Which Core Cities Have the Greatest Portion of its Metropolitan Area's Population? (land, rank)

[bm925]

I was wondering if anybody had any insight into which metropolitan areas' primary core cities have the largest proportion of its metropolitan area population?

For instance, Albany, NY has a population of a little under 98,000 and, it is the largest city in its metropolitan area which has about 1,200,000 people so, the city of Albany accounts for less than 10% of it's metropolitan area whereas; Jacksonville, FL has a population of about 820,000 and, its metropolitan area has about 1,400,000 so, it's share of the metropolitan area is about 60%.

Those are just two metropolitan areas picked at random but, I'd be curious to know which core cities have a greater weight/pull/gravitational force in their metropolitan areas.

[kidphilly]

Jacksonville

[bm925]

I was hoping for more of a list of cities in addition to the two I listed-Where they rank in terms of population weight.

[bluescreen73]

The Colorado Springs CSA has a population of about 670,000. 435,000 of that is Colorado Springs proper.

[bm925]

Anchorage, AK Proper: 292,000; Metro: 396,000. That makes it 74%.

[bm925]

Boston proper is only 8% of its CSA. Which probably explains in part, its epic rush hour traffic.

[eschaton]

Lincoln, Nebraska has around 85% of the population of the Lincoln MSA.

A Google satellite view shows why. Nearly all developed land is within city limits.

[Chicago60614]

Des Moines, Iowa is only 27% of it's CSA of 755,000.

Chicago is also 27% of its CSA of 9,913,000

[mjlo]

Statistic best served by Mountain West cities with Giant footprints

El Paso 81.16%
Albuquerque 61.79%
Tucson 52.79%

Numbers are from wikipedia. I went to look at Fresno because I thought it would be the same it turns out Fresno is only 112sq mi so it's more dense than I thought it was. It looks to be just under 50% of it's metro but the numbers were not reliable and I didn't have time to look deeper. Also ABQ has a very Generous Metro area the size of a New England State at just under 1million. If you use it's urban area which is a more reflective of it's actual size that number jumps more than 15%

[kidphilly]

Philadelphia is ~1.6 Million for city proper and an MSA of ~6.0/1 or about 26%