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PURPLE - States with 1,000 or more people per square mile.
BLUE - States with 500 to 999 people per square mile.
GREEN - States with 250 to 499 people per square mile.
YELLOW - States with 100 to 249 people per square mile.
ORANGE - States with 50 to 99 people per square mile.
RED - States with 10 to 49 people per square mile.
BROWN - States with less than 10 people per square mile.
* - Denotes that ties between states are broken by decimal points.
Notes
Numbers on the map are each state's ranking in population density.
Numbers on the list are people per square mile rounded to the nearest whole number.
The population density of Washington DC is 9,857 people per square mile.
The population density of the United States is 87 people per square mile.
Cool post. Very interesting to see the numbers (and thanks for including DC for comparison).
I tend to like the feel of the states ranking around 10-20. There are plenty of people and urban developments, but you can also find some wide open spaces when you want.
New Jersey is too crowded and unique... they have Bergen County with only county that still has blue laws in North America where everything is closed on Sundays by law... also plenty of malls with no sales tax on shoes and clothes. I love NJ !
Removing NYC from NY State, you'd have 201 people per square mile. Puts NY State smack in the middle of the population density of Virginia and North Carolina.
NJ is interesting too- Guttenberg, NJ is the most densely populated place in the US (beats NYC by a landslide): 56,000 people per square mile. While Washington Township, in Burlington County, has 6 people per square mile. The "downtown" so to speak can only be reached via sugar sand roads through a stunted tree forest.
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