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re: Size and Growth of SEC Metros
Posted on 3/24/17 at 10:55 am to BHMKyle
Posted on 3/24/17 at 10:55 am to BHMKyle
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quote:Curious on what they considered as Metro. You would have to expand the city boundaries to Birmingham for Tuscaloosa and Montgomery for Auburn to show those population levels. Tuscaloosa MSA is defined as Tuscaloosa County. Auburn-Opelika MSA is defined as Lee County. Those totals are simply the total population of those counties.
Is Birmingham just Jefferson County ? Which is misleading if so. You would think it would be defined by a measurement (distance) from the city limits.
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Posted on 3/24/17 at 11:04 am to Irons Puppet
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Is Birmingham just Jefferson County ? Which is misleading if so
Dude. The definition is based on how an area interacts via commerce and labor.
Most micropolitan areas are simply county boundaries because they are small cities and don't draw significant numbers of people from outside that county to work and shop.
Smaller metros are often the same way.
The county adjacent to the south of Fayetteville has 65,000 people, but isn't considered a part of the Fayetteville metro. That's because most of the people tend to either work or shop down in Fort Smith.
It isn't all that difficult to understand. Counties are added and subtracted from metros occasionally based on different working and shopping patterns.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 11:05 am to Irons Puppet
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Is Birmingham just Jefferson County ? Which is misleading if so. You would think it would be defined by a measurement (distance) from the city limits.
No, it is 7 counties: Jefferson, Shelby, Blount, Bibb, St. Clair, Walker, and Chilton.
Essentially it all deals with how many people commute in. If something like 25% of a county's workforce commutes into the city for work, it is included in the metro.
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