List of United States cities by population density

The following is a list of incorporated places in the United States with a population density of over 10,000 people per square mile. As defined by the United States Census Bureau, an incorporated place is a place that has a self-governing local government and as such has been "incorporated" by the state it is in. Each state has different laws defining how a place can be incorporated. An "incorporated place" as recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau can designate a variety of places, such as a city, town, village, borough, and township.
The other type of place defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for statistical purposes are census-designated places. Census-designated places are distinct from incorporated places because they do not have a local government and thus depend on higher government bodies, such as a county, for governance. Census-designated places are defined as being in an unincorporated area. Census-designated places that have a population density of over 10,000 people per square mile are listed in a separate table below. The five boroughs of New York City, and the census-designated places of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands that have densities over 10,000, are also listed in separate tables below.

Incorporated places with a density of over 10,000 people per square mile

The following data about the most densely populated incorporated places in the United States is from the U.S. Census Bureau and is from the 2020 U.S. census, except for the tables on Puerto Rico, which show data from the 2000 US Census. The following ranking is made up of incorporated places of any population, but also of interest may be lists compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau of all places with at least 50,000 population, arranged alphabetically by state, and ranked by total population; the population density for each place is also given in the lists.
The population density is calculated by dividing the population by the land area so that it represents the number of people living in one square mile of land area. The population densities listed in the table below do not work out to be exactly the result of dividing the listed population by the listed land area because the land areas have been rounded off to two decimal places, but the population densities were calculated before rounding the land area figures. The land area figures are calculated using the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER system. The U.S. Census Bureau has released the exact land area figures for all places in the U.S. in square meters and square miles; the exact land areas are the figures used for calculating the population densities seen in the table below.

Cities

The list below only includes incorporated places of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Unincorporated census-designated places, places in Puerto Rico, and the five boroughs of New York City are all listed in separate tables below.
Those cities that are not a part of a larger city's metropolitan area are in bold.

Incorporated place	Metro area		Population	Land area	Land area	Density	Density
Guttenberg	New York City	NJ		0.19	0.50		24,040.3
Union City	New York City	NJ			3.33		20,576.8
West New York	New York City	NJ			2.57		20,552.8
Hoboken	New York City	NJ			3.24		18,662.3
Kaser	New York City	NY			0.445		12,360.6
New York City	New York City	NY			778.16		11,313.8
Cliffside Park	New York City	NJ			2.48		10,376.7
New Square	New York City	NY	9679		0.951		10,192.1
East Newark	New York City	NJ			0.27		9,723.8
Great Neck Plaza	New York City	NY			0.805		9,276.4
Kiryas Joel	New York City	NY	32954		3.79		8,704.4
Passaic	New York City	NJ	70537		8.11		8,692.8
Sunny Isles Beach	Miami	FL	22342		2.62		8,536.0
North Bay Village	Miami	FL			0.958		8,520.3
Weehawken	New York City	NJ	17197		2.03		8,469.1
Maywood	Los Angeles	CA			3.04		8,295.6
Irvington	New York City	NJ			7.55		8,105.8
Jersey City	New York City	NJ	292449		38.19		7,658.4
Somerville	Boston	MA			10.68		7,588.2
Cudahy	Los Angeles	CA			3.05		7,463.9
Paterson	New York City	NJ			21.79		7,330.7
West Hollywood	Los Angeles	CA			4.89		7,304.7
Central Falls	Providence	RI	22583		3.09		7,302.6
San Francisco	San Francisco	CA			120.51		7,193.3
Cambridge	Boston	MA	118403		16.56		7,147.0
Chelsea	Boston	MA	40787		5.75		7,097.9
Huntington Park	Los Angeles	CA			7.79		7,040.0
South Floral Park	New York City	NY	1741		0.251		6,910.9
Fairview	New York City	NJ	15025		2.19		6,873.4
East Orange	New York City	NJ			10.17		6,842.5
Mount Vernon	New York City	NY	73893		11.38		6,495.8
Spring Valley	New York City	NY	33066		5.21		6,357.6
Millbourne	Philadelphia	PA	1212		0.192		6,323.7
Palisades Park	New York City	NJ	20292		3.21		6,323.5
Lawndale	Los Angeles	CA			5.11		6,233.9
Harrison	New York City	NJ	19450		3.14		6,201.2
Bell Gardens	Los Angeles	CA			6.37		6,199.8
Hempstead	New York City	NY	59169		9.56		6,189.9
Fort Lee	New York City	NJ	40191		6.52		6,162.8
Long Beach	New York City	NY			5.74		6,098.7
Orange	New York City	NJ	34447		5.73		6,010.0
Garfield	New York City	NJ	32655		5.47		5,972.6
Poplar Hills	Louisville	KY	380		0.065		5,868.8
Aventura	Miami	FL	40242		6.86		5,867.3
Bay Harbor Islands	Miami	FL	5922		1.026		5,768.6
Hawaiian Gardens	Los Angeles	CA	14149		2.45		5,750.5
Manorhaven	New York City	NY	6956		1.21		5,720.6
Edgewater	New York City	NJ	14336		2.51		5,700.5
Berwyn	Chicago	IL	57250		10.11		5,662.0
Cicero	Chicago	IL	85268		15.19		5,613.3
Hawthorne	Los Angeles	CA	88083		15.77		5,584.4
Everett	Boston	MA	49075		8.85		5,546.1
Boston	Boston	MA	675647		125.20		5,396.5
Lynwood	Los Angeles	CA	67265		12.54		5,365.9
Hermosa Beach	Los Angeles	CA	19728		3.69		5,326.6
South Palm Beach	Miami	FL	1471		0.28		5,291.8
Daly City	San Francisco	CA	104901		19.78		5,301.4
Prospect Park	New York City	NJ	6372		1.20		5,290.8
Port Chester	New York City	NY	31693		6.03		5,256.0
Hamtramck	Detroit	MI	28433		5.41		5,253.1
Bell	Los Angeles	CA	33559		6.50		5,162.2
Woodlynne	Philadelphia	NJ	2902		0.56		5,139.8
Stone Park	Chicago	IL	4576		0.891		5,136.1
East Lansdowne	Philadelphia	PA	2714		0.536		5,078.8
Malden	Boston	MA	66263		13.06		5,072.1
Mount Rainier	Washington, D.C.	MD	8333		1.65		5,056.3
Bellflower	Los Angeles	CA	79190		15.84		4,996.0
Newark	New York City	NJ	311549		62.53		4,982.2
Lawrence	Boston	MA	89143		17.95		4,966.7
Elmwood Park	Chicago	IL	24521		4.94		4,962.1
South Gate	Los Angeles	CA	92726		18.74		4,945.0
Darby	Philadelphia	PA	10715		2.18		4,912.1
North Bergen	New York City	NJ	63361		13.30		4,763.2
Bayonne	New York City	NJ	71686		15.08		4,754.9
Miami	Miami	FL	442241		93.23		4,743.6
San Pablo	San Francisco	CA	32127		6.80		4,734.5
Stanton	Los Angeles	CA	37962		8.03		4,728.1
Williston Park	New York City	NY	7591		1.62		4,680.1
New Hyde Park	New York City	NY	10257		2.20		4,671.5
Chicago	Chicago	IL	2746388		589.82		4,656.3
Trenton	New York City	NJ	90871		19.63		4,629.3
Wallington	New York City	NJ	11868		2.57		4,609.9
Philadelphia	Philadelphia	PA	1603797		347.98		4,608.9
Berkeley	San Francisco	CA	124321		27.02		4,602.2
Perth Amboy	New York City	NJ			12.07		4,591.2
Inglewood	Los Angeles	CA	107762		23.48		4,587.3
Key Biscayne	Miami	FL	14809		3.23		4,584.3
East Palo Alto	San Francisco	CA	30034		6.55		4,583.5
Tuckahoe	New York City	NY	7084		1.56		4,550.9
Yonkers	New York City	NY	211569		46.64		4,536.8
Valley Stream	New York City	NY	40634		9.01		4,511.2
Bogota	New York City	NJ	8778		1.96		4,489.0
Oak Park	Chicago	IL	54583		12.17		4,484.0
Belleville	New York City	NJ	38222		8.54		4,477.4
Lodi	New York City	NJ	26206		5.88		4,453.4
Redondo Beach	Los Angeles	CA	71576		16.07		4,450.2
El Monte	Los Angeles	CA			24.75		4,420.4
Roselle Park	New York City	NJ	13967		3.17		4,402.2
Floral Park	New York City	NY	16172		3.68		4,394.2
Paramount	Los Angeles	CA	53733		12.24		4,386.1
Santa Ana	Los Angeles	CA	310227		70.81		4,381.1
Albany	San Francisco	CA	20271		4.64		4,372.4
Washington	Washington, D.C.	DC	689545		158.3		4,355.4
Parkside	Philadelphia	PA	2321		0.534		4,354.4
Mineola	New York City	NY	20800		4.79		4,338.4
Elizabeth	New York City	NJ			31.91		4,303.2
Island Park	New York City	NY	4928		1.153		4,278.4
Santa Monica	Los Angeles	CA	93076		21.78		4,273.1
Harwood Heights	Chicago	IL	9065		2.14		4,242.4
Hackensack	New York City	NJ	46030		10.85		4,240.6
Lomita	Los Angeles	CA	20921		4.95		4,229.1
La Puente	Los Angeles	CA	38062		9.01		4,222.9
Cedarhurst	New York City	NY	7374		1.75		4,219.2
Victory Gardens	New York City	NJ	1582		0.38		4,212.5
Clifton Heights	Philadelphia	PA	6863		1.63		4,203.9
Baldwin Park	Los Angeles	CA	72176		17.18		4,203.2
Shrewsbury	New York City	NJ	1076		0.26		4,196.4
Alhambra	Los Angeles	CA	82868		19.76		4,193.4
Dormont	Pittsburgh	PA	8244		1.97		4,186.0
Miami Beach	Miami	FL	82890		19.92		4,160.1
Alexandria	Washington, D.C.	VA	159467		38.7		4,122.7
Asbury Park	New York City	NJ	15188		3.70		4,103.7
Kenmore	Buffalo	NY	15205		3.72		4,088.2
Norwalk	Los Angeles	CA	102773		25.14		4,086.6
New Brunswick	New York City	NJ			13.553		4,077.6
Upper Darby	Philadelphia	PA	85681		20.27		4,076.9
Gardena	Los Angeles	CA	61027		15.10		4,041.6
Providence	Providence	RI	190934		47.67		4,005.3
Hialeah	Miami	FL	223109		55.89		3,991.5
Collingdale	Philadelphia	PA	8908		2.25		3,955.7
Surfside	Miami	FL	5689		1.44		3,941.0
West Miami	Miami	FL	7233		1.84		3,939.1
Norristown	Philadelphia	PA	35748		9.10		3,926.4
Emeryville	San Francisco	CA	12905		3.30		3,923.3
Lynbrook	New York City	NY	20438		5.21		3,920.4
Artesia	Los Angeles	CA	16395		4.20		3,907.5
West Chester	Philadelphia	PA	18671		4.78		3,904.7
San Fernando	Los Angeles	CA	23946		6.15		3,901.1
Evanston	Chicago	IL	78110		20.15		3,876.9
Mount Oliver	Pittsburgh	PA	3394		0.878		3,860.1