2 counties, with over 2,000 houses. Some of those houses are vacation homes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Women Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I have no idea how many people my actual town has. I don't think it is significant, though, because for any real-life purposes, we are part of the whole metropolis of about 2 million people. Nobody I know draws lines and doesn't go over them for almost every purpose, every day--shopping, work, church, sports, play, parks...... all are more likely to be in any other city of the 20 or so within half an hour than in my own bedroom community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 8 million? More in the total NYC Statistical Area? 25,000 seems absolutely tiny. Staten Island itself only has 472,000, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 The closest village is 3 km away. it has less than 100. The street I live in has les than 15 people, 6 residences. The closest town is 20 minutes drive, it has 1000 people. the closest small city is 100 km away, it has 11,000 people. It is where I go for shopping and taking twins to psychologist every 3 weeks or so 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Around 800. The closest major town is 26K. I roll my eyes at all the ridiculous small town references in Gilmore Girls because its supposedly tiny town has a population of 10K, which is five times the size of the town where I grew up and is considerably bigger than almost all the towns in my hometown's surrounding counties. Oh, I don't think that's a fair comparison! If my town is only 200, then I should be annoyed if people in towns of 1,000 consider themselves small? Lol. I grew up in a town of 15,000 and still consider it a small town, with much more of a stereotypical "small town feel" than we have here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 (I apologize, but it's driving me crazy looking at the poll options: Since you are talking about the number of individual people, countable units, it should be "fewer than 25,000.") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I also live in San Antonio proper. The metroplex has about 2 million. Yes but are you sufficiently Weird? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksr5377 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 We're at about 850,000 not counting the surrounding metropolitan area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 You may like the population maps here: http://dadaviz.com/s/population-extremes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Yes but are you sufficiently Weird? No, no, no! It's Keep Austin weird! NOT San Antonio. We respond with Keep San Antonio lame. It works for us. We're awesome :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Oh, I don't think that's a fair comparison! If my town is only 200, then I should be annoyed if people in towns of 1,000 consider themselves small? Lol. I grew up in a town of 15,000 and still consider it a small town, with much more of a stereotypical "small town feel" than we have here. It's the "aw, shucks, we're so small and quaint" exaggerations and stereotypes that annoy me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 San Antonio is totally normal. Austin is where the weirdos live. ;)Uh-huh. http://gawker.com/5546467/teen-werewolves-roam-the-shopping-malls-of-san-antonio Not to mention the guy who shot Bigfoot just outside the city limits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Not quite 3000. Our local government region has broken the 10 000 barrier, so the council website is telling me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 My suburb has around 6,000. Although there is some discrepancy as to where I actually live. The neighbors on all 4 sides of me live in the suburb, but the previous owners refused to sign the paperwork 12 years ago, so officially I am still in the unincorporated county area. That area has 12,000. What does it mean to not be "official?" Nothing, other than I don't have to pay city taxes to the city I technically don't belong to. Oh and there is some hoity toity park that I can't get a parking pass to because the guy who runs it says ONLY those who are registered with this elite city get to have access. I honestly don't care and find it funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 The results of this clearly very scientific poll are rather interesting to me. He reported that 80% of the American population lives in communities smaller than 25,000 people. While that may be (I want to go hunt around for his statistics), I was curious to see how this board would fare. Well, the census doesn't bear that out https://ask.census.gov/faq.php?id=5000&faqId=5971 How many people reside in urban or rural areas for the 2010 Census? What percentage of the U.S. population is urban or rural? The urban areas of the United States for the 2010 Census contain 249,253,271 people, representing 80.7% of the population, and rural areas contain 59,492,276 people, or 19.3% of the population. In Puerto Rico, 3,493,256 people, or 93.8% of the population, reside in urban areas, and 232,533 people, or 6.2% of the population, reside in rural areas. In the Island Areas, 92.6% of the population, 347,487 people, live in urban areas, and 7.4% or the population, 27,678 people, live in rural areas. For additional information about urban and rural areas please see our website. So, I would want to know how your speaker defines "community" and compare it to how the census defines 'urban' and 'rural' But that is a pretty big disparity between the two. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom23Boys Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 My city has right at 10,000. My whole parish right at 70,000. The largest city to us has 230,000 in just their city. The parish is right around 450,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjzimmer1 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 The results of this clearly very scientific poll are rather interesting to me. He reported that 80% of the American population lives in communities smaller than 25,000 people. While that may be (I want to go hunt around for his statistics), I was curious to see how this board would fare. How many people reside in urban or rural areas for the 2010 Census? What percentage of the U.S. population is urban or rural? The urban areas of the United States for the 2010 Census contain 249,253,271 people, representing 80.7% of the population, and rural areas contain 59,492,276 people, or 19.3% of the population. So, I would want to know how your speaker defines "community" and compare it to how the census defines 'urban' and 'rural' But that is a pretty big disparity between the two. Well assuming the urban and rural are defined at the 25,000 mark, I would wonder if the guy got his numbers flipped because they are pretty much exactly the same otherwise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Well assuming the urban and rural are defined at the 25,000 mark, I would wonder if the guy got his numbers flipped because they are pretty much exactly the same otherwise. That is what I wondered as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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