Does anyone know of a source to find how many cities there are in the us? ?

Question

And cities meaning a city, town, village, etc. I know to look on the census.gov website, but I can't find this info?

Thank you for your help

Answer 1

Places: (25,375 records) meaning 25,375 cities, towns, villages, burgs etc.  This comes from The U.S. Census "American Factfinder" site.

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/...

Answer 2

Whatever Max says - he always votes for himself twice anyway

U.S. Census: Census 2000 Gazetteer Files: compressed version of Places

http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazettee...

After processing the file with a custom-made script, I find that nine

types of places are listed by the Census: borough, Census Designated

Place (CDP), city, comunidad, county, municipality, town, urbana, and

village. I consider that three of these -- borough, CDP, and county --

do not qualify as self-governing entities. For each of the six remaining

types of place, below are the number identified as such.

    city        10,016

    comunidad      147

    municipality     1

    town         4,431

    urbana          78

    village      3,770

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    total       18,443

Therefore there are 18,443 cities, towns, villages,

and other such governing groups in the United States. In case you're

wondering, the sole place identified as a municipality is Anchorage.