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US Cities With Substantially
Same Borders: 1950-2000:
Change in Population Density

City 1950 2000 Change
New York 26,046 26,429 1.5%
Somerville 24,878 18,537 -25.5%
Jersey City 19,933 16,000 -19.7%
Cambridge 18,750 15,781 -15.8%
Newark 18,208 11,375 -37.5%
Chicago 17,409 12,746 -26.8%
Boston 17,043 12,169 -28.6%
Paterson 16,548 17,738 7.2%
San Francisco 16,489 16,532 0.3%
Philadelphia 15,348 11,236 -26.8%
Buffalo 14,872 7,217 -51.5%
Camden 14,205 9,091 -36.0%
St. Louis 14,049 5,622 -60.0%
Providence 13,911 9,405 -32.4%
Detroit 13,214 6,864 -48.1%
Washington 13,148 9,316 -29.1%
Pittsburgh 12,537 6,025 -51.9%
Cleveland 12,200 6,208 -49.1%
Baltimore 11,875 8,057 -32.2%
Reading 11,224 8,265 -26.4%
Berkeley 10,857 9,810 -9.6%
Wilmington 10,278 6,759 -34.2%
Hartford 10,172 7,052 -30.7%
Bridgeport 9,875 8,750 -11.4%
Minneapolis 9,491 6,964 -26.6%
Elizabeth 9,262 9,918 7.1%
Rochester 9,222 6,145 -33.4%
Syracuse 8,735 5,857 -33.0%
New Haven 8,677 6,561 -24.4%
Average 13,680 10,148 -25.8%
       
000s
Cities with more than 100,000 residents in 1950 with a population density greater than 7,500.

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