- Rogers Park has 54,000 people distributed over an area that's shy of two square miles in size. The population density is about 29,000 people per square mile.
- By comparison, Chicago as a whole has a density of about 12,000 people/mi2. So Rogers Park is about 2.5 times as dense as the city on average.
- Gainesville, FL, where I grew up, has a density of about 2,000/mi2. Clearly, simply by enumerating the differences, it's likely obvious that Gainesville and Rogers Park have disparate cultures.
- Manhattan has a density of about 73,000/mi2, so it's fair to say that the RP is dense, but isn't a substitute for Times Square.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Just How Dense is Rogers Park?
I've started researching Rogers Park for my magnum opus, and as I sort of expected, I'm not really sure where I'm going to go with this. As is the case with every bad student, my initial research went straight to an encyclopedia. One of the first facts I looked up was population and population density to compare to other places in my life. The following really has no basis on any factual narrative I wanted to construct outside of my own life, but this is my blog, so why not?
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