How many total cities are in The United States?

Question

including villages and small towns.

Answer 1

The U.S. Census counted 25,375 total places in 2000.  There are nine types of places listed by the Census: borough, census designated place (CDP), city, community, municipality, town, urbana, and village.

Answer 2

I have found possibly 27312 city, town, county or settlements base on GNS database and Zipcode database which is a official source from US Mail.

I am not saying that this is the absolute truth, but it's close enough. I am still in the validation process, but if someone as a better number I would be interested in knowing how they got to there number and if they excluded or included some special cases.

Thanks

Answer 3

Whatever the number, keep in mind that a "city" is a specific kind of municipal entity, with the definition varying from state to state.  In NY for instance, the state is divided into counties, and the counties into cities and towns, with villages created at local level for home rule authority and sanctioned by the state legislature.  CDPs (census designated places can be cities, villages or neighborhoods) ZIP codes are not units of geography at all, but just collections of delivery points (NEVER use ZIP codes as geographic units).  In Virginia, cities can be completely independednt of counties (Norfolk, Virginia Beach).  In other places, for practical administrative  purposes, cities may incorporate an entire county (Jacksonville, Fla, did it and is now the largest city in the lower 48 states in land area).  Sorry to not answer your question, just wanted to point out some issues with the answers you will get.

Answer 4

we have villages in the US?

Answer 5

I gave up counting, but here is a website you can check to see how many cities, towns, and villages.  They are broken down by each state, as well as the population for each city/town/village.

http://www.city-data.com/

Answer 6

19,429!