Ranking of United States Cities and Places By Population Density from Census 2020
Updated on October 18, 2023.
According to the data from the US 2020 Census, as at April 2020, among all US cities and places, Friendship Heights Village CDP, MD had the highest population density per square mile (90.78K people per sqr mile), followed by Guttenberg town, NJ (62.26K people per sqr mile), Union City city, NJ (53.29K people per sqr mile), and West New York town, NJ (53.22K people per sqr mile).
The chart below shows the top 10 US cities and places with high population density, and the table below shows the ranking of the top 500 US cities and places.
You can see links at the bottom of the page for the ranking of cities and places by population for each state.
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Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of US Cities and Places By Population Density from Census 2020
Rank | Place | Population Density |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friendship Heights Village CDP, MD | 90,780.50 |
| 2 | Guttenberg town, NJ | 62,259.48 |
| 3 | Union City city, NJ | 53,293.32 |
| 4 | West New York town, NJ | 53,216.92 |
| 5 | Hoboken city, NJ | 48,327.07 |
| 6 | Kaser village, NY | 31,944.21 |
| 7 | New York city, NY | 29,303.22 |
| 8 | Isla Vista CDP, CA | 28,119.00 |
| 9 | Cliffside Park borough, NJ | 26,881.90 |
| 10 | New Square village, NY | 26,349.20 |
| 11 | East Newark borough, NJ | 25,301.48 |
| 12 | Great Neck Plaza village, NY | 24,025.76 |
| 13 | Kiryas Joel village, NY | 22,544.33 |
| 14 | Passaic city, NJ | 22,514.62 |
| 15 | Sunny Isles Beach city, FL | 22,108.18 |
| 16 | North Bay Village city, FL | 22,067.55 |
| 17 | El Monte Mobile Village CDP, CA | 21,763.43 |
| 18 | Maywood city, CA | 21,453.91 |
| 19 | Walnut Park CDP, CA | 20,301.27 |
| 20 | Langley Park CDP, MD | 20,243.36 |
| 21 | Jersey City city, NJ | 19,835.72 |
| 22 | Somerville city, MA | 19,658.72 |
| 23 | Cudahy city, CA | 19,393.14 |
| 24 | Paterson city, NJ | 18,985.86 |
| 25 | West Hollywood city, CA | 18,944.03 |
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Ranking of Cities and Places By Population Density for each US State from Census 2020
Use the following links to see the ranking of cities and places by population density for each of the following states from the US 2020 Census.