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Ranking SEC cities by population size
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:39 am
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:39 am
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1. Nashville 658,602
2. Lexington 310,797
3. Baton Rouge 228,895
4. Knoxville 184,281
5. Columbia (S.C.) 132,067
6. Gainesville 128,460
7. Athens 119,648
8. Columbia (Mo.) 116,906
9. College Station 103,483
10. Tuscaloosa 96,122
11. Fayetteville 80,621
12. Auburn 60,258
13. Starkville 24,886
14. Oxford 21,757
-The largest population centers in the SEC — Nashville and Lexington — also represent the programs with the lowest average attendance at football games. Go figure.
-The average home attendance for Ole Miss last season at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium was 61,547 — or nearly three times the population of Oxford.
-Four SEC teams play in stadiums that regularly eclipse the population of the university’s town — Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State and Ole Miss.
-After the completion of a massive renovation project that didn’t quite reach a half-billion dollars in costs, Kyle Field now holds about 102,512 fans. That represents a slight reduction from last year and dips the stadium capacity back below the estimated population of College Station.
-Nashville, the largest SEC city, is 30.3 times larger than Oxford, the SEC’s smallest city.
-The media population in the SEC lands between Athens and Columbia (Mo.). Incidentally, the Bulldogs clobbered the Tigers, 34-0, at Faurot Field in 2014, but Mizzou claimed a second consecutive SEC East title.
-Baton Rouge — home to the infamous Death Valley — represents the largest SEC city in which the football team made a bowl game last season. No wonder the crowds are so rowdy. (That, and a more relaxed liquor culture.)
-Just for fun, Birmingham, the site of the SEC headquarters, contained an estimated population of 212,247 as of 2014. That would rank fourth in the conference if it included a university, just behind Baton Rouge.
-Atlanta, the site of the SEC championship game, boasts of an estimated population of 456,002. I bet some of you didn’t figure it was so much smaller than Nashville.
1. Nashville 658,602
2. Lexington 310,797
3. Baton Rouge 228,895
4. Knoxville 184,281
5. Columbia (S.C.) 132,067
6. Gainesville 128,460
7. Athens 119,648
8. Columbia (Mo.) 116,906
9. College Station 103,483
10. Tuscaloosa 96,122
11. Fayetteville 80,621
12. Auburn 60,258
13. Starkville 24,886
14. Oxford 21,757
-The largest population centers in the SEC — Nashville and Lexington — also represent the programs with the lowest average attendance at football games. Go figure.
-The average home attendance for Ole Miss last season at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium was 61,547 — or nearly three times the population of Oxford.
-Four SEC teams play in stadiums that regularly eclipse the population of the university’s town — Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State and Ole Miss.
-After the completion of a massive renovation project that didn’t quite reach a half-billion dollars in costs, Kyle Field now holds about 102,512 fans. That represents a slight reduction from last year and dips the stadium capacity back below the estimated population of College Station.
-Nashville, the largest SEC city, is 30.3 times larger than Oxford, the SEC’s smallest city.
-The media population in the SEC lands between Athens and Columbia (Mo.). Incidentally, the Bulldogs clobbered the Tigers, 34-0, at Faurot Field in 2014, but Mizzou claimed a second consecutive SEC East title.
-Baton Rouge — home to the infamous Death Valley — represents the largest SEC city in which the football team made a bowl game last season. No wonder the crowds are so rowdy. (That, and a more relaxed liquor culture.)
-Just for fun, Birmingham, the site of the SEC headquarters, contained an estimated population of 212,247 as of 2014. That would rank fourth in the conference if it included a university, just behind Baton Rouge.
-Atlanta, the site of the SEC championship game, boasts of an estimated population of 456,002. I bet some of you didn’t figure it was so much smaller than Nashville.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:39 am to texag7
A lot of these are misleading.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:40 am to texag7
Need to include the entire MSA, not just the city limits.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:41 am to texag7
Very cool. I would not have though Knox to be that high up the list. And ATL being larger than Nashville Is crazy to me, they must not be factoring in some portion of the suburbs in because ATL traffic is a hellscape of people.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:43 am to BigOrangeVols
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they must not be factoring in some portion of the suburbs
Yeah, it'd be over 5 million if they did that.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:44 am to GetCocky11
Yep, MSA of Fayetteville went over 500,000 recently. That's more than 6x what's listed. I imagine it's similar for most of the other cities too.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:45 am to dbeck
Yeah, the Columbia MSA is over 800,000 I believe.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:46 am to texag7
Are these the populations not including the students? Have to be.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:51 am to GetCocky11
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Need to include the entire MSA, not just the city limits.
Agreed. BR proper may only be about 229,000, but the MSA is over 800,000. Nashville MSA is about 1.6 million.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:52 am to GetCocky11
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Yeah, the Columbia MSA is over 800,000 I believe.
right, and the BR metro area has 820,000. When I was in Columbia for a weekend, I made the correlation between Columbia/Charleston and BR/NOLA.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:54 am to texag7
Atlanta Metro is >> than Nashville Metro.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:57 am to texag7
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14. Oxford 21,757
And the infrastructure of Oxford is struggling to keep up with this amount of people as it is. This doesn't include the 18K or so students either.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:59 am to DingDongEddieStrong
I went by the new high school when I was in Oxford last month. Those new houses out there looking really nice
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:59 am to UMRealist
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Are these the populations not including the students? Have to be.
Yup. Oxford has 21k year- round residents inside the 10 square miles that is the city limits. You could add another ~10k for students, and probably another 5k or so for all the areas just outside city limits.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:59 am to texag7
Unless we're concerning ourselves with school districts or local income taxes, this list is shite.
Only need to list the SMSA.
Only need to list the SMSA.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 12:01 pm to texag7
MSAs for those interested:
Atlanta 5,614,323
Nashville 1,792,649
Knoxville 857,585
Baton Rouge 825,478
Columbia, SC 800,495
Fayetteville 501,653
Lexington 494,189
Gainesville 273,377
College Station 242,905
Tuscaloosa 237,761
Athens 199,016
Columbia, MO 172,717
Auburn 154,255
Oxford 52,930
Starkville 49,414
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Atlanta 5,614,323
Nashville 1,792,649
Knoxville 857,585
Baton Rouge 825,478
Columbia, SC 800,495
Fayetteville 501,653
Lexington 494,189
Gainesville 273,377
College Station 242,905
Tuscaloosa 237,761
Athens 199,016
Columbia, MO 172,717
Auburn 154,255
Oxford 52,930
Starkville 49,414
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This post was edited on 8/19/15 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 8/19/15 at 12:02 pm to texag7
The bigger the population, the less it's a college town, IMO
Posted on 8/19/15 at 12:02 pm to texag7
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new high school when I was in Oxford last month. Those new houses out there looking really nice
They're pretty average by Oxford standards, but i wouldn't mind living there.
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