Which states have metro areas with more than one of their 5 largest cities? (population, top 10)

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by lammius

In NJ, all of the top 10 are in the NYC CSA. All of the top 8 are in the NYC MSA, while #9 and #10 are in the Trenton MSA.

1. Newark
2. Jersey City
3. Paterson
4. Elizabeth
5. Edison
6. Woodbridge
7. Lakewood
8. Toms River
9. Hamilton
10. Trenton

Philly phoresaken?

[NigerianNightmare]

I think California has it as well albeit in the CSA
1. L.A
2. San Diego
3. San Jose
4. San Francisco
5. Fresno

If you expand to 10 you see this.
1. L.A
2. San Diego
3. San Jose
4. San Francisco
5. Fresno
6. Sacramento
7. Long Beach
8. Oakland
9. Bakersfield
10. Anaheim

Kansas has a unique relationship with Missouri's Kansas City
1. Wichita
2. Overland Park
3. Kansas City
4. Olathe
5. Topeka
not to mention in the future, Lawrence (#6 city, edge of current metro boundaries and within 50 miles of Kansas City) could be a suburb of Kansas City and Johnson County (where #2, #4, #7, #9 are located) suburbs might get another town in the top 5 as well.

[ckhthankgod]

Actually, NYC also has Yonkers, which is the 4th biggest city in NY State in between Rochester and Syracuse.

[mstnghu2]

The San Francisco Bay Area has San Jose (3rd largest population in CA) and San Francisco (4th largest population in CA). Oakland is the other big city that anchors the Bay Area but it doesn't fall within the 5 largest cities in the state by population.

[The_General]

Originally Posted by TheTimidBlueBars

In general, older and geographically bigger states have less of their population and economic activity concentrated in one metro area. Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, California, and so on.


Illinois is an exception since Chicagoland is so big and the state borders happen to be drawn in a way that excludes other big metros besides the east suburbs of St. Louis. Mostly, the other side of that scale is made up of smaller and later-added states like Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado, where either the land is too desertous and inhospitable for multiple large population centers to develop, or there just isn't enough room to do so.

Later added?

[NigerianNightmare]

Originally Posted by The_General

Later added?

smaller, the ones you bolded.
later-added, the ones after that.

[Mutiny77]

For Maryland:

1. Baltimore
2. Frederick
3. Rockville
4. Gaithersburg
5. Bowie

Minus Baltimore, all are in the DC MSA and of course, all are in the DC-Baltimore CSA.

[mjlo]

Surprised no one has mentioned Arizona. The Phoenix area has 4 of the top 5 and 9 of the top 10 cities in AZ.

[KayneMo]

Oklahoma

1. OKC - 644,000
2. Tulsa - 402,000
3. Norman (OKC metro) - 123,000
4. Broken Arrow (Tulsa metro) - 108,000
5. Lawton - 94,000

[bbtm100912]

Rhode Island. Except for Newport, Narragansett and maybe Westerly, all of the major cities surround Providence. (Pawtucket, Warwick, Cranston, Johnston, East Providence, North Providence)