Ok people, here's all 342 MSA's in the country with a population of over 100,000 per state. Remember the 1st list I did was MSA's of over 500,000 per state.
So anyway, there are 366 MSA's listed in total from my source, but the last 22 all fall below the 100,000 population mark.
So, I added the total of all MSA's including those below that mark per state to the list in bold parentheses next to each state that had any. Like with Florida for example, it had 19 MSA's with a population over 100,000 but 1 that wasn't, so added to it's count, Florida's bold number is 20.
Same source:
Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
California: 25
Texas: 25
Florida: 19
(20)
Pennsylvania: 16
Ohio: 15
(16)
Wisconsin: 15
North Carolina: 15
Michigan: 15
Indiana: 14
(16)
Georgia: 13
(15)
Washington: 12
(13)
Alabama: 12
New York: 11
(12)
Virginia: 11
South Carolina: 10
Tennessee: 10
Illinois: 10
(12)
Kentucky: 9
West Virginia: 9
(10)
Missouri: 8
(9)
Louisiana: 8
Colorado: 7
Arkansas: 7
(8)
Massachusetts: 6
New Jersey: 6
(7)
Arizona: 6
Kansas: 6
Iowa: 6
(8)
Maryland: 5
(6)
Utah: 5
Mississippi: 5
Minnesota: 5
(7)
Oregon: 5
(6)
Connecticut: 4
Oklahoma: 4
New Mexico: 4
Idaho: 4
(6)
Nebraska: 3
Maine: 3
South Dakota: 3
New Hampshire: 2
Delaware: 2
Nevada: 2
(3)
North Dakota: 2
(3)
Montana: 2
(3)
(D.C.): 1
Rhode Island: 1
Hawaii: 1
Vermont: 1
Alaska: 1
(2)
Wyoming: 0
(2)
Alright, I don't think anyone should be too unhappy with this list. Every state has at least 1 MSA with a population of over 100,000 besides Wyoming which has 2 below that level.
Two things to remember again are that, some MSA's cover multiple states, and to take the size of each state into account. One interesting example of size difference and density is Connecticut versus Utah.
Connecticut had 4 MSA's over 100,000, while Utah had 5. Connecticut however, is ranked 48th in size, and 29th in population with 3,500,000. Utah is ranked 13th in size, and 34th in population with 2,800,000. Another one to compare with is Massachusetts, 44th in size, 15th in population with 6,600,000, and came out with 6 MSA's over 100,000.
So I guess what I'm saying is, obviously the states are really unequal, and trying to measure em against each other like this still isn't a very good indicator of the real situation. You also have to remember things like, arbitrary limits and boundaries on MSA's.
Last thing, maybe the rest of you weren't interested, but I was lol.
So I counted up the Northeast region's MSA's over 100,000.
"Traditional' Northeast
(ME+NH+VT+MA+CT+RI+NY+NJ+PA)
50
and...
"Boswash" Northeast
49+(DE+MD+DC)
58
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