The

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currently has 19 statistical areas that have been delineated by the

Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, pol ...

(OMB). On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated four

combined statistical area Combined statistical area (CSA) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (µSA) across the 50 US states and the territory of Puerto Ric ...

s, 11

metropolitan statistical area In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. Such regions are neither legally incorporated as a city or tow ...

s, and four micropolitan statistical areas in Virginia. __TOC__

Statistical areas

The

(OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the

and

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. These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the

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, 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 A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

or counties (or county-equivalents) associated with at least one core 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." The OMB further divides core-based statistical areas into

s (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." The OMB defines a

(CSA) as "a geographic entity consisting of two or more adjacent core-based statistical areas with employment interchange measures of at least 15%." The

primary statistical area The United States federal government defines and delineates the nation's metropolitan areas for statistical purposes, using a set of standard statistical area definitions. the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defined and delineated 39 ...

s (PSAs) include all

s and any core-based statistical area that is not a constituent of a combined statistical area.

Table

The table below describes the 19 United States statistical areas, 95 counties, and 38 independent cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia with the following information: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. #The

(CSA) as designated by the OMB. #The CSA population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates. #The core based statistical area (CBSA) as designated by the OMB. #The CBSA population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates #The

name #The county population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates #The Metropolitan Division name, if applicable #The Metropolitan Division population according to 2019 US Census Bureau population estimates

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Office of Management and BudgetUnited States Census Bureau
{{DEFAULTSORT:Virginia Statistical Areas United States statistical areas Statistical Areas Of Virginia Statistical Areas Of Virginia

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