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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
today I learned that that's actually Cincinnati, which I'd always assumed was the 3rd city...)
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it all depends on how you slice and dice things.
by Urban Area (2010):
cleveland: 1,780,673
cincinnati: 1,624,827
columbus: 1,368,035
(as the fastest growing of the 3, columbus has almost certainly closed this gap a bit over the past 9 years)
by MSA (2018):
cincinnati: 2,190,209
columbus: 2,106,541
cleveland: 2,057,009
by CSA (2018):
cleveland: 3,599,264
columbus: 2,509,850
cincinnati: 2,272,152
cincy is either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd depending on metric.
in reality, these three cities are all extremely comparable to each other size-wise, which is pretty remarkable.
cleveland only jumps way ahead at the CSA level because it pulls in Akron and Canton, roughly 30 and 50 miles south of the city.
i can't think of another state whose 3 alpha cities are all that closely bunched together size-wise at the MSA level.