US cities by skyscrapers per capita
Sources: Wikipedia (tallest buildings lists), CTBUH, and the SkyscraperPage database. The 100 m figure for NYC and Chicago are educated estimates instead of an exact count, using the figures obtained from the sources. This map does not take into account any high-rises which are shorter than 100 meters (328 feet). Here’s the data I collected.
I used Datawrapper and Canva to create this visualization.
The top 12 for 100m+ buildings are NYC, Honolulu, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin, Houston, Denver, and Nashville.
The top 12 for 150m+ buildings are NYC, Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, Boston, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Tulsa, and Austin.
It appears that as cities get bigger they can absorb more skyscrapers for a given height relative to their population To my knowledge, this trend holds worldwide as well, up to a population of ten million.