Urban Cluster

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Urban Cluster (UC) is a classification used by the United States Census Bureau to define major metropolitan areas. It is used to measure the size of an urban area that extends across city, state, and/or county lines. Urban clusters by definition contain fewer than 50,000 people. An urban area containing 50,000 or more people is defined as an Urbanized Area.

An urban area is defined as "core census block groups or blocks that have a population density of at least 1000 people per square mile (386 people per square kilometer) and surrounding census blocks that have an overall density of at least 500 people per square mile (193 people per square kilometer)."

See also

• Urbanized Area
• Urban area
• Rural area
• Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)

External Links

• Lists of all UCs in the US
• Maps of all UCs in the US
• Census 2000 Urban and Rural Classification