Boomburb is a neologism for a large, rapidly growing city that remains essentially suburban in character even as it reaches populations more typical of urban core cities. Like edge city, an older and more widely accepted term, it describes a relatively recent phenomenon in North America.
Boomburbs are defined as incorporated places in top 50 Metropolitan areas in the United States having more than 100,000 residents that are not the core cities in their metropolitan areas and have maintained double-digit rates of population growth (10% or more) over consecutive censuses between 1970 and 2000.
List of boomburbsEdit
- Chula Vista, Corona, Costa Mesa, Daly City, Elk Grove, Escondido, Fontana, Fremont, Fullerton, Irvine, Lancaster, Moreno Valley, Orange, Oceanside, Ontario, Oxnard, Palmdale, Pleasanton, Rancho Cordova, Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santa Clarita, Santa Rosa, Simi Valley, Sunnyvale, Temecula, Thousand Oaks
- Other States
The boomburbs listed above are based on the populations of cities determined by and definitions of metropolitan areas used in the 2000 Census. Boomburbs occur mostly in the Southwest, with almost half in California alone.
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