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{{Short description|Human settlement within a metropolitan area}} {{Use American English|date=November 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{redirect-several|Suburbs|Suburbia|Suburban}} A '''suburb''' (more broadly '''suburban area''') is an area within a [[metropolitan area]]. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www2.census.gov/training-workshops/2021/2021-05-19-led-presentation.pdf|title= The Spatial Structure of US Metropolitan Employment: New Insights from LODES Data|publisher=US Cencus Bureau|access-date=May 23, 2025}}</ref><ref>Garreau, J., ''Edge City: Life on the New Frontier'', Knopf Doubleday, 1992, p149</ref> They can either be denser or less densely populated than the city and can have a higher or lower rate of detached single family homes than the city as well. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://statisticalatlas.com/metro-area/Georgia/Atlanta/Population#figure/place/population-density|title=People per square mile (excluding waters).Scope: population of selected places in the Atlanta Area|publisher=Statistical Atlas|access-date=May 23, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2023.DP04?g=160XX00US1836003,1871828&d=ACS+5-Year+Estimates+Data+Profiles|title= DP04Selected Housing Characteristics|publisher= US census Bureau|access-date=May 23, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=DP04:+Selected+Housing+Characteristics&g=160XX00US0455000,0465000|title= DP04Selected Housing Characteristics|publisher= US Census Bureau|access-date=May 23, 2025}}</ref> Suburbs can have their own political or legal jurisdictions, especially in the United States, but this is not always the case, especially in the United Kingdom, where most suburbs are located within the administrative boundaries of cities.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=9780415252256|pages=640}}</ref> In most [[English-speaking world|English-speaking countries]], suburban areas are defined in contrast to [[core city|central city]] or [[inner city]] areas, but in [[Australian English]] and [[South African English]], ''suburb'' has become largely synonymous with what is called a "[[neighborhood]]" in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jain |first=Shri V. K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRYsEAAAQBAJ&dq=but+in+Australian+English+and+South+African+English%2C+suburb+has+become+largely+synonymous+with+what+is+called+a+%22neighborhood%22+in+other+countries&pg=PA348 |title=Applied Ecology and Sustainable Environment |date=2021-04-30 |publisher=BFC Publications |isbn=978-93-90880-19-5 |language=en}}</ref> Due in part to historical trends such as [[white flight]], some suburbs in the United States have a higher population and higher incomes than their nearby inner cities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america|title=A forgotten history of how the US Government Segregated America|publisher=NPR|access-date=30 Nov 2023}}</ref> [[File:Pf006593-suburbs with cows.jpg|thumb|A suburban housing development in [[Richfield, Minnesota]], in 1954]] In some countries, including India, China, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and parts of the United States, new suburbs are routinely [[municipal annexation|annexed]] by adjacent cities due to [[urban sprawl]]. In others, such as Morocco, France, and much of the United States, many suburbs remain separate municipalities or are [[local government|governed locally]] as part of a larger metropolitan area such as a county, district or [[borough]]. In the United States, regions beyond the suburbs are known as "exurban areas" or [[exurb]]s; exurbs have less population density than suburbs, but still more than rural areas. Suburbs and exurbs are sometimes linked to the nearby city economically, particularly by commuters. Suburbs first emerged on a large scale in the 19th and 20th centuries, as a result of improved rail and road transport, which led to an increase in commuting.<ref name="Hollow 2011">{{cite journal |url=https://www.academia.edu/1593132 |title=Suburban Ideals on England's Interwar Council Estates |first=Matthew |last=Hollow |year=2011 |access-date=29 December 2012 |journal=Journal of the Garden History Society |language=en}}</ref> Most suburbs are less dense than inner city neighborhoods within the same metropolitan area, and residents routinely commute to other suburbs and city centers or [[business districts]] via [[private transport|private vehicle]]s or [[public transit]]; including [[industrial suburb]]s, [[planned communities]], and [[satellite cities]]. Suburbs tend to proliferate around cities that have an abundance of adjacent flat land.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2t2P4t8fkJMC ''The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region'']{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} by Jonathan Barnett, via Google Books.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-26-mn-6705-story.html|access-date=May 27, 2025|title=Suburb-to-Suburb Commuting Now National Pattern|publisher=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
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