I am beginning to collect some statistics about Seattle and Vancouver, BC (of course, not WA) to figure out why one seems so great to live in and one seems so ... not so great to live in. My first piece of data is population. After slogging around for 10 minutes in the government websites, I went to Wikipedia and found the same information but better organized and all in one place.
Seattle pop: 578K
Seattle land area: 217 sqkm (excludes 152 sqkm of water)
Seattle density: 2,663 people/sqkm
Greater Seattle pop: 3.8MM
Greater Seattle area: 21,202 sqkm
Greater Seattle density: 179 people/sqkm
Vancouver pop: 545K
Vancouver area: 114 sqkm
Vancouver density: 4,780 people/sqkm
Greater Vancouver pop: 2.0MM
Greater Vancouver area: 2,879 sqkm
Greater Vancouver density: 694 people/sqkm
So Seattle city is half as dense as Vancouver city, while Greater Vancouver is 3-4x denser than Greater Seattle . This supports my unscientific observation that Seattle has more sprawl than Vancouver.
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