As of 2023, Chugach State Park in Anchorage, Alaska, was the largest city park in the United States by a long shot, spanning 464,318 acres. Second in the ranking was the Great Dismal Swamp in the Coastal Plain Region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, at 113 thousand acres. A wide variety of park authorities Most parks in the U.S. are owned by the municipality, state, county, regional agency, or the federal government. Both McDowell Sonoran Preserve and South Mountain Preserve are part of the state park system along with most of the parks in the ranking. One of the more well-known park authorities is the National Park Service (NPS) – an agency of the federal government. Blue Ridge Parkway was the most visited NPS park in 2023 alongside many other well-known U.S. parks. What defines a park? Parks in the U.S. are often called a variety of names, just a few of which are: forest, reserve, preserve and wildlife management area. Sometimes the differences between parks in the U.S. can vary massively from monuments to expansive woodland. The Lincoln Memorial made the ranking of the most visited city parks in the U.S., while this may not seem like it comes under the classification of a ‘park’, it is cared for by the National Park Service.

In 2023, New York City had the highest public park and recreation spending of any city in the United States at approximately 1.49 billion U.S. dollars. Second in the ranking was Chicago, Illinois, which spent around 573 million U.S. dollars on parks and rec.

The city park with the highest annual visitation in 2023 was Central Park in New York, accounting for a total of 42 million visitors. The second most visited city park in that year was Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, with nearly half the visitation of Central Park, at 24 million.

This graph depicts the size of county-owned city parks in the U.S. in 2010. The Bear Creek Pioneers Park in Houston has an area of 2,168 acres.

This statistic shows the cities with the largest number of park playgrounds per 10,000 residents (not including playgrounds in school sites) in the United States in 2023. There were 7 park playgrounds for every 10,000 residents in Madison, Wisconsin, making it the city with the most playgrounds per 10,000 residents.

The Trust for Public Land built a comprehensive database of local parks in the nearly 14,000 cities, towns, and communities. We used census-defined urban areas to define where to collect and create local data. For each municipality, geographic boundaries were obtained from the U.S. Census 2010 Places geospatial dataset. Associated population estimates are derived from ESRI’s 2018 Demographic Forecasts. We attempted to contact each municipality with a request for their parks data. If no GIS data was provided, we created GIS data for the place based on available resources, such as park information from municipal websites, GIS data available from counties and states, and satellite imagery.

The ParkServe® platform provides information about park systems and the associated percentage of city, town and community residents within a 10-minute walk of a park. This percentage is also further broken down through several demographic lenses: race/ethnicity, age, and income. Lastly, the ParkEvaluator™ is built into the ParkServe® platform, which gives users the ability to draw in a potential park on a map and immediately see the population within a 10-minute walk. For each city, town, and community, the ParkServe® team has identified optimal potential park sites, which show approximate locations where parks would have the biggest impact on the number of people served.

This statistic shows the cities with the largest number of park playgrounds in the United States in 2023. There were 1,691 park playgrounds in New York in 2023, making it the U.S. city with the most park playgrounds.

This graph depicts the size of municipally owned city parks in the U.S. in 2010. The Cullen Park in Houston has a size of 9270 acres.

Seattle Parks and Recreation owned and managed properties within the city limits or at the borders of the city limits. SPR properties that are well outside of the city limits are not shown. For most use cases, this using this Park boundary is fine.BEWARE: Properties includes Parks Maintenance and Shop Locations, Life Estates (properties that are owned by private citizens until their passing), Properties are own by other City departments or agencies and managed by SPR, SPR owned properties that are managed by other city departments or agencies, Park leased properties, and submerged SPR properties.If a more detailed park delineation is required then use Parks Boundary Details.This is a (weekly) generalized feature class based on DPR.Parks by Park Name.

The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation maintains over 220 parks and 40 major facilities throughout the City of Vancouver. This dataset provides information of the parks and facilities that are available in them. Additional details are found in related datasets: Parks washroomsParks facilitiesParks special featuresThe parks - polygon representation dataset shows the boundaries of the parks. NoteFor advisories, please consult the press release or the official website of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. Data currencyThe extract on this website is updated weekly Websites for further information​Parks and recreation​​

A park is simply defined as a place for recreation, almost always outdoors. Wikipedia.org further defines a park as "an area of natural, semi-natural, or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. It may consist of grassy areas, rocks, soil, and trees, but may also contain buildings and other artifacts such as monuments, fountains or playground structures. In North America, many parks have fields for playing sports such as soccer, baseball and football, and paved areas for games such as basketball. Many parks have trails for walking, biking and other activities. Some parks are built adjacent to bodies of water or watercourses, and these parks may comprise a beach or boat dock area. Often, the smallest parks are in urban areas, where a park may take up only a city block or less. Urban parks often have benches for sitting and they may contain picnic tables and barbecue grills. Parks have differing rules regarding whether dogs can be brought into the park: some parks prohibit dogs; some parks allow them with restrictions (e.g., use of a leash); and some parks, which may be called "dog parks," permit dogs to run off-leash.The largest parks can be vast natural areas of hundreds of thousands of square kilometres (thousands of square miles), with abundant wildlife and natural features such as mountains and rivers. In many large parks, camping in tents is allowed with a permit. Many natural parks are protected by law, and users may have to follow restrictions (e.g., rules against open fires or bringing in glass bottles). Large national and sub-national parks are typically overseen by a park ranger or a park warden. Large parks may have areas for canoeing and hiking in the warmer months and, in some northern hemisphere countries, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in colder months.""Open space" is defined as property protected from development for the purposes of preserving the upland greenbelt, habitat, native species, or special environments. Recreation is usually allowed in these open spaces, but it is generally limited to passive recreation such walking, hiking, bicycling, etc.

In 2023, the city in the United States with the highest share of parkland was Anchorage, Alaska, where approximately 80 percent of the city was parkland. In second place, with almost half the percentage of parkland was Fremont, California, where 44 percent of the city was parkland.

The purpose of this data package is to offer demographic data for U.S. cities. The data sources are multiple, the most important one being the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. In this case, the data was organized by the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Others are the New York City Department of City Planning and Department of Parks and Recreation, data being available through the NYC Open Data.

This graph shows the cities with the most acres of parkland per 1,000 residents in the United States in 2023. In that year, Anchorage, Alaska, had the most parkland per 1,000 residents with approximately 3,022 acres of land.

Hundreds of millions of visitors travel to U.S. national parks every year to visit America's iconic landscapes. Concerns about air quality in these areas have led to strict, yet controversial pollution control policies. We document pollution trends in U.S. national parks and estimate the relationship between pollution and park visitation. From 1990-2014, average ozone concentrations in national parks were statistically indistinguishable from the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Further, relative to U.S. cities, national parks have seen only modest reductions in days with ozone concentrations exceeding levels deemed unhealthy by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We find a robust, negative relationship between in-park ozone concentrations and park visitation. Still, 35% of all national park visits occur when ozone levels are elevated.

The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation maintains over 220 parks and 40 major facilities throughout the City of Vancouver. This dataset provides a list of special features in the parks. Data currencyThe extract on this website is updated weekly.

When prioritizing regions for conservation protection, decisions are often based on the principle that a single large (SL) reserve should support more species than several small (SS) reserves of the same total area (SLOSS). This principle remains a central paradigm in conservation planning despite conflicting empirical evidence and methodological concerns. In urban areas where small parks tend to dominate and policies to promote biodiversity are becoming increasingly popular, determining the most appropriate prioritization method is critical. Here, we document the role of SLOSS in defining the seasonal diversity of birds in 475 parks in 21 US cities. Collections of small parks were consistently associated with higher species richness, spatial turnover, and rarity. Collections of both small and large parks were associated with higher phylogenetic and functional diversity whose patterns varied across seasons and cities. Thus, collections of small parks are a reliable source of species ric..., , , # Collections of small urban parks consistently support higher species richness but not higher phylogenetic or functional diversity

Three CSV files containing city and urban park information, bird occurrence data, and five avian diversity metrics.

Description of the data and file structure

urban-park-id-area.csv

The names of the 21 cities and 475 urban parks and each park's identification number (POLYFID) and surface area in square meters.

species-composition.csv

Species composition of bird assemblages in 475 urban parks (POLYFID) during four seasons: (1) nonbreeding, (2) spring migration, (3) breeding, and (4) autumn migration.

diversity-metrics.csv

Five diversity metrics calculated for bird assemblages in 475 urban parks (POLYFID) during four seasons: (1) nonbreeding, (2) spring migration, (3) breeding, and (4) autumn migration. The diversity metrics include: species richness (S), phylogenetic diversity (PD), mean pairwise distance (MPD), mean nearest taxon di...

Locations of Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) responsibilities within the city limits. SPR location responsibilities may include: ownership, leases, maintenance, temporary transfer of jurisdiction, life estate, crew quarters, headquarters, storage facilities, tidelands, joint use agreements. This is the detailed transactions level park GIS layer. It is the most current Parks GIS layer. Park uses can be sorted using the "Park Use" field. If you just want the Park outlines (boundaries) then use DPR.ParksBND.

About this dataset

Context

The dataset tabulates the Park City population distribution across 18 age groups. It lists the population in each age group along with the percentage population relative of the total population for Park City. The dataset can be utilized to understand the population distribution of Park City by age. For example, using this dataset, we can identify the largest age group in Park City.

Key observations

The largest age group in Park City, KS was for the group of age 25 to 29 years years with a population of 709 (9.18%), according to the ACS 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates. At the same time, the smallest age group in Park City, KS was the 80 to 84 years years with a population of 32 (0.41%). Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates

Age groups:

• Under 5 years
• 5 to 9 years
• 10 to 14 years
• 15 to 19 years
• 20 to 24 years
• 25 to 29 years
• 30 to 34 years
• 35 to 39 years
• 40 to 44 years
• 45 to 49 years
• 50 to 54 years
• 55 to 59 years
• 60 to 64 years
• 65 to 69 years
• 70 to 74 years
• 75 to 79 years
• 80 to 84 years
• 85 years and over

Variables / Data Columns

• Age Group: This column displays the age group in consideration
• Population: The population for the specific age group in the Park City is shown in this column.
• % of Total Population: This column displays the population of each age group as a proportion of Park City total population. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

Recommended for further research

This dataset is a part of the main dataset for Park City Population by Age. You can refer the same here