Biggest U.S. Cities as a Percent of Their State

Name the U.S. cities whose urban areas make up at least 25% of the total population of their state.

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Percentages with an asterisk are estimations as some of the urban area goes into another state.

2020 U.S. Census data.

Inspired by JPin8497's quiz which uses city proper data.

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%	State	City
87.5*	Rhode Island	Providence
70.8	Nevada	Las Vegas
64.2*	New York	New York
63.4*	Illinois	Chicago
62.3	Massachusetts	Boston
58.6	Hawaii	Honolulu
55.6	Arizona	Phoenix
51.1	Minnesota	Minneapolis
46.7	Georgia	Atlanta
46.5	Colorado	Denver
46.0	Washington	Seattle
41.1*	Oregon	Portland
38.6*	Nebraska	Omaha

%	State	City
37.5	Michigan	Detroit
36.4	New Mexico	Albuquerque
36.0	Utah	Salt Lake City
35.8	Maryland	Baltimore
33.9	Alaska	Anchorage
32.0*	Pennsylvania	Philadelphia
31.0	California	Los Angeles
30.8*	Missouri	St. Louis
28.2	Florida	Miami
27.1	Connecticut	Hartford
25.4	Connecticut	Bridgeport
25.1	Indiana	Indianapolis

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3 Comments

Level 68

Jun 5, 2023

Two different answers for Connecticut.

Level 77

Jun 5, 2023

Good to know your eyes work, thanks for sharing!

Level 73

Jun 6, 2023

What's really wild is that, at least by metro areas, a higher percentage of New Jersey's population is in the NYC metro than the percentage of NY that is.