Thread: When does a metro become midsized or large?
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Old Posted Nov 13, 2021, 5:20 AM
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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV View Post
The CSA was like 13,000 short of 10M in the 2020 census. MSA at 9.6 million.
And both measures include ~8 billion square miles of corn fields.

Not that it moves the needle a ton, because farmland doesn't have a lot of people to begin with, but going by the far more meaningful UA definition, Chicagoland was at 8.6M in 2010.

We still don't have 2020 UA figures yet, but perhaps Chicagoland inched up to 8.7 - 8.8M on that score?
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