Population Numbers for Thirty Cities that Welcome Dogs

Dogs to Humans Ratios in Thirty Cities

An article entitled "Atlas A-list", by Susan Chaney, in the September 2010 issue of Dog Fancy magazine reveals that the populations of many of the dog-loving cities listed eleven through forty aren't far ahead of their numbers for dog companions.

A former Dog Fancy editor, Chaney and her team roamed the United States to learn more about dog-city friendly locations, and dug out canine friendly facts from the magazine's database and its readers to produce the September issue article.

Related numbers in the article say two cities in the 11 to 40 ranking have about one canine in their population for every two human beings, three cities have a one to three ratio, four cities are one to five, and ten of the cities listed in the 11 to 40 rankings have one canine for every four human beings.

Cities in the One to Two and One to Three Ratios

The two cities in the 11 through 40 ranking with a dogs-to-human beings ratio of about one half are Fargo, North Dakota, 53,580 dogs to 94,000 human beings, and Phoenix, Arizona, 768,000 to 1,512,986.

Briarcliff Manor, New York has a human population of 9,895 with 3,200 dogs in residence, or roughly a one to three ratio, as does Coeur d'Alene, Idaho with 17,000 dogs to 45,790 humans, and Waukesha, Wisconsin, 25,000 canines to 67,800 human citizens.

Long Beach, California reports approximately a one to five ratio in dogs to humans, 496,000 to 103,000, and Park City, Utah rates a bit under the one fifth mark with 1,700 dogs and 8,000 human citizens. Also in the one fifth range is Seattle, Washington with 125,000 canines and 600,000 persons in residence. A ballpark figure for Charleston, South Carolina puts that city near the one-fifth ratio with its 25,600 dogs and 111,978 human beings.

Cities in the Dog-Humans One to Four Population Ratio

Colorado has three cities listed in the eleven to forty range of most dog appreciative, and two of those locations rank in the noted one-quarter ratio.

The cities in "Atlas A-list" that have nearly one quarter as many dogs among their populations as they do human beings include in alphabetical order by state:

Anchorage, Alaska -- 65,878 dogs; 290,588 humans
Huntington Beach, California -- 48,964 to 196,620
Boulder, Colorado -- 25,145 to 99,466
Colorado Springs, Colorado -- 87.055 to 372,437
Coral Springs, Florida -- 40,000 to 125,000
Iowa City, Iowa -- 16,000 to 67,831
Hampstead, Maryland -- 2,200 to 6,700
Minneapolis, Minnesota -- 107,727 to 390,131
Portland, Oregon -- 147,162 to 582,130
Raleigh, North Carolina -- 99,237 to 392,552

Dogs to Humans Ratio Champion City

Ann Arbor, Michigan has the most wide spread ratio of dogs per humans with a count of 5,000 dogs to 114,000 two-legged citizens.

The champion city of dogs-to-human beings ratio in the listing of eleven to forty cities ranked for love of dogs is Helena, Montana. Its human population is 70,000 and those dog lovers have 40,000 canine companions.