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Metropolitan Areas in California
Select a Metropolitan Area from below to see the data links for that specific Metropolitan Area. The counties that make up the Metropolitan Area are shown in parenthesis.
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2003
Metropolitan Area Map
- Bakersfield MSA (Kern County)
- Chico MSA (Butte County)
- El Centro MSA (Imperial County)
- Fresno MSA (Fresno County)
- Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)
- Madera-Chowchilla MSA (Madera County)
- Merced MSA (Merced County)
- Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)
- Napa MSA (Napa County)
- Oakland-Fremont-Hayward MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)
- Redding MSA (Shasta County)
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)
- Sacramento-Arden Arcade-Roseville MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo Counties)
- Salinas MSA (Monterey County)
- San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos MSA (San Diego County)
- San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (Santa Clara and San Benito Counties)
- San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)
- Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine MD (Orange County)
- Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta MSA (Santa Barbara County)
- Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)
- Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)
- Stockton MSA (San Joaquin County)
- Vallejo-Fairfield MSA (Solano County)
- Visalia-Porterville MSA (Tulare County)
- Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)
Every ten years after the federal decennial census, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reviews the commute patterns and economic dependencies between counties. The general concept of these areas is one of a large population nucleus, together with adjacent communities that have a high degree of economic and social integration with that nucleus.
Using the data from the 2000 census, the OMB revised or created new Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) across the country. These new Metropolitan Areas become the standard geographic areas for which economic data are produced by cooperative programs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. OMB's 2000 standards provide for the identification of the following types of statistical areas in California:
- Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) have at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties.
- Metropolitan Divisions (MD) - If the specified criteria are met, a Metropolitan Statistical Area containing a single core with a population of 2.5 million or more may be subdivided to form smaller groupings of counties referred to as Metropolitan Divisions.
- In California, there are four Metropolitan Divisions that combine into two MSA, one in Southern California and the other in the Bay Area. The EDD will publish data at the Metropolitan Division level to maintain the same geographic configuration for these two MSA that is currently published. Data for the two MSA will be published at the BLS Web site. The MSA and their Metropolitan Divisions are:
- Micropolitan Statistical Areas – a new set of statistical areas - have at least one urban cluster of at least 10,000 but less than 50,000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties. Defined as one or more contiguous counties. Data for these areas will be identified for the counties rather than for the Micropolitan Statistical Area.
- Combined Statistical Areas (CSA) - adjacent Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas, in various combinations, may become the components of a new set of areas called Combined Statistical Areas, if specified criteria are met. The EDD produces data for the MSA components of the CSA, not the CSA itself.
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana MSA
Los-Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD
(Los Angeles County)
Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine MD
(Orange County)
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont MSA
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD
(Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties)
Oakland-Fremont-Hayward MD
(Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)
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Bishop Micro. SA (Inyo County)
Clearlake Micro. SA (Lake County)
Crescent City Micro. SA (Del Norte County)
Eureka-Arcata-Fortuna Micro. SA (Humboldt County)
Phoenix Lake-Cedar Ridge Micro. SA (Tuolumne County)
Red Bluff Micro. SA (Tehama County)
Truckee-Grass Valley Micro. SA (Nevada County)
Ukiah Micro. SA (Mendocino County)
1990 Metropolitan Area definitions
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