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Originally Posted by Cottonwood
There is another major metro in the state besides Boise and it is Coeur d'Alene which is included as part of the Spokane metropolitan area. Kootenai County where CDA is located has more people than Bonneville County where Idaho Falls is located.
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I guess it depends on how you see it. CDA is 30 miles from the spokane area while nampa is roughly 15 to 20 miles from boise but nampa has a far bigger pop and much more dense. So you could say then Nampa is Idaho's 2nd metro area. I say with both of these they are to close to another larger metro area. While IF, Twin, and even Pocky are far seperated from any other major metro area. But they are still small.
Either way I still say all three areas (Boise, CDA, and IF/Pocky) need to get bigger but that could be that I miss the high rises from when i lived in SF.
Run Down:
Nampa
Population (2007)
- City 79,249
- Density 3,982.4/sq mi (2,469.1/km2)
- Metro 624,000
CDA
Population (2007)
- City 43,683
- Density 2,628.9/sq mi (1,058.6/km2)
- Metro 131,507 (w/ Spokane-590,617)
Idaho Falls
Population (as of 2008[update])
- City 57,133
- Density 2,972.2/sq mi (447.2/km2)
- Metro 122,995 (this is for sure where IF Lacks not having a nearby Metro)
Those numbers come from Wiki. I also think it said it best on the wiki
"Idaho Falls is the third-largest metropolitan area in the state behind Boise City-Nampa and Coeur d'Alene, but the second-largest independent economic and cultural center, due to Coeur d'Alene's reliance on and connection with the larger Spokane, Washington. In the past decade, Idaho Falls proper has been surpassed in population by the Boise suburbs of Meridian and Nampa, making it technically the fifth-largest city in Idaho."