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Another one that should be merged again is Macon, Georgia and Warner Robins Georgia.....so stupid for them to be separate. You literally cross the county line from Macon city limits in Bibb County Georgia to Warner Robins City limits in Houston County Ga.
Another one that should be merged again is Macon, Georgia and Warner Robins Georgia.....so stupid for them to be separate. You literally cross the county line from Macon city limits in Bibb County Georgia to Warner Robins City limits in Houston County Ga.
Because you are literally making the same case as going from Raleigh to Durham, and because I am not familiar with Macon and Warner-Robins, I went to GoogleMaps to take a look. I don't see that the two cities actually touch. The seem to be 7 miles apart at their closest.
Orange County won’t become MSA. It’s incredibly rare for a county to go from not even in the CSA going straight to MSA. It’s extremely likely to join the CSA, but the MSA is a bridge too far.
Calvert probably leaves the MSA and joins Saint Marys. Development patterns and commuting between the two is becoming quickly intertwined. It still stays CSA though.
That Lusby-Solomons-California-Lexington Park corridor is booming and pulling the two close together.
And I just look at some commuting numbers of OnTheMap.
TBH even down to 20685 (St. Leonard area) you're still talking about more commuters to PG or AA (Calvert is of course #1) than St. Mary's. You literally have to get to the southern tip (20657, which would be Lusby) where you start having St. Mary's County commuter dominating. The county overall only has like 10% commute to St. Mary's vs. 18% to PG (+5% to DC).
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Not happening anytime soon tbh. Hagerstown is large enough that its own job center, but it's already part of the DC-Baltimore CSA so that point is moot.
York-Hanover, PA would have been the next logical choice for an addition to the CSA but that was put into the grave when they combined with Harrisburg to create a new CSA.
And commute pattern agrees with Harrisburg - something like 6.6% each to Dauphin and Cumberland Co (so about 13.2% between just those two) vs. something like 7% to Baltimore City + Co.
And TBH the "buying a house in PA b/c it's cheaper across state line" phenomenon really slowed down quite a bit.
...which updates OPM's schedules to match OMB's 2020 delineations.
(It's a good example of why OMB, which by virtue of being inside the White House is higher up the federal org chart than Census, is in charge of MSA delineations -- they affect all kinds of government agencies.)
Wait how are Huntsville’s CSA and Birmingham’s CSA and their surrounding counties locality pay areas but Mobile CSA (Baldwin County) and surrounding counties not?
Wait how are Huntsville’s CSA and Birmingham’s CSA and their surrounding counties locality pay areas but Mobile CSA (Baldwin County) and surrounding counties not?
It's a weird list. Memphis, New Orleans, Tampa, Orlando, Tulsa, Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, Chattanooga, Augusta, either Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Jacksonville, Louisville, Nashville, Ashville, Knoxville, Grand Rapids, Madison, Little Rock, Boise, Wichita, Pensacola, Sarasota, El Paso, Toledo, Roanoke, Savannah, McAllen, Baton Rouge, Jackson, Lexington, Peoria, Scranton and Syracuse aren't included either.
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