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Old 03-29-2013, 06:08 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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The OMB has added three counties (Mille Lacs, Sibley, and Le Sueur) to the official Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metropolitan Statistical Area. I imagine that the Mankato MSA will be incorporated into the CSA as well.

Metro area creeps farther into rural Minnesota | Ground Level | Minnesota Public Radio
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Old 03-29-2013, 06:22 PM
 
Location: Carver County, MN
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That's crazy. When I think of Sibley County all their is too it is small towns and corn fields. Their is noting metro about it LOL! Sure a few people from the east side of the county work in the Twin Cities, but come on! Why didn't they include McLeod County if they were to include these more rural counties?

I sill consider it the 7 County Metro Area
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Old 03-29-2013, 08:09 PM
 
Location: Minnesota
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The Twin Cities has more connection to the northwest than from two counties away. Love to hear how they reasoned that Mille Lacs and LeSueur belonged in the metro.
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Old 03-29-2013, 09:13 PM
 
Location: Boilermaker Territory
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Complete nonsense. The only possible reason I could think of would be commuting patterns, but I'm sure the percentages would be low. This sounds similar to the Census Bureau adding rural outlying counties to MSAs like Atlanta or Kansas City. Many of the outlying counties have had next to no growth for years and mainly have a larger elderly population.
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Old 03-29-2013, 09:59 PM
 
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Soon the twin cities will include Rochester and eau claire and a few years after that Madison.
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Old 03-29-2013, 11:36 PM
 
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I believe it's entirely based on commuting patterns. It has to do with the percentage of workers in that county that commute to the center cities/counties of the MSA.
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Old 03-30-2013, 08:17 AM
 
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Dumb.
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Old 03-30-2013, 08:32 AM
 
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They add counties when a quarter or more of the working population commutes to the "core counties" of the bigger metro area. With those counties the overall numbers are low, but as a percentage of the workforce more than 25% is getting to be pretty significant.
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Old 03-30-2013, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Minnesota
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Soon the twin cities will include Rochester and eau claire and a few years after that Madison.
If LeSueur fits, then how about Roberts WI? I worked at the City of Minneapolis with a guy who commuted daily from Roberts. And at another job with a woman who commuted from farmland in Western Wisconsin. I'd say all the communities on the St Croix are more part of our MSA than any of those places down south.
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Old 03-30-2013, 10:48 PM
 
Location: Salinas, CA
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The OMB has added three counties (Mille Lacs, Sibley, and Le Sueur) to the official Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metropolitan Statistical Area. I imagine that the Mankato MSA will be incorporated into the CSA as well.

Metro area creeps farther into rural Minnesota | Ground Level | Minnesota Public Radio
I am surprised that Mille Lacs would be included, but not Rice (home of Northfield and two excellent colleges: Carleton and St. Olaf). Rice County is also closer than Mille Lacs County to the three primary cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Bloomington.
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