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Old 06-05-2013, 03:09 PM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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This thread is to look at the demographics of the core counties of the many metro areas out there. This is mainly targeted at those metro areas where the majority of the land in question is farmland, ranchland, or just small towns that are disconected from the urban/suburban part of the metro. Ill be intersted to see the responses. I wont be doing all the metro areas simply because I think others from those metro areas will be more qualified to determine what the core counties area. Ill start with mine:

Dallas/Fort Worth core counties:

Dallas
Tarrant
Collin
Denton

Land area of DFW's core counties: 3,469 square miles

Population of DFW's core counties: 5,875,942

Demographics of DFW's core counties:

White: 45.9%
Hispanic: 29.6%
Black: 16.7%
Asian: 6.4%

Lets hear yours. I think Atlanta, Houston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, the Bay Area, DC, and Chicago would definately be interesting to see.
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Old 06-05-2013, 04:15 PM
 
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I am not sure if Galveston is still a core county, and the census hasn't made Montgomery county a core county yet so:

Harris county: 4,253,700 people
Non Hispanic White 33%
Black 18%
Asians 6.2%
Hispanic 40%

Fort Bend 627, 293
White 26%
Black 21%
Asian 17%
Hispanic Hispanic 23%
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Old 06-05-2013, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
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I am not sure if Galveston is still a core county, and the census hasn't made Montgomery county a core county yet so:
They abolished the core county system last year FWIW.
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Old 06-05-2013, 04:20 PM
 
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They abolished the core county system last year FWIW.
Oh thanks. Then I guess Harris and Fort Bend should suffice in terms of where the op is heading
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Old 06-05-2013, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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Oh thanks. Then I guess Harris and Fort Bend should suffice in terms of where the op is heading
I would think (and maybe incorrectly) that Montgomery County would qualify because of the amount of growth on the Harris/Montgomery line and the amount of commuters from Conroe to Houston. I would think the core of the Houston area is Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery.

If you isolated the populations of those three counties, what would the demographics be? That's sort of the idea of the thread.
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Old 06-05-2013, 05:34 PM
 
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I would think (and maybe incorrectly) that Montgomery County would qualify because of the amount of growth on the Harris/Montgomery line and the amount of commuters from Conroe to Houston. I would think the core of the Houston area is Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery.

If you isolated the populations of those three counties, what would the demographics be? That's sort of the idea of the thread.
The combined results didn't change much because Harris is so dominant in the metro.

White 33% or about 1.7 million
Black 20% or about 1.1 million
Native American 1.2% or about 50k
Asian 8% or about 425K
Hispanic 37% or about 1.85 million

The rest of the metro is less diverse.
Anyway, the numbers don't add up to 100% so the numbers might be slightly off.
Just divided the counties by their respective racial percentage then added the numbers of the races from different counties, then added the totals and found the percentage of each race from that total
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Old 06-06-2013, 08:27 AM
 
Location: Franklin, TN
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Nashville:
Total population - 1,400,744
Total land area - 2,806.3 sq mi
70.8 White
17.3 Black
7.3 Hispanic
2.6 Asian
1.9 Other


Davidson
648,295
504.0 sq mi
57.3 White
27.5 Black
9.9 Hispanic
2.9 Asian
2.4 Other

Rutherford
274,454
619.4 sq mi
75.2 White
13.1 Black
6.9 Hispanic
3.1 Asian
1.7 Other

Williamson
192,911
582.6 sq mi
86.1 White
4.6 Hispanic
4.5 Black
2.9 Asian
1.8 Other

Sumner
166,123
529.5 sq mi
86.7 White
7.0 Black
4.0 Hispanic
1.3 Asian
1.0 Other

Wilson
118,961
570.8 sq mi
87.2 White
6.8 Black
3.4 Hispanic
1.2 Asian
1.4 Other
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Old 06-06-2013, 08:38 AM
 
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Cook County - over half the Chicago metro area 5.2 million:

White: 45%
Black: 25%
Hispanic: 24%
Asian: 6%

The next largest county with around 1.0 million is Dupage:

White: 72%
Hispanic: 13%
Asian: 10%
Black: 5%
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Old 06-06-2013, 10:22 AM
 
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Atlanta's five core counties:

Fulton 920,000
41% White
44% Black
8% Hispanic
6% Asian

Gwinnett 800,000
44% White
23% Black
20% Hispanic
11% Asian

Dekalb 690,000
29% White
54% Black
10% Hispanic
5% Asian

Cobb 690,000
56% White
24% Black
12% Hispanic
4% Asian

Clayton 260,000
14% White
65% Black
14% Hispanic
5% Asian

Then the cores of the CSA counties:

Hall (Gainesville) 180,000
64% White
7% Black
26% Hispanic
2% Asian

Clarke (Athens) 120,000
57% White
26% Black
10% Hispanic
4% Asian


All as of 2010.
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Old 06-06-2013, 11:25 AM
 
Location: Limbo
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The 7 county Twin Cities area: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties.

~2,975 total sq mi
~2,919,177 people (2012 estimates)

Anoka:
336,414 people
85.1% White
4.5% Black
4% Asian
3.8% Hispanic

Carver:
93,707 people
90.3% White
1.4% Black
2.8% Asian
4% Hispanic

Dakota:
405,088 people
82.1% White
4.9% Black
4.6% Asian
6.1% Hispanic

Hennepin:
1,184,576 people
71.6% White
12% Black
6.5% Asian
6.9% Hispanic

Ramsey:
520,152 people
66.8% White
11.2% Black
12% Asian
7.2% Hispanic

Scott:
135,152 people
84.3% White
2.8% Black
5.9% Asian
4.6% Hispanic

Washington:
244,088 people
85.5% White
3.8% Black
5.1% Asian
3.5% Hispanic
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