The largest city in the US is New York City, with 7.9M residents. Los Angeles (3.8M) and Chicago (2.6M) follow, and southern cities Houston (2.3M) and Phoenix (1.7M) round out the top five.

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Data is sourced from a study of US cities (292 in 2025, though the total increases each year) with populations greater than 100,000. Each city was ranked in four categories: Violent Crime Rate, …

South America features several megacities, with Buenos Aires leading as the largest metropolitan area at 13.1M residents. Sao Paulo follows with 10M inhabitants, while Lima (7.7M) and …

To measure which cities in the United States are the poorest, data from the U.S. Census’s 2013-2017 American Community Survey was pulled. Three factors were considered: the number of …

New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago are easily the largest cities in the United States and, of these three, New York City is by far the largest, with approximately 8.6 million residents (Los …

As of 2018, there are 19,495 incorporated cities, towns and villages in the United States. 14,768 of these have populations below 5,000. Only ten have populations above 1 million and none …

Beyond Texas, the data highlights significant regional patterns, with clusters of high-growth cities emerging in the Southeast (particularly Florida and South Carolina) and the Mountain West …

To determine which cities in the United States the most dangerous, 24/7 Wall Street looked at data from the FBI’s 2018 Uniform Crime Report, including each city’s murder and non …

What is the largest US city that starts with M? The largest US city that starts with M is Memphis, Tennessee with a population of 607,581.