I'm in Whitehorse. Whitehorse has a population of about 30,000 people. Whitehorse is the biggest -- and indeed the only -- "city" in the Yukon.
Not a bad-sized city, but not huge. You know how many people live in the Yukon but NOT in the Whitehorse area? Around 10,000. Total.
Guess how big the Yukon is, in terms of land mass. Go ahead, try. Is it as big as Virginia? Texas? Greenland?
It's 1.14 times the size of California. That's 186,282 square miles of land.
California clocks in at about 164,000 square miles. It has almost 40 million inhabitants. How many is that per square mile? About 240 people per square mile.
The population density of the Yukon is 0.14 people per square mile. Leave out Whitehorse, and there's basically nobody here.
Fresno, the fifth-largest city in California, has more than 13 times the amount of inhabitants than the entire Yukon.
The entire Yukon wouldn't come close to cracking the top 100 of biggest cities in California. Number 100 in California is Napa, with almost 76,000 people. Wyoming, our second-least-dense state, is more than 40 times as densely populated as the Yukon. Even Alaska has seven times the population density of the Yukon.
In 2012, the census determined that there were roughly 15,000 private dwellings in the Yukon -- full stop. California has about 14,000,000.
In 2018, there were 3 murders in the Yukon and two attempted murders, according to police statistics. Literally nobody murdered anybody up here for a three-year span from 2011-2013. There were 22 incidents of assault against a police officer, and 4 assaults against private citizens, in 2018. Nobody messes with anybody up here.
It's not a surprise I ran out of gas out here. It's a surprise I ever got gas again.
Not a bad-sized city, but not huge. You know how many people live in the Yukon but NOT in the Whitehorse area? Around 10,000. Total.
Guess how big the Yukon is, in terms of land mass. Go ahead, try. Is it as big as Virginia? Texas? Greenland?
It's 1.14 times the size of California. That's 186,282 square miles of land.
California clocks in at about 164,000 square miles. It has almost 40 million inhabitants. How many is that per square mile? About 240 people per square mile.
The population density of the Yukon is 0.14 people per square mile. Leave out Whitehorse, and there's basically nobody here.
Fresno, the fifth-largest city in California, has more than 13 times the amount of inhabitants than the entire Yukon.
The entire Yukon wouldn't come close to cracking the top 100 of biggest cities in California. Number 100 in California is Napa, with almost 76,000 people. Wyoming, our second-least-dense state, is more than 40 times as densely populated as the Yukon. Even Alaska has seven times the population density of the Yukon.
In 2012, the census determined that there were roughly 15,000 private dwellings in the Yukon -- full stop. California has about 14,000,000.
In 2018, there were 3 murders in the Yukon and two attempted murders, according to police statistics. Literally nobody murdered anybody up here for a three-year span from 2011-2013. There were 22 incidents of assault against a police officer, and 4 assaults against private citizens, in 2018. Nobody messes with anybody up here.
It's not a surprise I ran out of gas out here. It's a surprise I ever got gas again.
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