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Looking at Cleveland alone is misleading because Northeast Ohio has multiple cities, none of which completely dominates, and I'd argue that Cleveland + Akron + Canton + Youngstown is more powerful than Detroit or Minneapolis. Northeast Ohio is really unique in the midwest, where it's mostly single large cities surrounded by farmland or small towns. Northeast Ohio has 4 (5 if you include Lorain-Elyria) dominant core cities, surrounded by suburbs, with relatively small swaths of forests and farmland in between.
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Northeast Ohio is really more of a region than a single dominant city, and I'd argue that Cleveland + Akron + Canton + Youngstown is more powerful than Detroit or Minneapolis. Northeast Ohio is really unique in the midwest, where it's mostly single large cities surrounded by farmland or small towns. Northeast Ohio has 4 (5 if you include Lorain-Elyria) dominant core cities, surrounded by suburbs, with relatively small swaths of forests and farmland in between.
I love Cleveland, but there is no way its more powerful then Detroit as a metro. MSP is debatable however
Looking at Cleveland alone is misleading because Northeast Ohio has multiple cities, none of which completely dominates, and I'd argue that Cleveland + Akron + Canton + Youngstown is more powerful than Detroit or Minneapolis. Northeast Ohio is really unique in the midwest, where it's mostly single large cities surrounded by farmland or small towns. Northeast Ohio has 4 (5 if you include Lorain-Elyria) dominant core cities, surrounded by suburbs, with relatively small swaths of forests and farmland in between.
Ah...no it's not. By the way, you might have forgotten, but Detroit + Ann Arbor + Flint + Port Huron + Toledo exists just for argument sake.
Looking at Cleveland alone is misleading because Northeast Ohio has multiple cities, none of which completely dominates, and I'd argue that Cleveland + Akron + Canton + Youngstown is more powerful than Detroit or Minneapolis. Northeast Ohio is really unique in the midwest, where it's mostly single large cities surrounded by farmland or small towns. Northeast Ohio has 4 (5 if you include Lorain-Elyria) dominant core cities, surrounded by suburbs, with relatively small swaths of forests and farmland in between.
Detrioit MSA, MSP MSA, northeast Ohio
Population:
Detroit 4,296,611
MSP 3,495,176
NE Ohio 4,335,920
Core cities population
Detroit 680,250 139 sq mi
MSP 704,000 107 sq mi (they're contingious)
Cleveland 396,815 77.70 sq mi
GDP (Millions of dollars)
Detroit 224 billion
MSP 227 billion
NE Ohio 170 billion
Per Capita Income
Detroit 22,319
MSP 35,388
Cleveland-Akron 24,275
Youngstown 18,551
Median Household Income
Detroit 49,160
MSP 54,304
Cleveland-Akron 42,215
Youngstown 36,255
Universities:
Detroit:
U of Michigan Ann Arbor #29 US News National Universities
MSP:
U of Minnesota #70 US News National Universities
Macalester College #24 National Liberal Arts
Carleton (45 mins from Minny) #8 Nat Liberal Arts
NE Ohio:
Case Western Reserve University #38 National Universities
Kenyon College #30 National Liberal Arts Universities
Oberlin College #23 National Liberal Arts Universities
Cleveland got my vote for reasons beyond the MSA (s) and CSAs. Which medical center drew patients enough internationally, given some different ways of doing things, to warrant building not only branches in FL and Scottsdale, but actually build abroad? Cleveland Clinic.
Mayo defined many things in the US for decades, but Cleveland Clinic went international, given all the countries their patients lived. That's thinking out of the box, imo.
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