| Sumario: | The purpose of this article is to offer empirical evidence on the characteristics of demographic dynamics and physical expansion of urban development in Mexico between 1990 and 2020, in order to identify patterns of urban form and to contribute to the debate on the compact urban growth or sprawl. The general question is whether contemporary urbanization in Mexico has been compact or dispersed. To achieve this purpose and to answer the question, statistical and cartographic information from population and housing censuses are used. The general conclusion is that cities with compact or sprawl pattern coexist in Mexico. In the context of a decline in the country’s demographic dynamics, the share of the population residing in discontinuous settlements increased discreetly, an indicator of sprawl, and population density increased marginally, an indicator of compact urbanization. These results confirm the concentrated or sprawl pattern of urbanization in Mexico, where the intra-urban and intra-metropolitan organization of the population has been closely linked to the patterns of the urban housing market and has had an effect on the performance of urban labour and transport markets.
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