muon2
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« on: January 11, 2019, 12:21:38 PM » |
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As Griff says, there's no clear answer on what is suburban. It can either mean the communities outside of the central city, or lower density areas within the urbanized metro area. The community definition is much broader, because it places communities like Cambridge MA and Oak Park IL as suburbs since they aren't Boston or Chicago.
The density definition gives a better match to what feels like a suburb. In making the UCCs we identified counties in a Census metro area where the urbanized population either exceeded 25K or 40% of the county population. Those can be divided by density, perhaps with a line at 2000/sq mi or perhaps 1000/sq km.
Part of the answer depends on what info you want to extract about them.
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