I’m in north Fort Worth after living in the south Dallas county area most of my life. I gotta get out of here, I’m sick of so many people and the traffic!
I knew Anchorage would be #1 on this list. It really doesn’t feel like it’s as big as it is. I live nearly 400 miles to the North, in Fairbanks, and every time I travel down, I’m always amazed at how well traffic flows around there.
Jacksonville FL is Florida's largest "city" by land mass, size not pop. I think Miami 🌆 has the most residents. Orlando, Orlando.gov 2020s is approx 800000. Maybe 850000. It seems larger than it really is.
Kansas City has annexed quite a lot of land over the past several decades, especially north of the Missouri River. Much of that space is semi-rural, and includes a lot of empty land around the airport. Many first-time visitors to KC who fly into KCI remark on how, when coming in for the landing, the plane flies over crop land and fields of grazing cattle, not over built-up urban areas like in many other cities of similar size.
The other way around. People moved from the city to unincorporated areas located outside the city. The cities later incorporated those suburban neighborhoods. No one wants to live in a sterile urban wasteland.
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As a resident of Broken Arrow (part of the greater Tulsa area), I can tell you that listing Tulsa and OKC as empty is a little misleading. Both metro areas are huge and growing rapidly. That includes cities in Tulsa county and Oklahoma county.
I'm surprised Rochester NY isn't on this list. I was there 10 years ago for a wedding. And for one thing, I was shocked how big the downtown area is, many tall buildings and such, i wasn't expecting that. After exploring the downtown area, it was very clear that just about half of that city was empty. It was very weird and eerie, kinda like Detroit
As a UK citizen who has relations living in Arizona, and has visited, I can honestly say it feels quite empty. Mind you the streets could be empty because it's ridiculously hot.
That is why Jacksonville has a larger population than Miami or Tampa. The city merged with the county for some reason. The urban area population is a lot smaller.
Interesting video, but I think some context is missing here. It's important to note that cities like New Orleans, Nashville, Virginia Beach, and Jacksonville have merged with their county governments, which significantly impacts their population density as their city limits encompass their respective counties. They function more like counties rather than traditional cities seen in the Northeast US, which can give the impression of emptiness when looking at population statistics. It's a unique aspect of Southern urban planning that aims to streamline services for the community while reducing bureaucracy. The absence of township-level government and the presence of one large school district for an entire county, as opposed to several smaller ones, further validate this approach (a cool outlier is San Antonio which is served by 14 independent school districts vs Chicago served by only 1). Also...China has taken a similar approach with planning its new mega cities like Chongqing.
Yes ,,just like australia,, our cities are empty in lockdown, because we mainly live in houses 5o miles out in suburbia,, also its colder than concrete cities plus we get harrassed for appearoing homeless ,, so cities get ghosted
New Orleans is in a parish not a county. Please refer to the correct nomenclature. It's not only incorrect to refer it from a governmental stand point but a cultural as well.
@@joeywilson3 I appreciate the correction and apologize for the oversight in my terminology. I used "counties" as a general term for secondary levels of local government. As Virginia Beach is technically an "independent city" which is unique to that state rather than a consolidated-city-county. I didn't feel it was necessary to delve into such detail on this platform, but I understand and respect the importance of accuracy in discussions like these.
@@teasy2518County, borough, parish, district, municipality, it doesn’t matter how you slice it. I understood what you meant, and was very intrigued by your comment.
That doesn’t sound like a good plan and southern cities aren’t the only ones that absorbed counties. They are like that because they ARE empty. It’s just the way they built the city
Most ppl don't live in Nunavut that's the stupidest reply I've ever seen.. This whole thing is about cities not states or small villages nobody would live in but a m o r o n. Anchorage has WalMart it's still expensive though
Some cities are hemmed in by legal boundaries which count only the cramped city center population. KC and Oklahoma City and Jacksonville have enormous land areas which in Chicago or St Louis have small areas. Area of developed area should be compared to population and then things equalize significantly.
Yeppers, Jacksonville is the largest city in the state of Florida by square mileage. Suffolk is the largest city in the state of Virginia by square mileage.
The NJ average density is extraordinarily misleading. Northwestern NJ is extremely rural. A huge chunk of Southern NJ has the Pine Barrens (about 1.1 million acres) plus many huge industrial farms. Northeastern NJ is the largest and most densely populated REGION in the U$A. Population density varies from 0 to more than 60,000 people per square mile.
One of the reasons why these cities are empty is because public transportation suck in ALL of these cities. I've been to some of the cities on this list and the public transportation is abysmal.
Unless I'm crazy, one of your pictures of Memphis is actually of Nashville, off the Cumberland River, the picture with the "Batman Building", which is well known in Nashville.
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This study would have been more beneficial if it had included the entire county of these locals. You see, a lot of people are moving out of the intercity to the suburbs to avoid traffic, taxes and crime!
This video misses the elephant in the room: zoning. Majority of urban and suburban areas have zoning laws for single-family homes. That restriction is detrimental to significantly decreasing the population density for a major city, as single-family homes typically acquire large acres of land to be utilized for such.
Yep. Most analyses miss this and choose to focus on, from one side, greed, cApItaLiSm, and gentrification and, from the other, freedumb, my sprawl hellscape is "full", and "we just need to add another lane!"
Urban sprawl is somehow making a comeback. People used to make fun of atlanta and La in the past. But now we have houston, kansas city, las vegas, Phoenix, and tucson absorbing areas and spreading out. Coupled with a lack of new piblic transit options.
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After looking at the video and the comments, we know for certain that no effort was made in actually "talking about the problem," if there really was a problem. The producer deserves no money from this video.
The thing is, so many cities have reduced dramatically in population -- consider St. Louis, for example -- while their suburbs have grown dramatically. So, looking at the limited CITY statistics does not speak to the economy and vibrancy of the entire metro area. Sorry for stating the obvious!
the new orleans count is wrong. because there is so much water and marsh i within city limit its actually very densely populated even post katrina because the geography makes sprawl near impossible
The introductory example of Kansas City is foolish as hell. 1,600 people per square mile isn’t a detractor for any city IMO. I prefer not to live stacked on top of my neighbors.
@@bluecyclone7077 Your aggressive and naive, zero sum logic does not compute as an avid horticulturist and earth lover. Humans have lived sparsely as agrarians or gatherers since we’ve existed; many thousands of years with minimal environment impact. I grew up in a small, walkable, convenient, and socially connected, not suburban town. I was able to achieve a superior education; top 5% of the populous. Massive cities, in fact, created these modern urban sprawl problems. Don’t fret though, bruv, before you troll. Per your other divisive comments to others, I live in a growing metro and am happy; even better if I could retire away from the masses.
I met this guy from Albuquerque New Mexico and he told me that Kansas City and New Orleans were huge cities to him.I believe him and both of those cities are labeled U.S. major cities in the U.S.
Toledo is the second largest city in Ohio in land area but #4 in population. People don’t want to live in big cities anymore because it’s not 1950 anymore.
Maybe not in Ohio. Certain cities yeah. They want NEW sht. with some of the classic urban look…and they don’t want to have to pay for 3500 for a “luxury” apt. to do so.
Kansas City is not empty. There's a lot of park space here, including Swope Park, one of the largest urban parks. Also, we don't have a huge downtown packed with high-rise apartment complexes. The suburbs are spread out, too. There's plenty of people in residential areas, we just didn't design a sardine can of a city like Chicago, which is an outlier, not the norm for American cities.
In New Orleans' case, it also helps to mention that the population lives on roughly half the area the city occupies. The other half is swamp land. Plus, most of Kansas City's population lives south of the Missouri River. Much of its area north of the river was annexed because of KCI Airport.
Katrina drove those people away. 28,000 of those landed in the Greater Katy metro region west of Houston. 2/3 of those never returned. In that case the root cause is economical..those migrants did exponentially better in the Katy region economically, in education, and in safety. In fact, more people headed west as their friends in family in Texas told them of the opportunities down I 10.
Oh please stop with this "woke" thing. It doesn't mean anything anymore. Tucson Is woke? Kansas city? Woke Is now a Word use by conservative to descrive anything they don't like
I’m a KCMO resident. Land-wise, we are quite big but a large amount of KCMO land is undeveloped. The video is really misleading by this since it’s technically about population location and density. Sure Chicago land area is technically smaller, but most of that land is developed. Plus, they fail to mention urban sprawl and lack of decent mass transit as well other societal factors for the lack of urban density in KC but just pin it on crime rate.
Halfway through the Video and I must say that not mentioning car dependency as a factor for low population density is beyond me. Of course your City will be sparsely populated when half the city are Parking Lots and Highways. Cities in the US with a high population Density like NYC, Chicago, Boston and San Fransisco do not waste their land on car infrastructure and have therefore more space for housing, which leads to a higher population density.
Kansas city is not low density because people have vacated it. It has always been low density as it has incorporated many areas around it into itself... The core is actually increasing in population.. Our down town which used to have all the big shopping and businesses is still viable but a LOT of those tall buildings are now Condos with people moving back INTO the city core. The current metro area population of Kansas City in 2024 is 1,739,000, a 0.81% increase from 2023. The metro area population of Kansas City in 2023 was 1,725,000, a 0.82% increase from 2022. The metro area population of Kansas City in 2022 was 1,711,000, a 0.77% increase from 2021. The metro area population of Kansas City in 2021 was 1,698,000, a 0.71% increase from 2020.
With race issues (white flight) and job declines, many US cities emptied out post -WWII. A good example is also Buffalo. Great architecture in the downtown, what’s missing is people and, as a result, retail.
Wasnt expecting to see Jacksonville on this list, as most of the tourism is just people making a pit-stop before heading further south to either go to Tampa, Orlando, or Miami the rest being for when the Georgia-Florida game happens. But it makes sense, the traffic during that time is terrible. And if you wanted a good housing, it's mostly on the south side of Jacksonville. So, by the Town Center going towards the beach or going pass the Avenues Mall. Only down side aside from crime, cost, and people not really knowing how to fuckin drive down here, is traffic. Weather? It changes like a pregnant woman with mood swings. So always have a jacket, change of shoes, and an umbrella. And dont forget the shades so the sun dosn't blind you on the highway. Also nice to see a clip of the Landing before they tore it down. Gonna miss that place. It was one of the central locations for events. The fireworks, the boat parades and mini concerts. It used to be a two story mall that you could also go to the docks along the St. Johns river and take a taxi ferry to the other side where you could explore the San Marco area.
Looks to me like the first mention of KC was meant to be an intro to the video that was supposed to demonstrate geographic area vs density between KC and Chicago.
At 9:47 you show a chart about crime rates with rates per 100K of population. This is incorrect. You give raw numbers, not rates, who edits your stuff?
Who says kansas city is empty. The city land mass is enormous. Tulsa has lots of room between homes and few apartments. Virginia Beach is wealthy. Really wealthy
Simple the land will be invested in or resold. Then it will have nice places to sell at a higher price or the area will get a new factory which taxes will pay for. Remember GM people
Would have been interesting if you had mentioned the population numbers of people living in the centre or downtown area of these cities, in comparison to their sprawl population. Humbly think that will say something more than just the overall population numbers. The clickbait on this vid suggests you go into the depths of empty American cities, well that simply isn’t the case. This is more like a statistical overview, not even an analysis of those numbers.
If you are going to pretend to present factual information and statistics perhaps you should compare land area with actual population in that land area. As you mentioned Kansas City is an extremely large spread out metropolitan area. However, you chose to compare the population of Kansas City Missouri only with other cities of similarly large areas. Kansas City Missouri does indeed have a little over a half million residents. The metropolitan area however contains 2.2 million people.
Public transportation is the difference. Chicago, NYC, Philly, Jersey City, Boston, etc, have great public transportation. All the others are car oriented.
Yeah, and they allow all of the crime to easily flow into the suburbs. People who own cars won't put up with it, and leave. That's why all of those cities are rampant with crime.
Please do me a favor and physically look at a map of Tucson. Their city limits go almost 20 mi away from the city center on the east side. However you don't really hit the city until you're about 7 mi from downtown. Meaning you drive through 13 mi of empty desert, inside Tucson City limits before you ever reach any urbanized area. This skews your number
Yeah this is the dumbest video. These are all cities that are just as dense as others, but have official boundaries that include a lot more surrounding land.
@@brandonmccoy8434 amen. I can understand why Tucson did it though. They're probably just trying to prevent other towns from surrounding it kind of like Chicago is surrounded
Virginia Beach was a small town with fewer than 6,000 people in the early 1960s. Later in the decade it consolidated with Princess Anne County (200+ sq.mi.) to prevent County land from being annexed by the adjacent city of Norfolk. So VB is not a real city at all, but basically just a surburb of Norfolk.
@@trapmuzik6708 I kind of laughed about the tourist population. I thought, why? It's due to the rest of Duval county. And population is not surpising given how many retirees move south.
VA Beach, Norfolk. Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton and Portsmouth are all considered Independent Cities within Virginia. They are basically counties without the name.
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Nothing will change until we realize red and blue are the same. These politicians are laughing all the way to the bank. Mean while we're out here arguing about which side is worse.
Fascinating video! It really highlights the importance of considering location in retirement planning. Empty cities could offer unexpected opportunities. Thanks for sharing!
I drove through Tucson about a month ago, I swear I was 20 miles out of the city in the desert when I pulled off the highway to fix something in my van… and there was a sign that said “Tucson City Limit” … it was wild
