Trying to Calculate Population density Across All Places

I am trying to find or calculate population density for all Places in the US. I can find the population for these in a table like B01001 but I'm not sure if the land area is available in any form through one of the published tables.

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  • Hi Cliff, I actually just did this calculation when creating this GIS feature layer of the new Demographic and Housing Characteristics (2020 Census DHC) for the three different place geographies (incorporated places, Census Designated places, and consolidated cities).  The field in here is called P001_calc_pctPopDensity, People per sq. kilometer, and I calculated it this way: round(1,000,000 * (P0010001 / AREALAND), 1).  If you have an ArcGIS Online account, you can sign in and export these tables to csv or whatever format you like.

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  • Hi Cliff, I actually just did this calculation when creating this GIS feature layer of the new Demographic and Housing Characteristics (2020 Census DHC) for the three different place geographies (incorporated places, Census Designated places, and consolidated cities).  The field in here is called P001_calc_pctPopDensity, People per sq. kilometer, and I calculated it this way: round(1,000,000 * (P0010001 / AREALAND), 1).  If you have an ArcGIS Online account, you can sign in and export these tables to csv or whatever format you like.

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