Principal Cities vs. Urban Area

Ever get confused how much the ratio between the population of an urban area and its principal city fluctuate so much? Enter the census-designated Metropolitan Statistical Areas that hold the smallest proportion of their population in their principal city.

Only includes areas whose principal cities have a population of at least 100,000. Sorry Harrisburg.

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Metro Pop	% In Principal City	Answer
4,650,631.00	7.13%	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA
6,166,488.00	7.59%	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL MSA
6,020,364.00	8.42%	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA MSA
1,204,877.00	10.13%	Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT MSA
2,803,228.00	10.72%	St. Louis, MO-IL MSA
2,608,147.00	11.02%	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA
1,624,578.00	11.07%	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA MSA
6,280,487.00	11.24%	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA

Metro Pop	% In Principal City	Answer
3,654,908.00	11.75%	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI MSA
3,194,831.00	12.51%	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA
2,317,600.00	12.96%	Pittsburgh, PA MSA
2,221,208.00	13.68%	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN MSA
4,873,019.00	14.21%	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH MSA
844,052.00	14.39%	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ MSA
838,433.00	14.69%	Columbia, SC MSA

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8 Comments

Level 81

Sep 8, 2021

You need to specify this is for the US only

Level 76

Sep 8, 2021

Level 60

Sep 24, 2021

Metropolitan Statistical Areas are an official designation for US cities created by the US Office of Management and Budget. When talking about international cities, a more general term like Urban Area or Metro Area would be used.

Level 65

Jan 31, 2022

It would not hurt to specify that your quiz is for US cities only and not for all cities in the world.

The term "metropolitan area" is not only used by the US.

It is also normal that not every person is familiar with the names of the terms used for statistics in each country.

So it would be very helpful for many quiz takers if you could add a very short reference anywhere mentioning that your quiz focuses on cities in the US. Hope you will reconsider.

Level 79

Sep 8, 2021

I love this! It really demonstrates why using metro or urban area makes more sense than city proper in most cases. A city proper can include as much or as little of its actual area of influence as it wants to, apparently down to less than a tenth of that area's population! It contrasts wildly with a consolidated city-county like Indianapolis, which has just under 50% of its metro pop in city limits.

Level 60

Oct 10, 2021

Thanks for the response!

Level 68

Sep 8, 2021

This is great. Seems like the problem is mostly on the East Coast with the major exception of Riverside.

Level 48

Sep 9, 2021

Can you please state clearly upfront that you've only bothered to include US cities in the quiz?