This statistic provides the share of the total land area that is built-up in the 25 largest cities around the world in 2015. As of this year, about 82.24 percent of Los Angeles' land area was considered built-up.

Important Note: This item is in mature support as of June 2023 and will retire in December 2025. A new version of this item is available for your use.The layers going from 1:1 to 1:1.5M present the 2010 Census Urbanized Areas (UA) and Urban Clusters (UC). A UA consists of contiguous, densely settled census block groups (BGs) and census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements (1000 people per square mile (ppsm) / 500 ppsm), along with adjacent densely settled census blocks that together encompass a population of at least 50,000 people. A UC consists of contiguous, densely settled census BGs and census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent densely settled census blocks that together encompass a population of at least 2,500 people, but fewer than 50,000 people. The dataset covers the 50 States plus the District of Columbia within United States. The layer going over 1:1.5M presents the urban areas in the United States derived from the urban areas layer of the Digital Chart of the World (DCW). It provides information about the locations, names, and populations of urbanized areas for conducting geographic analysis on national and large regional scales. To download the data for this layer as a layer package for use in ArcGIS desktop applications, refer to USA Census Urban Areas.

This resource is a member of a series. The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.After each decennial census, the Census Bureau delineates urban areas that represent densely developed territory, encompassing residential, commercial, and other nonresidential urban land uses. In general, this territory consists of areas of high population density and urban land use resulting in a representation of the urban footprint. There are 2,646 Urban Areas (UAs) in this data release with either a minimum population of 5,000 or a housing unit count of 2,000 units. Each urban area is identified by a 5-character numeric census code that may contain leading zeroes.

In 2023, China's cities made up one fourth of the global land area consisted of built-up urban areas with populations of 500,000 and more. India's urban areas made up more than 10 percent of the land area classified as large urban cities worldwide.

United States US: Built Up Area: % of Total Land data was reported at 1.790 % in 2014. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.500 % for 2000. United States US: Built Up Area: % of Total Land data is updated yearly, averaging 1.500 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2014, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.790 % in 2014 and a record low of 1.170 % in 1990. United States US: Built Up Area: % of Total Land data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.OECD.GGI: Environmental: Land Resources: OECD Member: Annual.

Area < 0.4 km2 or population >100 but < 5000 inhabitants. All municipalities and other built-up areas estimated to be important by their number of inhabitants and/or their outstanding localisation. Those built-up areas, which have less than 100 inhabitants but are main villages or cities of the regional/local administrative units, are included. The NAMN1 attribute stores the name of the populated place in the official primary language spoken in that populated place and administratively relevant.This dataset is provided by Tailte Éireann

Built-up Areas in Nepal as polygons.

Permanent private households by year built by Built Up Urban Area. (Census 2022 Theme 6 Table 2 )Census 2022 table 6.2 is permanent private households by year built. Details include private households by year built, number of households and number of persons. Census 2022 theme 6 is Housing. Built Up Areas (BUAs) are a new type of urban geography that define towns. They are the result of a collaboration between the CSO, Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. BUAs are made up of whole Small Areas which eliminates the possibility of statistical disclosure. Coordinate reference system: Irish Transverse Mercator (EPSG 2157). These boundaries are based on 20m generalised boundaries sourced from Tailte Éireann Open Data Portal. CSO Urban Areas 2022

The Global Human Settlement Layer: Population and Built-Up Estimates, and Degree of Urbanization Settlement Model Grid data set provides gridded data on human population (GHS-POP), built-up area (GHS-BUILT), and degree of urbanization (GHS-SMOD) across four time periods: 1975, 1990, 2000, and 2014 (BUILT) or 2015 (POP, SMOD). GHS-BUILT describes the percent built-up area for each 30 arc-second grid cell (approximately 1 km at the equator) based on Landsat imagery from each of the four time periods. GHS-POP consists of census data from the 2010 round of global census from Gridded Population of the World, Version 4, Revision 10 (GPWv4.10) spatially-allocated within census Units based on the percent built-up areas from GHS-BUILT. GHS-SMOD uses GHS-BUILT and GHS-POP in order to develop a standardized classification of degree of urbanization grid. The original data from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC-EC) has been combined into a single data package in GeoTIFF format and reprojected from Mollweide Equal Area into WGS84 at 9 arc-second and 30 arc-second horizontal resolutions in order to support integration with a variety of global raster data sets.

Private households by size by Built Up Urban Area. (Census 2022 Theme 5 Table 2 )Census 2022 table 5.2 is private households by size. Details include private households by size, number of households and number of persons. Census 2022 theme 5 is Private Households. Built Up Areas (BUAs) are a new type of urban geography that define towns. They are the result of a collaboration between the CSO, Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. BUAs are made up of whole Small Areas which eliminates the possibility of statistical disclosure. Coordinate reference system: Irish Transverse Mercator (EPSG 2157). These boundaries are based on 20m generalised boundaries sourced from Tailte Éireann Open Data Portal. CSO Urban Areas 2022

How would you define the boundaries of a town or city in England and Wales in 2016? Maybe your definition would be based on its population size, geographic extent or where the industry and services are located. This was a question the ONS had to consider when creating a new statistical geography called Towns and Cities. In reality, the ability to delimit the boundaries of a city or town is difficult! Major Towns and Cities The new statistical geography, Towns and Cities has been created based on population size and the extent of the built environment. It contains 112 towns and cities in England and Wales, where the residential and/or workday population > 75,000 people at the 2011 Census. It has been constructed using the existing Built-Up Area boundary set produced by Ordnance Survey in 2011. This swipe map shows where the towns and cities and built-up areas are different. Just swipe the bar from left to right. The blue polygons are the towns and cities and the purple polygons are the built-up areas.

These are generalised polygons representing built-up areas for use at smaller scales.

This layer presents the Census 2010 Urbanized Areas (UA) and Urban Clusters (UC). A UA consists of contiguous, densely settled census block groups (BGs) and census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements (1000ppsm /500ppsm), along with adjacent densely settled census blocks that together encompass a population of at least 50,000 people. A UC consists of contiguous, densely settled census BGs and census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent densely settled census blocks that together encompass a population of at least 2,500 people, but fewer than 50,000 people. The dataset covers the 50 States plus the District of Columbia within United States.

Explore urban areas around the world, including their layout, size, and other factors. The activity uses a web-based map and is tied to the AP Human Geography benchmarks. Learning outcomes:Students will be able to locate urban areas and factors of urbanization.Students will be able to identify characteristics and examples of edge cities.Find more advanced human geography geoinquiries and explore all geoinquiries at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries

Population aged 5 years and over by means of travel to work, school or college by Built Up Urban Area. (Census 2022 Theme 11 Table 1 )Census 2022 table 11.1 is population aged 5+ by means of travel to work, school or college. Attributes include a breakdown of population by means of travel to work, school or college. Census 2022 theme 11 is Commuting, Working from Home and Childcare. Built Up Areas (BUAs) are a new type of urban geography that define towns. They are the result of a collaboration between the CSO, Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. BUAs are made up of whole Small Areas which eliminates the possibility of statistical disclosure. Coordinate reference system: Irish Transverse Mercator (EPSG 2157). These boundaries are based on 20m generalised boundaries sourced from Tailte Éireann Open Data Portal. CSO Urban Areas 2022

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for built up areas in England and Wales as at 2024. The built up area boundaries are generalised and created using an automated approach based on a 25m grid squares (BGG).Only the latest versions of the products are available on the OS DataHub whereas we have the 2011 built-up areas, 2022 built up areas and these ones.This file has been created from OS Open Built Up Areas. Further information about this product can be found in our FAQ document or from Ordnance Survey’s product information page.Please note that this product contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/main_ONS_BUA_2024_EW/FeatureServerREST URL of WFS Server – https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/Built_Up_Areas_2024_Boundaries_EW_BGG/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilitiesREST URL of MapServer – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/Built_Up_Areas_(2024)_Boundaries_EW_BGG/MapServer

This point shapefile represents built up areas (areas containing a concentration of buildings and other structures) in Uruguay. This layer is part of Global Map Uruguay version 2.

Nigeria NG: Built Up Area: % of Total Land data was reported at 0.810 % in 2014. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.650 % for 2000. Nigeria NG: Built Up Area: % of Total Land data is updated yearly, averaging 0.650 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2014, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.810 % in 2014 and a record low of 0.480 % in 1990. Nigeria NG: Built Up Area: % of Total Land data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Nigeria – Table NG.OECD.GGI: Environmental: Land Resources: Non OECD Member: Annual.

Population by religion by Built Up Urban Area. (Census 2022 Theme 2 Table 4 )Census 2022 table 2.4 is the total population by religion. Details include population by religion. Census 2022 theme 2 is Migration, Ethnicity, Religion and Foreign Languages. Built Up Areas (BUAs) are a new type of urban geography that define towns. They are the result of a collaboration between the CSO, Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. BUAs are made up of whole Small Areas which eliminates the possibility of statistical disclosure. Coordinate reference system: Irish Transverse Mercator (EPSG 2157). These boundaries are based on 20m generalised boundaries sourced from Tailte Éireann Open Data Portal. CSO Urban Areas 2022

Multi-temporal city data on a) Annual land consumption rate (%), b) population growth rate (%), c) ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate, and d) built up area per capita.