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Importantly, these estimates are of the total UCSE, not UCSE spending per person. That is, they are not
adjusted for population. Therefore, part of the reason Dallas has 2.5 times the activity of Denver in 2007
is that the population of the Dallas metropolitan area was 2.5 times that of the Denver metropolitan area.
However, the numbers do not simply reflect population differences. For instance, although Miami and
Washington, DC have approximately the same metropolitan area population (5.5 and 5.3 million,
respectively), Miami has about twice as much UCSE activity as Washington, DC.
1.6.2. Drugs Economy Rankings
Here we present the data from the previous table, slightly differently, showing the rank ordering of cities
based on the estimated underground commercial drug economy size in 2003 and 2007.
City
Year
Drugs
(millions)
Normalized
Dallas 2003 $134 2.1
DC 2003 $111 1.7
San Diego 2003 $105 1.6
Atlanta 2003 $104 1.6
Miami 2003 $93.4 1.5
Seattle 2003 $87.3 1.4
Denver 2003 $54.7 0.9
Dallas 2007 $191 3.0
Atlanta 2007 $117 1.8
DC 2007 $103 1.6
San Diego 2007 $96.3 1.5
Miami 2007 $95.7 1.5
Seattle 2007 $87.4 1.4
Denver 2007 $63.9 1.0
Again, these are not per capita estimates, so population accounts for a large part of the differences.
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