Random question but where are you getting that 1,616 number for number of mayors in the USA? That is way too specific to be an approximation but also feels way too low for the number of cities and towns in the US with municipal governments structured in such a way that they have a mayor/city executive
Yep. 1,616, aside from looking like the number of the main Marvel Comics universe with a 1 on it, is the number of big city mayors. I had forgotten about the qualifier for the stat deep in my brain.
I had it in my brain from a research deep dive I had gone into at one point (in all honesty because of the Marvel Comics number) and forgot that it was just for big cities and towns.
Random question but where are you getting that 1,616 number for number of mayors in the USA? That is way too specific to be an approximation but also feels way too low for the number of cities and towns in the US with municipal governments structured in such a way that they have a mayor/city executive
The 1616 is for towns over 30,000
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/facts/levels-office/local/women-mayors-us-cities-2024
Oh dang, you’re right. I remembered the 1616 number because it’s the Marvel number with a 1 in front, and I forgot it was just for bigger cities.
Wiki has it at 135k for mayors+town council members. Which seems far more accurate.
Yep. 1,616, aside from looking like the number of the main Marvel Comics universe with a 1 on it, is the number of big city mayors. I had forgotten about the qualifier for the stat deep in my brain.
I had it in my brain from a research deep dive I had gone into at one point (in all honesty because of the Marvel Comics number) and forgot that it was just for big cities and towns.