Populations where you've lived

[fezzyfestoon]

It just dawned on me as I make yet another county map of the US that I don't think I've ever lived in a county with less than 100,000 people in it. Sooooo what types of areas have you lived in? And maybe what's your average?

Warren, NJ - 108,692
Passaic, NJ (briefly) - 501,226
Somerset, NJ - 323,444
Alamance, NC - 151,131
Philadelphia, PA - 1,526,006

Average - 522,100

[Hatman]

Lived in Ottawa my whole life.

When I was born, the city had about 600,000 (current borders). Today there is about 900,000 people.  I also briefly lived in Whistler, BC (2 months). It has 10,000.

I have lived in 3 neighbourhoods in Ottawa:

Riverview (12,000 people)
Centretown (21,000 people)
Centretown West (11,000 people)

[BushKenya]

Oklahoma County, OK - 718,633
Woods County, OK - 8,878
Dallas County, TX - 2,368,139

2010 Census Estimates

[Emperor SJoyce]

Pinellas County, FL: 916,542

[Proud Lieberal from Northeast]

Warsaw: 1,720,398 (2010 estimate), lived 1988-2001, living again from 2007

Brok: 1,859 (2006 estimate), lived 2001-2007

[BaldEagle1991]

Brazoria County, TX (native county): 313,166
Harris County, TX: 4,092,459
Nacogdoches County, TX: 64,524

[ilikeverin]

Allen County, IN: 355,329
Hennepin County, MN: 1,152,425
Ingham County, MI: 280,895
Soon to be either...
Montgomery County, MD: 971,777
Prince George's County, MD: 863,420

Regardless of whether I live in Montgomery or PG Counties, I will be living in the most ethnically diverse county I have ever lived in.

[Proud Lieberal from Northeast]

Warsaw: 1,720,398 (2010 estimate), lived 1988-2001, living again from 2007

Brok: 1,859 (2006 estimate), lived 2001-2007

I guess I'll also write borougs:

Warsaw Downtown (lived 1988-1993, 2007-present): 134,306 (2006 estimate)

Ursynów: (lived 1993-2001): 147,676 (2008 estimate)

[Senator Napoleon]

Fairfield, CT- 916,829
Hartford, CT- 894,014

[Senator Snowstalker]

Bergen County, NJ-905,116
Hudson County, NJ-634,266
Lancaster County, PA-519,445

[Torie]

[dead0man]

Alton IL-30k
Godfrey IL-18k
Marietta GA-56k
Lackland AFB-8k (and a few thousand recruits..but I was only there for about 7 weeks)
Biloxi MS-46k
Callaway FL-14k
Tyndall AFB-3k
Bellevue NE-50k
Papillion NE-19k
Omaha NE-409k


and I just realized you were going after counties not cities...doh
Madison IL-270k
Cobb GA-688k
Harrison MS-187k
Bay FL-169k
Sarpy NE-160k
Douglas NE-517k

and I had no idea Cobb county had more people in it than the county Omaha is in....but I suppose that makes sense.

[Ѕenator Αverroës]

Mostly rural. I've spent almost all of my life in Jefferson, NY, one of the fastest growing counties in the state on account of the military base. Weird place.

Schenectady, NY - 150,000
Saratoga, NY - 220,000
Herkimer, NY - 60,000
Monroe, NY - 730,000
Jefferson, NY - 120,000
Livingston, NY - 65,000

[I left.]

LK Darmstadt-Dieburg (Hessen), born here and lived here (with a short pause for one semester) for the last decade: 289,000 people.

LK Miesbach (Bavaria), quite shortly, 95.000 people.

Madison County, Illinois: A relatively long time ago full time...., 269,000 people.

[I Can't Get That Sound You Make, Out Of My Head]

Sydney, AU - 4,627,345

[Rooney]

I have always lived in small towns as I have always lived in Iowa. I have stayed out of Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Sioux City and Davenport except for job interviews and even when I was offered a teaching position in one of the school districts I turned it down. The Davenport School System is terrible and Des Moines, while the schools work well, is simply a confusing mass of people and not at all appealing to the eye.

I was born in Walcott, Iowa, with a population of less than 2,000. I lived in Durant, Iowa, for my first twelve years of life, and that town has less than 2,000 people. When I was twelve I had to move to Washington, Iowa, a town of a little over 7,000 people, and attended college in Cedar Falls, Iowa, a town with a population of about 40,000 folks.

My first job in special education was in Oelwein, Iowa, a little meth addicted town of 6,400. Needless to say I moved away from that town after the school year ended and wound up in an even more drug addicted town: Creston, Iowa, population 7,500. The principal at the middle school was a cool, former truck driver with a PhD. who loved guns, women and coming his handlebar mustache. I would have stayed in that town for the rest of my life had the BD department not been eliminated.

From Creston I applied for a job in Des Moines and was hired to teach at an alternative school. I decided to say no to that job and wound up in my new home town. Mason City, Iowa, is the home of big band man and musical maestro Meredith Wilson and also to 28,700 Iowans. Well, there is nothing half way about the Iowa way we treat you because I have chosen to stay in this town. 

[anvi]

Haven't checked the boards for a while, so I'm late.  But I thought it would be interesting anyway.  These are dated population figures, of course, and likely differ from when I lived in each place.  But, here 'goes.

Dickinson, North Dakota             17,787 (2010)                 
Grand Forks, North Dakota         52.838 (2010)                 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania     1,526,006 (2010)                 
Glenside, Pennsylvania                 8,384 (2010)
Tuebingen, Germany                  82,885 (2002)                 
Tokyo, Japan                         8,653,000 (2007-estimate)
Evanston, Illinois                        74,486 (2010)                     
Carbondale, Illinois                     25,902 (2010)
Halifax, Nova Scotia                  359,183 (2011)

Average:  1,200,052

It never ceases to amaze me how Tokyo continues to throw things in my life way, way off...    Had it not been on the list, the average population of cities I've lived in would be 268,434.  Of course, given the fact that the Shinjuku train station in downtown Tokyo sees approximately (by very rough estimates) 3.3 million people enter and exit per day, I guess this skewing of averages is understandable, at least...

[Torie]

Haven't checked the boards for a while, so I'm late.  But I thought it would be interesting anyway.  These are dated population figures, of course, and likely differ from when I lived in each place.  But, here 'goes.

Dickinson, North Dakota             17,787 (2010)                 
Grand Forks, North Dakota         52.838 (2010)                 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania     1,526,006 (2010)                 
Glenside, Pennsylvania                 8,384 (2010)
Tuebingen, Germany                  82,885 (2002)                 
Tokyo, Japan                         8,653,000 (2007-estimate)
Evanston, Illinois                        74,486 (2010)                     
Carbondale, Illinois                     25,902 (2010)
Halifax, Nova Scotia                  359,183 (2011)

Average:  1,200,052

It never ceases to amaze me how Tokyo continues to throw things in my life way, way off...    Had it not been on the list, the average population of cities I've lived in would be 268,434.  Of course, given the fact that the Shinjuku train station in downtown Tokyo sees approximately (by very rough estimates) 3.3 million people enter and exit per day, I guess this skewing of averages is understandable, at least...

Hey professor, the question was about "counties."    But one on your list is "correct" anyway.

[anvi]

Counties?  Oh, damn.  Revisions coming....

[Simfan34]

New York County, New York Bergen County, New Jersey New York County, New York

1,487,536    905,116 1,585,873

(1990) (2010) (2010)

[Cincinnatus]

Niagara, NY - (2010) 216,469
Erie, NY - (2010) 919,040

[anvi]

Stark County, North Dakota                                    24,321  (2010)
Cass County, North Dakota                                   150,230  (2010)
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania                     1,526,006  (2010)
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania                       801,502  (2010)
Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern, Germany           1,805,146 (2005)
Tokyo Prefecture, Japan                                   13.047,446 (2010)
Cook County, Illinois                                          5,194,675 (2010)
Jackson Country, Illinois                                         69,361 (2010)
Halifax County, Nova Scotia                                  403.437 (2010)

Since this is county data, the average is just too boring for me to calculate.

[Wrecking Ball and Chain]

Sioux, ND: 4,153
Burleigh, ND: 81,308
Blue Earth, MN: 64,013
Hennepin, MN: 1,152,425

Average is 324,474, which of course reflects none of them at all. Great example of the misleading average.

[Torie]

1,193,415.43.  Copy and paste on excel, and using the text to columns utility, is a beautiful thing anvi. I did it in 30 seconds flat.

[Torie]

Sioux, ND: 4,153
Burleigh, ND: 81,308
Blue Earth, MN: 64,013
Hennepin, MN: 1,152,425

Average is 324,474, which of course reflects none of them at all. Great example of the misleading average.

That is why God invented median averages.