552 people...darn the town is growing...

Heck, and I can remember back when Mojave was only 3000 people. Now, you wouldn't believe me. The area I used to camp in is now developed!

More people than that live down my road!

There are about a quarter of a mil people living where i do.

I haven't actually looked it up recently...but the town I live outside of has something like 1985 people.

I love this place for that very reason...oh wow it is awesome...1 stop light in the middle of town..

I don't live in the city limits I live between 2 little towns out in the country way back in the woods

Yep. I resemble that remark.

I live two miles from one town ( the one I gave the population of ) and about 5 miles from another.

I don't live " way out " in the woods....but here at the house, you really wouldn't know that I'm not all that far from town...lol

30,000 tree huggin' yuppies

Wow, that's 52 more people then my child as at their school.

I looked St. Louis up (wiki): With an estimated population of 354,361 in 2008, it is the principal municipality of Greater St. Louis, population 2,866,517,

About Salem, Oregon
Salem, the state capital city, is Oregon's second largest city, with a population of approximately 150,000. Salem is also the county seat of Marion County. However, a small portion of Salem within its incorporated limits of 44 square miles lies across the Willamette River (Historical Note) in Polk County. This is referred to as "West Salem".
Salem is located in the center of the Willamette Valley...one of the most fertile and agriculturally productive regions of the United States...47 miles south of Portland and 64 miles north of Eugene, Salem serves as the hub of both state government and the surrounding farming communities.

State government is this city's largest employer, with approximately 13,000 full-time employees, 38 of the largest state agencies and more than 20 smaller ones located in the immediate area. Salem is also a major agricultural food processing center.

Salem is one of Oregon's oldest communities. The Indian name for the locality was Chemeketa, said to mean "meeting or resting place." It may also have been the name of one of the bands of Calapooya Indians. In 1840-41, the Jason Lee Mission was moved from the Willamette River upstream (south) to a site on Mill Creek.

In 1842, the missionaries established the Oregon Institute. When the mission was dissolved in 1844, it was decided to lay out a townsite on the Institute lands. Either David Leslie, one of the trustees who came to Oregon from Salem, Mass., or W. H. Willson, who filed plats in 1850-51 for what is now the main part of the city, selected the name "Salem." Salem is the anglicized form of the hebrew word Shalom, meaning peace. *

The location of the Oregon capital caused a spirited contest that lasted nearly 15 years. By an act of 1851, the provisional government moved the capital to Salem from Oregon City; in 1855 it was moved to Corvallis, only to move back to Salem the same year. Destruction of the Capitol at Salem on December 31, 1855, was considered an incendiary part of this controversy.

The close proximity of government provides Salem citizens with a distinct opportunity to be involved in the decision-making processes of the state. The citizens of Salem also have a long history of commitment to community improvement and volunteerism...a commitment recognized nationally through presentation of two All-America City Awards, one for 1960-61 and more recently for 1982-83.

* Early Salem history from Oregon Geographic Names, by Lewis A. McArthur.

Small towns are great. But they have to have a Wal Mart near by. Mine is 20 miles away.

So is the nearest one to my home...lol

On my bus to the train station, to go just one stop which is only a few minutes walk away, i believe there are 6 stop lights.

Its often quicker to walk.

Boulder CO here

We do about 90,000 when the Uni lets out for summer, in theory ...

About 250,000 when the kids swarm back in fall for their edumacation ...

2 completely different towns ... trust!

No lights here we just have a couple of 4 ways stop signs.

We have 2,600 or so here in Elwood. No stop lights, just signs. Joliet is 3 miles north of here, and they're about 130,000. Chicagoland has about 7 million people, with Chicago proper having about 2.9 million or so.

The population of our town is doubled when you add in all the folks that come here to work at the many warehouses, or the railyard.

We have more corn than people.

Salt Lake City and the surrounding metropolitan area is around 1.2 million now...

I was born & raised in Orlando...so I'm fairly sure there is at least one GIANT mouse who lives there...

my town has about 70,000 people...