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I am a little biased since I moved to Denver, but the size of Denver's metro is kind of misleading. Boulder and its neighbors are undoubtedly closely linked to Denver, but for some reason the powers that be insist on keeping Boulder its own MSA and it holds Denver's population down by almost a million people and hurts its diversity and education levels as well. In some MSA surveys I see Denver as 16th and I believe that is when they count Boulder as well. At 16th its just behind Seattle, a city I see as very comparable in most of these categories.
If just considering the cities picked here Denver will win many categories because the other cities are somewhat overshadowed by bigger cities 3-4 hours away.
Here is the latest stats it shows Charlotte as a CSA but yes it jumped ahead by a little, a county must have been added for it to jump ahead. It wasn't by raw number growth. Orlando is still behind San Antonio. Built Urbanized area San Antonio is bigger than both.
18. Denver 668 sq miles 2.37 million
25. Portland 524 1.84 million
26. San Antonio 597 1.76 million
27. Pittsburgh 905 1.73 miilion
32. Orlando 598 1.50 million
38. Charlotte 741 1.24 million
20. Baltimore (2,753,149)
21. Denver (2,645,209)
22. Pittsburgh (2,360,733)
23. Charlotte (2,296,569)
24. Portland (2,289,800)
25. San Antonio (2,234,003)
How unfortunate...lol.
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