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	Metro Areas - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs.
		A metropolitan area usually combines an agglomeration (the contiguous built-up area) with peripheral zones not themselves necessarily urban in character but closely bound to the centre by employment or commerce; these zones are also sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban periphery depending on the definition used.
		The term metropolitan area is sometimes abbreviated to 'metro', for example in Metro Manila and Washington, DC Metro Area, and then should not be mistaken to mean the metro rail system of the city.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /metro_areas.htm (623 words)

	ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Measuring Rurality: What is Rural?
		Metropolitan (metro) and nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas are defined on the basis of counties.
		In 2003, OMB defined metro areas as (1) central counties with one or more urbanized areas, and (2) outlying counties that are economically tied to the core counties as measured by work commuting.
		Nonmetro counties are outside the boundaries of metro areas and are further subdivided into two types: micropolitan areas, centered on urban clusters of 10,000 or more persons, and all remaining "noncore" counties.
	www.ers.usda.gov /Briefing/Rurality/WhatisRural (711 words)

	MaineScience - Happenings - News
		The nation's metropolitan areas were responsible for "driving the economic performance of the nation as a whole last year," accounting for 98 percent of job growth and 86 percent of national economic growth, according to a new report prepared for the U.S. Conference of Mayors by DRI/WEFA.
		Metro areas' share of U.S. economic output increased from 84.6 percent in 1991 to 85.2 percent last year and is predicted to reach 86.7 percent in 25 years.
		Metro area workers earn an average of $40,600 in wages and benefits versus $28,200 for those in non-metro areas.
	www.state.me.us /mstf/htdocs/news/2002/07h_metro_areas.html (461 words)

	Racial Integration in 100 Largest Metro Areas
		Milwaukee's metro ranking on the index (82.16) is based on the "ideal" of moving 197,890 fls of the total 240,859 fl population (or 82.16%) out of their "too fl" census tracts and into the remaining "whiter" tracts.
		The OMB defines metro areas to include cities with a population of at least 50,000 (or an urbanized area with at least 100,000 people) along with the county in which the city is located and adjacent counties considered to have a "metropolitan character" based on commuting patterns, population density, and economic and social interrelationships.
		The metropolitan areas were used as the unit of analysis to compare the segregation index rankings to the percentages of residents living on fl-white integrated blocks for the 100 largest metropolitan areas.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/ETI/integration/integration.htm (5999 words)

	USCM \| 70th Annual Meeting
		Metro economies function as engines of economic growth, job and income creation, and new industry for their region and for the nation as whole.
		In the aggregate, metro areas outperformed non-metro areas economically in 2001.
		Metro areas' share of U.S. economic output increased from 84.6% in 1991 to 85.2% last year and is predicted to reach 86.7% in 25 years.
	usmayors.org /70thAnnualMeeting/madisonmetro_061402.asp (636 words)

	ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Measuring Rurality: Rural-Urban Continuum Codes
		Rural-Urban Continuum Codes form a classification scheme that distinguishes metropolitan (metro) counties by the population size of their metro area, and nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) counties by degree of urbanization and adjacency to a metro area or areas.
		Metro counties are distinguished by population size of the Metropolitan Statistical Area of which they are part.
		Urban population of 2,500 to 19,999, not adjacent to a metro area
	www.ers.usda.gov /briefing/rurality/RuralUrbCon (869 words)

	Open Directory - Regional:North America:Canada:Ontario:Metro Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Census Metropolitan Area of Kingston is in the southern region of Ontario, near Lake Ontario and southwest of Ottawa.
		The London Metro area is comprised of London, Port Stanley, the Township of Southwold, St. Thomas, and West Nissouri.
		The Thunder Bay Metro area is comprised of Neebing, Oliver Paipoonge, the Township of Shuniah, and Thunder Bay.
	dmoz.org /Regional/North_America/Canada/Ontario/Metro_Areas/desc.html (1038 words)

	Research Brief - Population Gains Strongest in Alabama’s Metro Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Population growth in the remainder of Alabama’s metropolitan areas was slow—from 1990 to 1998, population gains amounted to 4.5 percent in the Florence metropolitan area, 4.1 percent in Gadsden, 2.9 percent in Dothan, and 0.8 percent in Anniston.
		Alabama’s population residing in its metro areas in 1998 was a substantial 70.1 percent of the total; still, however, below the U.S. average of 80.1 percent.
		Three metro areas in the state either met or exceeded the national average of 1.0 percent population growth for the year July 1, 1997 through July 1, 1998.
	cber.cba.ua.edu /rbriefs/msapop9098.html (354 words)

	Regional Economist
		In terms of migration decisions, the principle of revealed preference says that a person's movement from one metro area to another reveals that she prefers the new metro area to her previous one.
		According to these calculations, the most-livable metro area in the United States for the period 1990-97 was Las Vegas, followed by Atlanta and Phoenix.
		Once the ranking of metro areas is known, the next step is to find out which factors prevail in the high-ranked areas.
	www.stlouisfed.org /publications/re/1999/b/re1999b4.html (1267 words)

	Strong Home Price Pattern Continues in Most Metro Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		“In some of these areas we may be seeing a surge of first-time buyers at the lower end of the market, but many of them have gone through a period of local economic weakness, primarily in the labor markets, and they also have an adequate supply of homes from new home construction,” he said.
		After the Riverside-San Bernardino, Las Vegas and Anaheim-Santa Ana areas, the strongest increase in the region was in Los Angeles-Long Beach, where the median price of $387,700 rose 25.8 percent from a year earlier.
		Regional median home prices include rural areas and samples of many smaller metros that are not included in this report; the regional percentage changes do not necessarily parallel changes in the larger metro areas.
	www.realtor.org /PublicAffairsWeb.nsf/Pages/May04MetroPrices?OpenDocument (1027 words)

	Maternal and Child Health
		Pregnant women in non-metro areas were somewhat less likely than metro women to begin their prenatal care in the first trimester (75% vs. 79%); 5% of non-metro pregnant women began their prenatal care in the third trimester or not at all.
		The groups at highest rates of mortality in metro and non-metro areas are infants under a year old, and adolescents and young adults, age 15-24.
		The neonatal death rate for African Americans is almost double that for whites in metro and non-metro settings and the mortality rate for fl infants in utero is almost 25% higher in non-metro areas than in metro areas.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /rsse/html/maternal.html (379 words)

	Civic Strategies Metro Areas Scan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		What's happening in metro areas across the U.S. These are civic issues that are "in the news" in a number of metropolitan areas around the country.
		Atlanta is the most sprawling metro area in the country, according to a study by the Fannie Mae Foundation.
		The big three metro areas for college enrollment per 100,000 population, degrees granted and research dollars are Boston (Harvard, MIT), New York (Columbia, NYU) and, surprisingly, Atlanta (Emory, Georgia Tech), according to a new study by the Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education.
	www.civic-strategies.com /resources/areas_scan.htm (13991 words)

	Metro
		Metro protects open space and parks, plans for land use and transportation, and manages garbage disposal and recycling for 1.3 million residents in three counties and 25 cities in the Portland, Oregon, region.
		Metro works to keep nature in neighborhoods by acquiring and restoring open spaces, protecting fish and wildlife habitat, providing parks and natural areas, supporting volunteer stewardship, teaching natural gardening, and operating the Oregon Zoo, which has many acclaimed conservation programs.
		Metro manages the region’s solid waste system and can help you recycle and reduce waste, find a recycler or garbage hauler and identify and reduce use of hazardous waste.
	www.metro-region.org (465 words)

	County News Online
		For instance, of the nation’s 317 metro areas, 31 are contained in two states, while another four are contained in three states.
		Metro areas are now generating 84 percent of the nation’s employment and 88 percent of the nation’s income.
		Metro economies are responsible for 89 percent or more than $2 trillion, of the nation’s economic growth from 1992 to 1998.
	www.naco.org /cnews/1999/99-11-8/economy.htm (639 words)

	The areas leading metro Detroit's housing boom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A community really has to be booming to be picked as one of metro Detroit's five hottest areas right now, when house values and new building are flourishing all over southeastern Michigan.
		So the areas chosen here all show accelerated prosperity -- in most cases a lot of new building, combined with fast-rising prices on existing houses.
		The populations of Novi, Wixom and Springfield Township all increased by 23 to 28 percent.
	www.freep.com /realestate/renews/qplaceb16.htm (815 words)

	Directory - Regional: North America: United States: Tennessee: Metro Areas
		It is the center of a three-state metropolitan area that is often referred to as the Mid-South." Knoxville is the largest city in East Tennessee and the center of a metropolitan area that extends into the foothills of the Smoky Mountains.
		Chattanooga is the center of a metropolitan area in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia.
		The Tri-Cities Metro Area of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia is centered around the cities of Johnson City and Kingsport in Tennessee, and Bristol, which lies on both sides of the state boundary.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=359812 (175 words)

	Third Quarter Metro Home Prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The association’s third-quarter metro area home price report, covering changes in 127 metropolitan statistical areas,* shows 45 areas with double-digit annual increases in median existing-home prices and 11 areas posting small declines.
		The strongest metro area price increase was in the Las Vegas area where the third-quarter median existing-home price of $283,200 was 53.7 percent higher than a year earlier, the highest rate of price growth ever measured in any metropolitan area.
		The strongest increase in the region was in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area of New York, where the third quarter median price of $174,000 rose 18.3 percent in the last year.
	www.realtor.org /PublicAffairsWeb.nsf/Pages/MetroPrices3rdQtr04?OpenDocument (1004 words)

	WebWire® \| Most Metro Areas See Historically High Home-Price Gains, Says NAR
		The areas experiencing price declines were lower-priced markets, with one or both of the conditions necessary for price softness — local economic weakness, primarily in jobs, or a large supply of homes for sale in the local area.
		Median second-quarter metro area resale prices ranged from $73,400 in Danville, Ill., to nearly 10 times that amount in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont area of California where the median price was $726,900.
		After the Cape Coral-Fort Meyers and Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville areas of Florida, the strongest increase in the South was in the Orlando area, at $232,200, up 36.5 percent from the second quarter of 2004.
	www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?aId=3693 (1166 words)

	Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area Definitions
		Currently defined metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas are based on application of the 2000 standards (which appeared in the Federal Register on December 27, 2000) to Census 2000 data, as updated by application of those standards to more recent Census Bureau population estimates.
		OMB Bulletin No. 05-02 announcing updates to metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas as of November 2004, based on the Census Bureau’s July 1, 2002 and July 1, 2003 population estimates for cities and towns, and in specified circumstances, local opinion.
		OMB Bulletin No. 04-03 announcing updates to metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas as of December 2003, based on the Census Bureau’s July 1, 2001 and July 1, 2002 population estimates for cities and towns, and in specified circumstances, local opinion.
	www.census.gov /population/www/estimates/metrodef.html (722 words)

	Connecticut District 3: Top Metro Areas
		For most candidates, the richest source of large individual contributions will be the most populous metro areas within their state or district.
		The "metro areas" are based on "statistical metropolitan areas" and "primary statistical metropolitan areas" as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.
		Contributions from areas outside any metro area are not included, nor are contributions from PACs.
	www.opensecrets.org /1998elect/dist_metro/98CT03pmsa.htm (227 words)

	U.S. Cities and Metro Areas: Census 2000
		(A metropolitan area is a city plus the adjacent communities to which it is linked economically.) All of the metropolitan areas with populations of at least 5 million grew over the period, ranging from 29% for the Dallas metropolitan area to 5% for Philadelphia.
		The total population within metropolitan areas increased by 14%, while the nonmetropolitan population grew by 10%.
		A golden '90s for the Gopher State; The rise in household incomes in the 1990s vaulted the Twin Cities into the top tier of the nation's metro areas.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0884086.html (616 words)

	Recent Trends In New Residential Permits for 2000’s Top 25 Metro Areas
		Seven of 2000's top ten areas (in terms of sheer volume of permitted new residential construction) were able to improve upon their year-earlier totals during the first-third of 2001.
		And in the rest of the country, two areas — Raleigh-Durham and Portland — are on the comeback trail this year after recording sharp declines in permit activity between 1999 and 2000.
		A couple of other metro areas with impressive permit volume and strong growth through four months of 2001 are San Aon tentonio (+32.7%) and Kansas City (+15.6%).
	www.housingzone.com /index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA467362 (477 words)

	Metro areas with highest pay in 2001, MLR: The Editor's Desk
		San Jose, California, retained its position in 2001 as the metropolitan area with the highest average annual pay ($65,926), a position it has held since 1997.
		This area held this position despite experiencing the largest decline (13.5 percent) in average annual pay among the 10 metropolitan areas with decreases in 2001.
		Average pay levels in these five metropolitan areas ranged from 31 to 74 percent above the average for all metropolitan areas in the nation.
	www.bls.gov /opub/ted/2002/nov/wk2/art02.htm (190 words)

	New report benchmarks new economy transformation of metro areas (April 27, 2001)
		Seventeen economic indicators are used to measure metro area progress in adapting to change.
		The report contends that future economic success will increasingly be determined by how effectively states and metro areas can spur technological innovation, entrepreneurship, education, and specialized skills, and by the transition of all organizations - public and private - from bureaucratic hierarchies into learning networks.
		Finally, the report discusses economic development strategies for metropolitan areas and states, including co-investing in workforce skills, co-investing in an innovation infrastructure, promoting innovation and customer-oriented government, fostering a digital economy, and expanding civic collaboration.
	www.subnet.nga.org /workforcecouncilchairs/news/NewEcon.asp (176 words)

	USATODAY.com - Racial, ethnic lines remain sharp in metro areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In metro areas where most fls, Hispanics and Asians live, all three minority groups are just as segregated from whites as they were in 1990.
		Black-white segregation is highest in metros in the Northeast and Midwest, areas that absorbed most of the fl migration from the rural South before World War II.
		Logan's analysis shows that the average white person lives in an area that is almost 83% white and 7% fl.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/census/2001-04-03-ethnicsegregation.htm (384 words)

	Metro areas with highest percentages of high-tech workers, MLR: The Editor's Desk
		Metro areas with highest percentages of high-tech workers
		Average annual wages in 2001 for high-tech occupations in the 10 metropolitan areas shown in the chart ranged from $48,120 in Melbourne-Titusville-Palm Bay, Florida to $79,800 in San Jose, California.
		In all of these areas the high-tech occupations had wages at least 50 percent higher than the average for non-high-tech occupations.
	www.bls.gov /opub/ted/2003/aug/wk3/art05.htm (218 words)

	Merging metro areas riles up cities - 2/29/00
		These are some of the comments sent to the Metropolitan Area Standards Review Committee last year after it proposed changing the way the federal government defines urban areas.
		Because the census based its definitions of Metropolitan Statistical Areas on the population of the central city -- rather than an entire county -- Schuylkill County and its 152,585 people failed to make the cut, because its residents were scattered in cities that fell below the 50,000 threshold.
		Hospitals in outlying areas argue that they have to pay high wages to lure people from cities, but they don't get the same payment from the government.
	www.detnews.com /2000/nation/0002/29/02290145.htm (411 words)

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