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Originally Posted by jimthemanincda
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Thanks for sharing the article jim.
I'm surprised the city manager for Twin Falls doesn't understand that a metro area is not only based on the central city reaching a population of 50,000 but also the designated urbanized area reaching a population threshold of 100,000 (in this case Twin Falls and Jerome counties). Per census.gov:
"Metropolitan Statistical Areas
An MSA consists of one or more counties that contain a city of 50,000 or more inhabitants, or contain a Census Bureau-defined urbanized area (UA) and have a total population of at least 100,000 (75,000 in New England). Counties containing the principal concentration of population—the largest city and surrounding densely settled area—are components of the MSA."
https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/ref...M/Ch13GARM.pdf