Top 100 Cities By Population
Highlights
- United States municipal elections in 2017
- Partisanship in United States municipal elections
- Municipal elections in Los Angeles, California
- Municipal elections in New York, New York
- Municipal elections in Omaha, Nebraska
- Municipal elections in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Municipal elections in San Antonio, Texas
- Largest cities in the United States by population
- Large counties in the United States by population
- Analysis of spending in America's largest cities
- Preemption conflicts between state and local governments
- Sanctuary policy preemption conflicts between the federal and local governments
Municipal Government fast facts
Ballotpedia covers the 100 largest cities and 17 of the largest counties in the country. Here are some fast facts about those municipalities.
- 61,325,698 (19.9 percent) of the 308,745,538 people in the United States lived in the country's 100 largest cities as of the 2010 census.
- California (17), Texas (13) and Florida (6) are the three states with the most cities in the top 100. Sixteen states have no city in the top 100.
- 46,710,856 (15.1 percent) of the 308,745,538 people in the United States lived in the 17 counties covered by Ballotpedia as of the 2010 census.
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