Rhode Island statistical areas

The U.S. State of Rhode Island currently has two statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area.[1] All five counties of Rhode Island are a part of both the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area and the more extensive Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area.

Map of the five counties of Rhode Island.
An enlargeable map of the five counties of Rhode Island.[1]

Statistical areas

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico.[2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.

The OMB defines a core-based statistical area (commonly referred to as a CBSA) as "a statistical geographic entity consisting of the county or counties (or county-equivalents) associated with at least one core[lower-alpha 1] of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with the counties containing the core."[2] The OMB further divides core-based statistical areas into metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) that have "a population of at least 50,000" and micropolitan statistical areas (μSAs) that have "a population of at least 10,000, but less than 50,000."[2]

The OMB defines a combined statistical area (CSA) as "a geographic entity consisting of two or more adjacent core-based statistical areas with employment interchange measures[lower-alpha 2] of at least 15%."[2] The primary statistical areas (PSAs) include all combined statistical areas and any core-based statistical area that is not a constituent of a combined statistical area.

Table

The table below describes the two United States statistical areas and five counties of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations with the following information:[3]

  1. The combined statistical area (CSA) as designated by the OMB.[1]
  2. The CSA population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates.[4]
  3. The core based statistical area (CBSA)[2] as designated by the OMB.[1]
  4. The CBSA population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates [4]
  5. The county name
  6. The county population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates [4]
  7. The Metropolitan Division name, if applicable[1]
  8. The Metropolitan Division population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates [4]
The two United States statistical areas and five counties of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Combined Statistical Area 2019 Population Core Based Statistical Area 2019 Population County 2019 Population Metropolitan Division 2019 Population
Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA 8,287,710
1,059,361		 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH MSA 4,873,019 Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1,611,699 Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA MD 2,400,733
Essex County, Massachusetts 789,034
Suffolk County, Massachusetts 803,907 Boston, MA MD 2,031,884
Norfolk County, Massachusetts 706,775
Plymouth County, Massachusetts 521,202
Rockingham County, New Hampshire 309,769 Rockingham County-Strafford County, NH MD 440,402
Strafford County, New Hampshire 130,633
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA MSA 1,624,578
1,059,361		 Providence County, Rhode Island 638,931 none
Bristol County, Massachusetts 565,217
Kent County, Rhode Island 164,292
Washington County, Rhode Island 125,577
Newport County, Rhode Island 82,082
Bristol County, Rhode Island 48,479
Worcester, MA-CT MSA 947,404 Worcester County, Massachusetts 830,622
Windham County, Connecticut 116,782
Manchester-Nashua, NH MSA 417,025 Hillsborough County, New Hampshire 417,025
Barnstable Town, MA MSA 212,990 Barnstable County, Massachusetts 212,990
Concord, NH μSA 151,391 Merrimack County, New Hampshire 151,391
Laconia, NH μSA 61,303 Belknap County, New Hampshire 61,303
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 1,059,361

See also

Notes
  1. The OMB defines a core as "a densely settled concentration of population, comprising an Urban Area (of 10,000 or more population) delineated by the Census Bureau, around which a core-based statistical area is delineated."[2]
  2. The OMB defines the employment interchange measure as "the sum of the percentage of workers living in the smaller entity who work in the larger entity plus the percentage of employment in the smaller entity that is accounted for by workers who reside in the larger entity."[2]

References
  1. Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Combined Statistical Areas, and Guidance on Uses of the Delineations of These Areas (March 6, 2020). "0MB BULLETIN NO. 20-01" (PDF). Office of Management and Budget. Retrieved December 15, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. "2020 Standards for Delineating Core Based Statistical Areas". Office of Management and Budget. July 16, 2021. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
  3. An out-of-state area and its population are displayed in green. An area that extends into more than one state is displayed in teal. A teal population number over a black population number show the total population versus the in-state population.
  4. "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties in the United States: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. April 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

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