{"id":3442,"date":"2013-05-30T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2013-05-30T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T18:57:02","slug":"census-redefines-metro-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/census-redefines-metro-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Census redefines metro areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of February, the census put out new lists of metro areas based on the 2010 census. The metropolitan (&gt;50,000) and micropolitan (&gt;10,000) areas are drawn up based on &#8220;a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties.&#8221; That means counties with commuters to multiple surrounding areas, such as Cedar and Tama, don&#8217;t get included in any of them. The Census Bureau noted that it had changed the definition of Combined Statistical Areas, which affected Iowa too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/population\/metro\/files\/metro_micro_Feb2013.pdf\">The only map available online is pretty rough, though (PDF).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>West Des Moines officially got equal billing with Des Moines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/omb\/bulletins\/fy2006\/b06-01_rev_2.pdf\">at the end of 2005 (PDF)<\/a> after reaching 50,000 population. Here&#8217;s how things stand now, with changes in bold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">One-county micropolitan areas: Boone (Boone), Clinton (Clinton), <strong>Fairfield (Jefferson)<\/strong>, Fort Dodge (Webster), Marshalltown (Marshall), Muscatine (Muscatine; <strong>Louisa is out<\/strong>), Newton (Jasper), Oskaloosa (Mahaska), Spencer (Clay), Spirit Lake (Dickinson), Storm Lake (Buena Vista). <strong>Pella (Marion) is off the list<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Multi-county micropolitan areas: Burlington (Des Moines and Henderson IL), Mason City (Cerro Gordo and Worth), Ottumwa (Wapello <strong>and now Davis<\/strong>).\u00a0<strong>Hancock County IL<\/strong> has been added to Lee IA and Clark MO for Fort Madison-Keokuk, creating a three-county, three-state micro area.<\/li>\n<li>Metropolitan areas entirely within Iowa: Ames (Story), Cedar Rapids (Benton-Linn-Jones), Des Moines-West Des Moines (Polk-Dallas-Guthrie-Madison-Warren), Dubuque (Dubuque), Iowa City (Johnson-Washington), Waterloo-Cedar Falls (Black Hawk-Grundy-Bremer).<\/li>\n<li>Metropolitan areas on the border: Davenport-Moline-Rock Island (Scott plus three in Illinois), Omaha-Council Bluffs (Harrison-Pottawattamie-Mills plus five in Nebraska), Sioux City (Woodbury <strong>and now Plymouth<\/strong>, two in Nebraska, Union SD). Also of note, Fillmore County MN, which borders Iowa, is now part of the Rochester MSA; Houston County MN in the southeast corner remains in the La Crosse WI MSA; and all three South Dakota counties that border Iowa are in MSAs (Union with Sioux City, Minnehaha and Lincoln with Sioux Falls).<\/li>\n<li>Combined Statistical Areas: <strong>Cedar Rapids-Iowa City is a new five-county CSA. Des Moines-Ames-West Des Moines is a six-county CSA<\/strong>, replacing Ames-Boone and Des Moines-Newton-Pella. <strong>Clinton, Muscatine, and Scott counties are in a new Davenport-Moline CSA<\/strong>, three counties in Iowa and three in Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>All told, 38 of 99 counties are in metropolitan or micropolitan areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;\">I wonder if the closing of Maytag was a major factor in the central Iowa change. Also, it&#8217;s likely only a matter of time before West Des Moines bumps Ames in naming position.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of February, the census put out new lists of metro areas based on the 2010 census. The metropolitan (&gt;50,000) and micropolitan (&gt;10,000) areas are drawn up based on &#8220;a high degree of social and economic integration with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/census-redefines-metro-areas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}