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This can be the MSA or the CSA--it all depends on what is the primary census statistical area for a metropolitan area.
Well, yes, except that CSAs are usually just conglomerations of two MSAs which happen to be next to one another.
Also, many of these figures are hugely overstated. For example, including Pine Bluff into Little Rock's CSA. There is nothing even approaching continuous development between those areas; it is all based on Census commuting data.
Los Angeles is another interesting example. The "true" metro area population is greater than its MSA (which excludes Riverside County/Inland Empire), but less than its CSA, which includes far-flung areas such as Victorville/Hesperia and Lancaster/Palmdale. The "real" metro area population is probably around 2 million people fewer than the CSA number.
but it's in Mankato's MSA. Even calling Mankato "metropolitan" is kind of a stretch, though it certainly seems like a big city compared to the tiny towns around here.
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-West Palm Beach needs to be a CSA. It wasn't before 2000. WPB and all of PB County was it's own metro before that year. But it was COMBINED in 2000 but yet they say it is just one MSA.
Agreed. ....and Raleigh/Durham needs to be one MSA. I live in both Miami and Raleigh and know what I am saying.
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