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Because it is TRUE! There are THAT MANY PEOPLE in the URBANIZED area! I could care less what some old way of stating what a metro population says! I know how many people my Metro has in its urban area. And I'm fine with other metros adding on as well! look at Google Earth and tell me those 3.3 million people are not part of one large metro area!
Because it is TRUE! There are THAT MANY PEOPLE in the URBANIZED area! I could care less what some old way of stating what a metro population says! I know how many people my Metro has in its urban area. And I'm fine with other metros adding on as well! look at Google Earth and tell me those 3.3 million people are not part of one large metro area!
Then WHY did YOU ASK if the OP was FACTORING MSA'S OR CSA'S!!!??? (Is it really necessary to shout in every sentence?)
Since its just up to us(according to you) when making up metro area's, I'll just make all of Florida into one giant metro. Hey everyone the new Miami-Tampa-Orlando-Jacksonville metro is now the 3rd largest in the Country! Just look at Google earth (Sarcasm)
Are you thinking that the CSA figure is the population of the urbanized area of Denver? That's not the case, the urbanized area of Denver is only about 2.4 million.
Are you people looking at the Denver numbers from a Decade ago? Please get the latest data! And as far as the snide florida remark, the 3.3 million of urbanized Denver has no breaks in it.
Urbanized populaton of metros between 2 and 4 million
Detroit, MI 3734090
Phoenix--Mesa, AZ 3629114
San Francisco--Oakland, CA 3281212
Seattle, WA 3059393
San Diego, CA 2956746
Minneapolis--St. Paul, MN--WI 2650890
Tampa--St. Petersburg, FL 2441770
Denver--Aurora, CO 2374203
Baltimore, MD 2203663
St. Louis, MO--IL 2150706
As far as the original question, Denver would be the winner. Sure, it already does sort of have over 3 million. It's silly that Boulder is not part of the MSA of Denver.
So it is already 3 million and will soon be 3 million as well. Just however you want to look at the data.
St Louis, Tampa and Baltimore will take a bit longer to get there.
People mentioning placed like Nashville, Columbus, Indy etc are smoking something.
Agreed. But wouldn't it be equally as silly to not have Lakeland and Bradenton/Sarasota included in Tampa's MSA?
Yes. Although doesn't Orlando complicate things there? I realize Lakeland is probably more economically tied to the Tampa area and it's more built up between Tampa, but Orlando probably pulls in a decent amount of commuters etc as well.
Yes. Although doesn't Orlando complicate things there? I realize Lakeland is probably more economically tied to the Tampa area and it's more built up between Tampa, but Orlando probably pulls in a decent amount of commuters etc as well.
Or....what about the idea that the Orlando and Tampa metros might eventually combine into a giant CSA? Then Florida would have two 6 million+ CSAs.
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