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According to the 2020 US Census, about 80% live in an urban area. However, the definition is not exactly what people think of when you say “urban”.

In 2020, the census lists 2,611 urban areas, including areas with a few thousand people.

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

Shouldn’t be too hard to break this down with a more colloquial definition (say, areas over 500k or 750k people). I’m just not at a real computer :)

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Calumet park is a village right next to Chicago with under 7000 people. Northfield village has under 6000 people and it's located within about 15 miles of Chicago. It wasn't until I was about 18 that I realized what I thought was Chicago were actually small towns/villages. There's a whole slew of small villages next to or "in" larger cities.

Yes; the ordinary thing to compare is MSAs, which take this into account; Calumet Park (and Blue Island and Oak Lawn) are all part of the Chicago MSA.

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