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boston is not the capital of massachusetts 100.11.38.54 (talk) 05:40, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
The numbers in the leftmost column of the table should be pegged to the corresponding cities because they represent the cities' rankings by population, but that column gets out of synch with the cities if a user sorts the columns in some other way. For example, if I sort the table by state, I'd want 1 to remain with New York, 2 to remain with Los Angeles, and so on, but instead Anchorage becomes 1 and Huntsville becomes 2 because the leftmost column doesn't reorder. Is there a way to change this? RCTodd (talk) 16:31, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Can you put San Juan on the list for list of cities by population Tramontana 4217 (talk) 13:53, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Can they have Cities over 80,000 people in the U.S.A. of an article Tramontana 4217 (talk) 23:46, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
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tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).Can there be population of U.S. cities over 80,000 people by 2024 Tramontana 4217 (talk) 23:49, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
San Jose is still on it and Austin is not, i tried and failed to edit it, maybe someone else knows how! Km415 (talk) 22:43, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
I noticed because my hometown of Independence, MO, which is #238 I think, says -1.47% instead of -1.49%, which is what it should be. The problem is that whoever is putting in the numbers is subtracting the new population from the old population and then dividing by the new population, but the number should be divided by the old population. The same goes for percent increase, the equation just represents how much the new number has changed relative to the original number.
For example, if the current population is 123,456; and the old population was 124,999; then the calculation should be:
((123,456 - 124,999)/123,456) * 100
which equals approximately -1.25%. In the article, the population decrease is incorrectly calculated as
((123,456 - 124,999)/124,999) * 100
which equals approximately -1.23%, which is incorrect.
It should be divided by the old population because the percent decrease is new population relative to the old population.
It's not just the Independence, MO listing that has this problem. I tested out at least 5 others, and they had the same one. But I don't want to change it and then get it reverted by someone thinking I'm doing the calculation wrong, which I'm not. Thomasbeem (talk) 06:57, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
The 2023 Census Estimates have been released today. I am in the process of updating this page. It should be fully updated by tomorrow at the latest. Coulraphobic123 (talk) 16:31, 16 May 2024 (UTC)