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I wonder if Pine Bluff is now a micropolitain area since it's dropped below 49,000 now?
Again, a city's population has nothing to do with whether or not a city qualifies as a metropolitan area or not. In 2010 Pine Bluff's city population was 49,083 but it was still classified as a metropolitan area because its urban population was 53,495. Plenty of other cities are metropolitan areas even though their city populations are less than 50k, such as Morristown TN and Dalton GA.
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That is an interesting question. In 1990, Enid, OK went to 50,363 and declared a metro. But every decade since then it went to just below 50,000. But in 2020, it became Oklahoma's 9th largest city with a bit over 50,000.
Oh, it looks like Enid actually went from metro to nothing. I see it in a map of MSAs by population change from 1990-2000, but not a similar map from 2000-2010. Good find!
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Originally Posted by brock2010
I wonder if Pine Bluff is now a micropolitain area since it's dropped below 49,000 now?
It could be. I see a military base near it, which I know are counted as part of the urban area (probably the only reason Sierra Vista, AZ is a "metropolitan area"), but that might not have enough people stationed there to keep the Pine Bluff urban area above 50k. And the city only really has one small suburb, White Hall, which seems to also be losing population rapidly.
I wonder if Pine Bluff is now a micropolitain area since it's dropped below 49,000 now?
Pine Bluff is still listed as a MSA, and it's probably going to stay that way until 2023 when the OMB does its next update. At that time, it could be moved to Micropolitan status. FWIW, the 2020 Census number for the MSA is 87,751, down from 100,258 in 2010. That's a substantial drop by percentage in just ten years.
I actually live in #61, which is odd to me because I live just about 10 miles from the Tyler TX metro area in what is considered a bedroom community of Tyler (that metro area has a population of about 225,000). So I really relate a lot more to Tyler than to Dallas, but I guess technically I'm part of the Dallas metropolitan area. That's fine I guess but I go to Tyler nearly every single day and only go to Dallas once every month or so.
So that just goes to show that these lists and designations can be pretty arbitrary.
I actually live in #61, which is odd to me because I live just about 10 miles from the Tyler TX metro area in what is considered a bedroom community of Tyler (that metro area has a population of about 225,000). So I really relate a lot more to Tyler than to Dallas, but I guess technically I'm part of the Dallas metropolitan area. That's fine I guess but I go to Tyler nearly every single day and only go to Dallas once every month or so.
So that just goes to show that these lists and designations can be pretty arbitrary.
Wouldn't it be crazy if Tyler's metro one day became part of Dallas' CSA?
Columbus,MS over 31K in 2010 census. Have no clue what's my hometown urban cluster pop is now. Interestingly, Tupelo's was 40K but have the most populous micropolitan area in the Sipp at 160K. People unaware of northeast MS wouldn't know of the economic competition between the two places. They're just an hour apart and many residents travel to each other. I thought Tupelo would become a metro in the 2020 census but perhaps in the 2030 census.
Meridian Mississippi and I believe Tupelo Mississippi are two micropolitan areas I'm familiar with. Tupelo is a fine little city, quaint and charming. Meridian has a lot of history, but it's losing people and jobs while crime skyrockets.
Tupelo is about 38k people with 140k in the area
Meridian is about 36k people with 110k in the area
Columbus,MS over 31K in 2010 census. Have no clue what's my hometown urban cluster pop is now. Interestingly, Tupelo's was 40K but have the most populous micropolitan area in the Sipp at 160K. People unaware of northeast MS wouldn't know of the economic competition between the two places. They're just an hour apart and many residents travel to each other. I thought Tupelo would become a metro in the 2020 census but perhaps in the 2030 census.
I think to be a metro you need the principal city to have at least 50,000 people. So Tupelo has a ways to go yet.
I visited Tupelo and Columbus/Starkville several times when I was stationed in Meridian. I really enjoyed all 3 of those cities, they were all vastly superior to my experiences in Meridian. Tupelo had the best mix of bigger city amenities with a small town feel. Although Starkville and the area had more of a national presence with the major university I feel, and by way of the university had all the associated events that went with a major university.
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