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Originally Posted by memph
Berkeley: 18,394 ppsm (113,000)
Oakland: 14,014 ppsm (390,000)
San Pablo: 12,327 ppsm (33,000)
Albany: 11,111 ppsm (19,000)
Alameda: 10,600 ppsm (74,000)
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Here are some weighted density stats for some smaller Boston area cities (2000):
Boston: 22,458 ppsm (589,141)
Cambridge: 21,800 ppsm (101,355)
Somerville: 21,655 ppsm (77,478)
Chelsea: 20,994 ppsm (35,080)
Brookline: 17,532 ppsm (57,107)
Lynn: 14,993 ppsm (89,050)
Everett: 14,611 ppsm (27,771)
Malden: 12,0795 ppsm (56,340)
Cambridge has a large section of 30k+ ppsm tracts east of Harvard and north of the Red Line (roughly north of Mass Ave). Somerville, Chelsea lose a bit of density for having populated census tracts with boundaries that include undeveloped (industrial, railway, waterways, etc). Boston has a few tracts with that issue, as well (South Boston has a 30k tract and then an 8 k tract, with the low density having similar having housing stock but include land used for warehouses and ports).
Most of these cities have a large contrast in densities in their tracts, probably more than you'd get in California. Many other Massachusetts towns near Boston have a couple high density tracts but aren't consistently dense.