Urbanized Areas released

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by NCDave

Southbound,

This is a relationship table that shows relationships between urban areas and core based statisical areas (metropolitan and micropolitan staistical areas. It says that of the total population of 169,495 for the Gastonia urbanized area, 158,241 is within the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC Metro Area (mostly Gaston and a little piece in York County), 83 is in the Lincolnton, NC Micro Area (Lincoln County), and 11,171 is in the Shelby, NC Micro Area (Cleveland County).

Changes to core based statistical areas for this decade won't be announced until 2013.

That's what I thought until I saw that Charlotte had a claim on Hickory. So Charlotteb has had a claim on Hickory since 2003?

[urbancharlotte]

Originally Posted by NCDave

If you're defining politics very broadly, then "politics" may have played a part because urbanized areas that could potentially merge in with others argued against it when given the opportunity to comment on the proposed criteria.

My goodness Dave, that was a long post, but at least you finally got what I was saying from the start. IMO, UAs within the same MSA that touch each other should all be one UA. I don't care if it's called the "Charlotte/Concord/Gastonia/Rock Hill NC/SC" urbanized area. As long as it's defined as ONE UA; because it is just one large UA. 4 UA's within the same MSA just looks and smells like politics rather than good-honest statistics.

[Carlite]

There has to be a certain amount of cross-county commuting for the Census Bureau to put counties together into an MSA. I don't know the number, but one could dig it out if you were really interested. No classification system will be perfect.