Data from a 1972 three-state survey are used to compare city, suburban, town, and rural dwellers in terms of five urbanism characteristics: (1) anonymity, (2) tolerance, (3) community social bonds, (4) alienation, and (5) deviant behavior. Suburbanites displayed less urbanism than city dwellers, but they did not differ much from other noncity people in this regard. In fact, residents of the various types of settlement do not fall on a neat continuum of urbanism from country to town to suburb to city. The dominant pattern is simply a city-noncity differentiation, although there are a few anomalies. These results suggest that urban theories have limited usefulness for understanding urbanism among suburbanites, but they also reveal so little evidence of suburban distinctiveness that it may not require a unique explanation beyond that needed to account for simple urbannonurban differences.