Urbanization Tables.

For a while I've been tabulating how "urbanized" each region of the country was. These are some of the figure I've come up with. It should be said I'm using the "old states" that is, those that exist in the contemporary industrial societies. New borders would of course likely have a profound effect on what cities get the most traffic. I divided them into four sections: The North, the South, the "Near West" and the "Transalp" region. Notably, I put Midwest states in Italics--I could very well have put Wisconsin and Illinois in the "Near West" section, but I ultimately I decided if it had a capital to serve as a Non-Denom HQ I would include it. Now I could be off, overall, by a million or so people, but it generally figures. I definitely feel comfortable with the following rank: Ohio at the top at around four million. California, New York, and Georgia at or slightly in excess of 3 million. Texas somewhere in the 3 million range, then Michigan between 2 and a half and 3 million. Alabama a little after that, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Indiana, 

I've also added up the urban population of each state--this has been a little easier to measure, at least in terms of counting all the cities in excess of 25,000. The top ten would be California at 283 thousand, New York 242, Louisiana at 229, Ohio 191, Oregon 166, Kentucky 128, Pennsylvania 115 (Note, this map also has an unnamed city, possibly Wilmington, which may put the it at 140 thousand), Tennessee 114, Alabama 112, and Utah/New Mexico rounding out at 102 thousand.

Then in terms of which states have the highest urbanization, that is, the percentage of their population that lives in the biggest cities, it follows; Rhode Island at 31%, Utah 25%, Oregon  and New Mexico at 20%,  Louisiana at 16%, Idaho 12%, California  and Washington 9%, Massachusetts at 8%, at New York somewhere close to that. Notice that Western America, with a lot of deserts states really fills out the list, and New England makes a strong presence here. In fact, I'm kind of doing a guess for Rhode Island, since it's actually very small even by the standards of medieval polities, and simply calculated 60 people per square mile. The twenty five thousand that live in Providence may count towards the population, or may be a distinct figure that isn't taken into account when tallying other state populations because it usually wouldn't move the needle too much. Either way, it would still probably the be the most urbanized. If one wants to rank the most urbanized states with a population over 750,000, it would be Louisiana, California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Maryland, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. 

Some interesting takeaways is that it's sort of surprising that Ohio and New Jersey, both at 4% are not particularly urbanized, even though the former has one of the largest cities in America (It should be said, that that graphics for the biggest three cities are "maxed out". Cincinnati's population could well be in the hundreds of thousands.) and New Jersey is still pretty densely populated (But then, it also remains a feudal state a sea of republics, so perhaps it ultimately makes sense.) In general, it's possible if not for the Cowboy hordes the region would have much bigger cities, especially as we go further down south they really begin to pop on Mississippi River tributaries. Louisiana is very noticeable, both for the entire eastern half of continent, and especially for the south. Besides Kentucky, which is something of a "border area" that is joined with Ohio into a single kingdom, the South, particularly the Old South, is fairly unurban even for the standards of the time. One might suppose the area is a widening of a larger New Orleans-inspired cities, and perhaps even something of a distinct civilization in and of itself.