Source: comicvine.com
Here’s the list of the largest suburbs (by population) in North America. A minimum threshold of 150,000 residents was utilized. The population for all communities in the United States and Puerto Rico are 2013 Census Bureau estimates. For other nations, the date of the population count or estimate, when known, is given in parenthesis.
Some cities were difficult to classify. For example, Virginia Beach, VA is now larger than Norfolk. Since it started as a suburb, I left it in the list. When a metro area had multiple original core cities like Dallas-Forth Worth, LA-Long Beach, San Francisco-Oakland, or Tampa-St. Petersburg, each core city was left out of the list of super suburbs.
Core cities with the most super suburbs include:
Los Angeles (18), Mexico City (16), Phoenix (7), Monterrey (6), Toronto (6), Dallas-Fort Worth (5), Las Vegas (5), San Salvador (5), Guadalajara (3), Southeast Florida (3), New York City (3), Port-au-Prince (3), and Vancouver (3).
- Ecatepec, Mexico = 1,655,015 (2010)
- Zapopan, Mexico = 1,142,483 (2010)
- Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico = 1,104,585 (2010)
- Naucalpan, Mexico = 792,211 (2010)
- Mississauga, ON, Canada = 713,443 (2011)
- Guadalupe, Mexico = 673,616 (2010)
- Tlalnepantla, Mexico = 653,410 (2010)
- Chimalhuacán, Mexico = 612,383 (2010)
- Tlaquepaque, Mexico = 575,942 (2010)
- Brampton, ON, Canada = 523,911 (2011)
- Toluca, Mexico = 489,333 (2010)
- Ciudad López Mateos, Mexico = 489,160 (2010)
- Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico = 484,573 (2010)
- Mixco, Guatemala = 473,080
- Surrey, BC, Canada = 468,251 (2011)
- Ciudad Apodaca, Mexico = 467,157 (2010)
- Carrefour, Haiti = 465,019 (2009)
- Mesa, AZ, USA = 457,587
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA = 448,479
- San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico = 443,273 (2010)
- Tonala, Mexico = 408,759 (2010)
- Villa Nueva, Guatemala = 406 830
- Laval, QC, Canada = 401,553 (2011)
- Arlington, TX, USA = 379,577
- Delmas, Haiti = 359,451 (2009)
- Xico, Mexico = 356,352 (2010)
- General Escobedo, Mexico = 352,444 (2010)
- Aurora, CO, USA = 345,803
- Anaheim, CA, USA = 345,012
- Pétionville, Haiti = 342,694 (2009)
- Santa Ana, CA, USA = 334,227
- Ixtapaluca, Mexico = 322,271 (2010)
- Riverside, CA, USA = 316,619
- San Miguelito, Panama = 315,019 (2010)
- Markham, ON, Canada = 301,709 (2011)
- Vaughn, ON, Canada = 288,301 (2011)
- Ciudad Nicolás Romero, Mexico = 281,799 (2010)
- Newark, NJ, USA = 278,427
- Coacalco de Berriozábal, Mexico = 277,959 (2010)
- Plano, TX, USA = 274,409
- Henderson, NV, USA = 270,811
- Santa Catarina, Mexico = 268,347 (2010)
- Gatineau, QC, Canada = 265,349 (2011)
- Soyapango, El Salvador = 262,975
- Gómez Palacio, Mexico = 257,352 (2010)
- Jersey City, NJ, USA = 257,342
- Chula Vista, CA, USA = 256,780
- Soledad de Graciano Sánchez, Mexico = 255,015 (2010)
- Chandler, AZ, USA = 249,146
- Ojo de Agua, Mexico = 242,272
- Cité Soleil, Haiti = 241,055 (2009)
- Irvine, CA, USA = 236,716
- Glendale, AZ, USA = 234,632
- Garland, TX, USA = 234,566
- Hialeah, FL, USA = 233,394
- Longueuil, QC, Canada = 231,409 (2011)
- Chesapeake, VA, USA = 230,571
- Gilbert, AZ, USA = 229,972
- Irving, TX, USA = 228,653
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA = 226,918
- North Las Vegas, NV, USA = 226,877
- Fremont, CA, USA = 224,922
- Burnaby, BC, Canada = 223,218
- Paradise, NV, USA = 223,167
- Apopa, El Salvador = 217,733
- Mejicanos, El Salvador = 211,878
- San Bernardino, CA, USA = 213,708
- Arlington, VA, USA = 207,627
- Buenavista, Mexico = 206,081
- Oxnard, CA, USA = 203,007
- Fontana, CA, USA = 203,003
- Moreno Valley, CA, USA = 201,175
- Aurora, IL, USA = 199,963
- Yonkers, NY, USA = 199,766
- Bayamon, Puerto Rico = 198,958
- Huntington Beach, CA, USA = 197,575
- Glendale, CA, USA = 196,021
- Richmond, BC, Canada = 190,473 (2011)
- San Pablo de las Salinas, Mexico = 189,453
- Sunrise Manor, NV, USA = 189,372
- Richmond Hill, ON, Canada = 185,541 (2011)
- Grand Prairie, TX, USA = 183,372
- Oakville, ON, Canada = 182,520 (2011)
- Overland Park, KS, USA = 181,260
- Santa Clarita, CA, USA = 179,590
- Spring Valley, NV, USA = 178,395
- Burlington, ON, Canada = 175,779 (2011)
- Garden Grove, CA, USA = 175,140
- Delgado, El Salvador = 174,825
- Chicoloapan de Juárez, Mexico = 172,919
- Oceanside, CA, USA = 172,794
- Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA = 171,386
- Port St. Lucie, FL, USA= 171,016
- Carolina, Puerto Rico = 169,597
- Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias, Mexico = 168, 720
- Tempe, AZ, USA = 168,228
- Ontario, CA, USA = 167,500
- Vancouver, WA, USA = 167,405
- Cape Coral, FL, USA = 165,831
- Peoria, AZ, USA = 162,592
- Pembroke Pines, FL, USA = 162,329
- Elk Grove, CA, USA = 161,007
- Lancaster, CA, USA = 159,523
- Corona, CA, USA = 159,503
- Ilopango, El Salvador = 159,232
- Palmdale, CA, USA = 157,161
- Pasadena, TX, USA = 152,735
- Ciudad Benito Juárez, Mexico = 151,893
- Hayward, CA, USA = 151,574
- Pomona, CA, USA = 151,348
- Cary, NC, USA = 151,088
Sources: en.wikipedia.org and Census Bureau
problogic
Panethos 
For some of these cities, I am familiar enough with them to wonder what makes them a suburb, and what are they suburbs of? They’re not all like the Moon, which was originally torn or smashed out of Earth. I looked up Aurora, Illinois, which I assume is listed as a suburb of Chicago. There are a number of incorporated places in Illinois which were all begun around the same time: as soon as the Native Americans were expelled. Chicago was incorporated in 1837. Aurora got its Post Office in 1837, which gave it an identity as a recognized place, though the final stage wasn’t done until 1857. Aurora didn’t begin as a suburb of Chicago; it was swallowed up in the Chicago SMSA.
I also am wondering what city Lancaster and Palmdale CA are suburbs of. I’ve been in and around both and never considered them suburbs.
LikeLike
Lancaster and Palmdale are in northern LA County,so they are burbs of LA. While Aurora became engulfed in Chicago, it has grown rapidly as a suburb. Many other suburbs were once small farm towns or trade centers that were swallowed by urban mass.
LikeLike
Tell me something I don’t already know.
LikeLike
Ok…?
LikeLike
I have the same question as Jean SmilingCoyote, how are some of these communities suburbs? If you’ve defined super suburbs as cities outside core cities that have had the vast majority of growth in the post-WWII years (the key years for suburban growth, at least in the US), Newark, NJ and Jersey City, NJ outside New York City don’t fit that definition, since they’ve actually shrunk in the postwar era from their highest population. Indeed, Newark and Jersey City are more characteristic of urban cities in urban form and social problems, and each were larger than some of the “core cities” that you’ve excluded, including Oakland, Long Beach, and St. Petersburg.
LikeLike
I debated throughout the preparation of the post what to do about Newark ad Jersey City. I do not recall the New York metro area ever being referred to as the New York-Newark or New York-Jersey City Metro Area. In addition, both have more recently made a turn around and are growing again. It was a judgement call.
LikeLike
If you put all suburbs of city togeher rather than rely on each jurisdiction then almost every city had more people in the suburbs, Simply all of the Bay region is a suburb of SF. Perhaps we should forget the outmoded definition and talk about multicentred urban regions which is what the Bay area is. The Ruhr is a similar case,
LikeLike