01-12-2014, 09:01 PM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
[quote=Mike Johnson]
LA is massive, and so diverse that you really cannot generalize.
It's population density is much lower than most of the cities in the overlay.
S.F. -17,620/sq mi
L.A.* - _ 526/sq mi
*Greater_Los_Angeles_Area
Sure, but you're comparing one city to an expansive metropolitan area with a whole slew of cities and even an island 26 miles off shore.
The population density of the actual city of LA is like 7500 per square mile.
Koreatown: 42,000 people per square mile
Westlake: 38,000
East Hollywood: 31,000
You can carve out a section of the city of Los Angeles, stretching from Koreatown to Watts. 43 square miles, with a population of 900,000. In other words, that dense cluster holds about a quarter of LA's population in less than 10% of its area.
That dense cluster is also smaller than the city of San Francisco, yet it holds more people. And that's just a cluster of contiguous neighborhoods all within the city of Los Angeles.