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Montreal: University capital of North America
Published: 12 January 2000
Table 1 : The thirty largest metropolitan areas in North America
These populations statistics are from:
1) US Census bureau population estimates for 1996.
2) Statistics Canada census survey 1996 of city populations(most recent)
3) US Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 1996
4) Statistics Canada University enrollments for 1996
Metropolitan area | Population | University student pop. | Ratio (% of pop.) | |||
Montreal | 3,326,510 | 145,798 | 4.38 | |||
Boston - Worcester - Lawrence | 5,563,475 | 243,035 | 4.37 | |||
Denver - Boulder - Greeley | 2,277,401 | 93,272 | 4.10 | |||
Minneapolis - St. Paul | 2,765,116 | 89,687 | 3.24 | |||
Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Newport News | 1,540,252 | 47,593 | 3.09 | |||
Milwaukee - Racine | 1,642,658 | 49,075 | 2.99 | |||
San Diego | 2,655,463 | 75,825 | 2.86 | |||
Washington - Baltimore | 7,164,519 | 199,429 | 2.78 | |||
Vancouver | 1,831,665 | 50,841 | 2.78 | |||
Toronto | 4,263,757 | 111,274 | 2.61 | |||
St. Louis | 2,548,238 | 65,914 | 2.59 | |||
Pittsburgh | 2,379,411 | 51,273 | 2.15 | |||
Cincinnati - Hamilton | 1,920,931 | 41,243 | 2.15 | |||
New York - Northern New Jersey - Long Island | 19,938,492 | 400,551 | 2.01 | |||
Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater | 2,199,231 | 43,975 | 2.00 | |||
Chicago - Gary - Kenosha | 8,599,774 | 168,402 | 1.96 | |||
Cleveland - Akron | 2,913,430 | 55,313 | 1.90 | |||
Atlanta | 3,541,230 | 66,307 | 1.87 | |||
Philadelphia - Wilmington - Atlantic City | 5,973,463 | 109,736 | 1.84 | |||
Detroit - Ann Arbor - Flint | 5,284,171 | 96,096 | 1.82 | |||
San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose | 6,605,428 | 120,002 | 1.82 | |||
Seattle - Tacoma - Bremerton | 3,320,829 | 56,904 | 1.71 | |||
Houston - Galveston - Brazoria | 4,253,428 | 71,867 | 1.69 | |||
Miami - Fort Lauderdale | 3,514,403 | 58,795 | 1.67 | |||
Portland - Salem | 2,078,357 | 33,950 | 1.63 | |||
Sacramento - Yolo | 1,632,133 | 24,951 | 1.53 | |||
Dallas - Fort Worth | 4,574,561 | 67,276 | 1.47 | |||
Kansas City | 1,690,343 | 20,735 | 1.23 | |||
Los Angeles - Riverside - Orange County | 15,495,155 | 133,557 | 0.86 | |||
Phoenix - Mesa | 2,746,703 | 22,136 | 0.81 | |||