Map of the three metropolitan statistical areas in Delaware.
A map of the three metropolitan statistical areas in Delaware.[1]

The U.S. State of Delaware currently has four statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated one combined statistical area, two metropolitan statistical areas, and one micropolitan statistical area in Delaware.[1]

Statistical areas

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico.[2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.

The OMB defines a core-based statistical area (commonly referred to as a CBSA) as "a statistical geographic entity consisting of the county or counties (or county-equivalents) associated with at least one core[lower-alpha 1] of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with the counties containing the core."[2] The OMB further divides core-based statistical areas into metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) that have "a population of at least 50,000" and micropolitan statistical areas (μSAs) that have "a population of at least 10,000, but less than 50,000."[2]

The OMB defines a combined statistical area (CSA) as "a geographic entity consisting of two or more adjacent core-based statistical areas with employment interchange measures[lower-alpha 2] of at least 15%."[2] The primary statistical areas (PSAs) include all combined statistical areas and any core-based statistical area that is not a constituent of a combined statistical area.

Table

The table below describes the five United States statistical areas and three counties of the State of Delaware with the following information:[3]

  1. The combined statistical area (CSA) as designated by the OMB.[1]
  2. The CSA population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates.[4]
  3. The core based statistical area (CBSA)[2] as designated by the OMB.[1]
  4. The CBSA population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates [4]
  5. The county name
  6. The county population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates [4]
  7. The Metropolitan Division name, if applicable[1]
  8. The Metropolitan Division population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates [4]
The five United States statistical areas and three counties of the State of Delaware
Combined Statistical Area 2020 Population Core Based Statistical Area 2020 Population County 2020 Population Metropolitan Division 2020 Population
Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA 7,379,700
752,570		 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA 6,245,051
570,719		 Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 1,603,797 Philadelphia, PA MD 2,180,627
Delaware County, Pennsylvania 576,830
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 856,553 Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA MD 2,037,504
Bucks County, Pennsylvania 646,538
Chester County, Pennsylvania 534,413
Camden County, New Jersey 523,485 Camden, NJ MD 1,287,639
Burlington County, New Jersey 461,860
Gloucester County, New Jersey 302,294
New Castle County, Delaware 570,719 Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ MD 739,281
570,719
Cecil County, Maryland 103,725
Salem County, New Jersey 64,837
Reading, PA MSA 428,849 Berks County, Pennsylvania 428,849 none
Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ MSA 369,797 Atlantic County, New Jersey 274,534
Cape May County, New Jersey 95,263
Dover, DE MSA 181,851 Kent County, Delaware 181,851
Vineland, NJ MSA 154,152 Cumberland County, New Jersey 154,152
none Seaford, DE μSA 237,378 Sussex County, Delaware 237,378
State of Delaware 989,948

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The OMB defines a core as "a densely settled concentration of population, comprising an Urban Area (of 10,000 or more population) delineated by the Census Bureau, around which a core-based statistical area is delineated."[2]
  2. ↑ The OMB defines the employment interchange measure as "the sum of the percentage of workers living in the smaller entity who work in the larger entity plus the percentage of employment in the smaller entity that is accounted for by workers who reside in the larger entity."[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Combined Statistical Areas, and Guidance on Uses of the Delineations of These Areas (July 21, 2023). "OMB BULLETIN NO. 23-01" (PDF). Office of Management and Budget. Retrieved November 5, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "2020 Standards for Delineating Core Based Statistical Areas". Office of Management and Budget. July 16, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
  3. ↑ An out-of-state area and its population are displayed in green. An area that extends into more than one state is displayed in teal. A teal population number over a black population number show the total population versus the in-state population.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties in the United States: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. April 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

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