Some population estimates for territories are from the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. Population data are for the year 2023 and area data are for the year 2010. Data are from the US Census unless otherwise specified. Population density is defined as the population divided by land area. States and territories by population density
On the other hand, it is over 8 times higher than that of Canada and over 9 times higher than that of Australia. is 1/15 that of South Korea and 1/12 that of India and the Netherlands. For comparison, the population density of the U.S. There are large, sparsely populated areas in parts of the US, like the east-to-west stretch extending from the outskirts of Seattle all the way to Minneapolis, or the north-to-south portion from northern Montana to southern New Mexico, excluding Denver. The following map, from Vivid Maps, shows the population density of the United States from 1790 until 2010. The population density of the United States is lower than that of many other countries because of the United States' large land area. It also includes a sortable table of density by states, territories, divisions, and regions by population rank and land area, and a sortable table for density by states, divisions, regions, and territories in square miles and square kilometers. This is a list of the 50 states, the 5 territories, and the District of Columbia by population density, population size, and land area. Map of states shaded by population density (2020) Figure 1 lists the 12 American cities among the top 50 in 2020 population that had a population density of 7,500 persons or more per square mile in 2020.Nearly all of them gained population and housing units over the 200020 decades.