Urban population

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-002046",
  "term": "Urban population",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "All people living in a territory encompassing at least 2,500 people, 1,500 of whom reside outside institutional group quarters.\n\nNote: For the 2010 census, the Census Bureau redefined the classification of urban areas to “a densely settled core of census tracts and/or census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent territory containing nonresidential urban land uses as well as territory with low population density included to link outlying densely settled territory with the densely settled core.”\n\nSee also rural population.\n\nFor an example of quality adjustment, see Quality adjustment in the CPI.",
  "see_also": [
    "Rural population"
  ],
  "references": [
    "BLS Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/urban-population/"
}