A Census report from 2010, the beginning of Kolko’s period of study, found that the Twin Cities’ population-weighted density is about 3,400 people per square mile. That’s compared to about ...

yet its density trendline was in line with the dense and increasingly denser places of the East and West coasts. Between 2010 and 2016, the Twin Cities metro area population grew by 6 percent.

A Census report from 2010, the beginning of Kolko’s period of study, found that the Twin Cities’ population-weighted density is about 3,400 people per square mile. That’s compared to about ...