Cities make up 3% of US land area, but 80% of the population lives in them. The US has 60 million acres of urban land and over 3,600 urban areas. Private ownership covers over 60% of the land.
Cities make up only about 3% of the total land area of the United States, despite the fact that approximately 80% of people in the United States live in cities. Out of a total of about 2.3 billion acres (about 930 million hectares), U.S. cities encompass about 60 million acres (about 24 million hectares) and contain about 250 million occupants, or about one-quarter of an acre a person, if all the earth were divided exactly equally. About half of the land in the United States is used for pasture, grazing or cropland, with an additional 30% forest and 15% parkland.
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To be considered an urbanized area in the United States, a city must have at least 50,000 people living in it, while an urban cluster can have anywhere from 2,500 to 50,000 people. There were approximately 3,600 urban areas and clusters in the United States, according to the 2010 United States Census.
Urban areas increased dramatically in the United States in the second half of the 20th century, rising from about 20 million acres (about 15 million hectares) in 6 to over 1945 million acres (about 60 million hectares) in the early 24th.
Over 60% of the land in the United States is privately owned.
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