1940 ‘Metropolitan Districts’
These 1940 numbers use the same method as the previous 1930 list, so are comparable even if the lines are not exactly identical (Metro areas grow and add new territory over time, after all). As far as I can tell, each is usually the exact or nearly exact same geography anyway. For most of the multipolar metro areas, I have combined the populations of the core cities (in most of these cases, the Census Bureau made that combination and I am following their lead here).
Green indicates a positive rank change or growth rate over the national average (7%) in this decade, red indicates negative growth (or negative rank change, but only if there was also negative growth). Italics are metropolitan districts where the suburbs are larger than the core city. New entries are in bold. For this decade, I will only include as far down the list as is necessary to capture the whole universe of cities in the previous post (excluding those which had population decline, so down to Wheeling). Today, only a handful of metro areas below are beneath 1 million population.
Highlights: New York, Chicago, and many other cities had a larger decrease in their growth rates than the country as a whole, some core cities experience declines, Los Angeles is now the third largest metropolitan area, Providence loses Fall River and New Bedford which now anchor their own metro, Atlanta outgrows Birmingham, Texas rises, and Florida joins the list. There are a smattering of smaller metro areas as well—follow the link at the bottom.
1. New York City: 11,690,520
NYC: 7,454,995
NJ (Patterson, Jersey, Newark, Elizabeth): 980,501
Surroundings: 3,255,024
2. Chicago: 4,499,126
City: 3,396,808
Surroundings: 1,102,318
3. Los Angeles: 2,904,596
City: 1,504,277
Surroundings: 1,400,319
4. Philadelphia: 2,898,644
City: 1,931,334
Surroundings: 967,310
5. Boston: 2,350,514
City: 770,816
Surroundings: 1,579,698
6. Detroit: 2,295,867
City: 1,623,452
Surroundings: 672,415
7. Pittsburgh: 1,994,060
City: 671,659
Surroundings: 1,322,401
8. San Francisco-Oakland: 1,428,525
San Francisco: 634,536
Oakland: 302,163
Surroundings: 491,826
9. St. Louis: 1,367,977
City: 816,048
Surroundings: 551,929
10. Cleveland: 1,214,943
City: 878,336
Surroundings: 336,607
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11. Baltimore: 1,046,692
City: 859,100
Surroundings: 187,592
12. Minneapolis-St. Paul: 911,077
Cities: 780,106
Surroundings: 130,971
13. Washington, D.C. 907,816
City: 663,091
Surroundings: 244,725
14. Buffalo-Niagara Falls: 857,719
Cities: 653,950
Surroundings: 203,780
15. Milwaukee: 790,336
City: 587,472
Surroundings: 202,864
16. Cincinnati: 789,309
City: 455,610
Surroundings: 333,699
17. Providence: 711,500
Providence: 253,504
Surroundings: 457,996
18. Kansas City: 634,093
Cities: 520,636
Surroundings: 113,457
19. Scranton-Wilkes Barre: 629,581
Cities: 226,640
Surroundings: 402,941
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20. New Orleans: 540,030
City: 495,537
Surroundings: 45,493
21. Hartford-New Britain: 512,193
Cities: 234,952
Surroundings: 267,241
22. Houston: 510,397
City: 384,514
Surroundings: 125,883
23. Indianapolis: 455,357
City: 386,972
Surroundings: 68,385
24. Seattle: 452,639
City: 368,302
Surroundings: 84,337
25. Atlanta: 442,292
City: 302,208
Surroundings: 140,006
26. Louisville: 434,408
City: 319,077
Surroundings: 115,331
27. Albany-Schenectady-Troy: 431,575
Cities: 288,430
Surroundings: 143,145
28. Rochester: 411,970
City: 324,975
Surroundings: 86,905
29. Birmingham: 407,851
City: 267,583
Surroundings: 140,268
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30. Portland: 406,406
City: 305,894
Surroundings: 101,012
31. Springfield-Holyoke: 394,623
Cities: 203,304
Surroundings: 191,319
32. Denver: 384,372
City: 322,412
Surroundings: 61,960
33. Dallas: 376,548
City: 294,734
Surroundings: 81,814
34. Youngstown: 372,428
City: 167,720
Surroundings: 204,708
35. Columbus: 365,796
City: 306,087
Surroundings: 59,709
36. Akron: 349,705
City: 244,791
Surroundings: 104,914
37. Toledo: 341,663
City: 282,349
Surroundings: 59,314
38. Lowell-Lawrence-Haverhill: 334,969
Cities: 232,464
Surroundings: 102,506
39. Memphis: 332,477
City: 292,942
Surroundings: 39,535
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40. Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News: 330,396
Cities: 232,144
Surroundings: 98,252
41. Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton: 325,142
Cities: 188,983
Surroundings: 136,159
42. San Antonio: 319,010
City: 253,858
Surroundings: 65,156
43. New Haven: 308,228
City: 160,605
Surroundings: 147,623
44. Worcester: 306,194
City: 193,694
Surroundings: 112,500
45. Omaha-Council Bluffs: 287,698
Cities: 265,283
Surroundings: 22,415
46. Fall River-New Bedford: 272,648
Cities: 225,769
Surroundings: 46,869
47. Dayton: 271,513
City: 210,718
Surroundings: 60,795
48. Syracuse: 258,352
City: 207,967
Surroundings: 52,385
49. San Diego: 256,368
City: 203,341
Surroundings: 53,027
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50. Miami: 250,537
City: 172,172
Surroundings: 78,365
51. Richmond: 245,674
City: 193,042
Surroundings: 52,632
52. Nashville: 241,769
City: 167,402
Surroundings: 74,367
53. Oklahoma City: 221,229
City: 204,424
Surroundings: 16,805
54. Bridgeport: 216,621
City: 147,121
Surroundings: 69,500
55. Grand Rapids: 209,873
City: 164,292
Surroundings: 45,581
56. Tampa-St. Pete: 209,693
Cities: 169,203
Surroundings: 40,490
57. Fort Worth: 207,677
City: 177,662
Surroundings: 30,015
58. Salt Lake City: 204,488
City: 149,934
Surroundings: 54,554
59. Canton: 200,352
City: 108,401
Surroundings: 91,951
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60. Trenton: 200,128
City: 124,697
Surroundings: 75,431
61. Utica-Rome: 197,128
Cities: 134,732
Surroundings: 62,396
62. Wheeling: 196,340
City: 61,009
Surroundings: 135,241
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Source: https://www2.census.gov/library/publ...3538v1ch02.pdf
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HTOWN: 2305k (+10%) + MSA suburbs: 4818k (+26%) + CSA exurbs: 190k (+6%)
BIGD: 1304k (+9%) + MSA div. suburbs: 3826k (+26%) + adj. CSA exurbs: 394k (+8%)
FTW: 919k (+24%) + MSA div. suburbs: 1589k (+14%) + adj. CSA exurbs: 90k (+12%)
SATX: 1435k (+8%) + MSA suburbs: 1124k (+38%) + CSA exurbs: 18k (+11%)
ATX: 962k (+22%) + MSA suburbs: 1322k (+43%)
Last edited by wwmiv; Nov 25, 2022 at 5:30 AM.
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