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Demographia City Sector Model Metropolitan Area Maps Demographia City Sector Model Metropolitan Area Maps Functional Classifications of Sectors in US Metropolitan Areas Functional Classifications Based on 2010 Census July 2014 CITY SECTOR MODEL METROPOLITAN AREA MAPS Table of Contents City Sector Model Summary 1 Structure of the City Sector Model 2 Major Metropolitan Area Maps Listing 3 Appendix 56 CITY SECTOR MODEL: SUMMARY Summary: The Demographia City Sector Model classifies the nearly 9,000 zip code tabulation areas (ZCTA's) in the 52 major metropolitan areas of the United States, using urban form, density and travel behavior characteristics and residence age. Major metropolitan areas have more than 1,000,000 residents. Classifications: There are four functional classifications, (1) the urban core, (2) earlier suburbs, (3) later suburbs and (4) exurbs (outside the urban area and all areas with fewer than 250 residents per square mile (97 per square kilometer). The urban cores have higher densities (7,500 per square mile or 2,896 per square kilometer), and substantially greater reliance on transit, walking and cycling (20 percent or more) than other parts of metropolitan areas. The urban core also includes all non-exurban ZCTA's with a median house construction date of 1945 or before (see page 2). Replicating the Pre-Auto Suburban City: The City Sector Model criteria produces geographies functionally similar to the urban cores that preceded the great automobile oriented suburbanization that developed after World War II. Exurban areas are beyond the built up urban areas. The suburban areas constitute the balance of the major metropolitan areas. Earlier suburbs include areas with a median house construction date before 1980. Later suburban areas have later median house construction dates. Additional Resources: Related articles and information are at http://www.newgeography.com/category/story-topics/city-sector-model. 1 Based on Zip Codes (ZCTA) and 2010 CITY SECTOR Census MODEL (US) URBAN CORE EARLIER LATER EXURBAN (Pre-Auto Urban SUBURBS SUBURBS (Auto Exurban) Core) (Auto (Auto -------------- -------------- Suburban: Suburban: Outside principal Not auto exurban Earlier) Later) urban area or population density 7,500 + Density & -------------- -------------- under 250 20%+Transit, Walk, Not auto exurban Not auto exurban (regardless of Bike Market Share Median house built Median house built median year house & other areas with 1946 to 1979 1980 & later built). median year house built before 1946 PHYSICAL CITY (URBAN AREA) -FUNCTIONAL CITY (METROPOLITAN AREA OR LABOR MARKET) 2 3 Atlanta, GA 4 Austin, TX SAN ANTONIO 5 Baltimore, MD PHILADELPHIA WASHINGTON 6 Birmingham, AL 7 Boston, MA-NH PROVIDENCE 8 Buffalo, NY ROCHESTER 9 Charlotte, NC-SC 10 Chicago, IL-IN-WI 11 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 12 Cleveland, OH c 13 Columbus. OH 14 Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 15 Denver, CO 16 Detroit, MI 17 Grand Rapids, MI 18 Hartford, CT 19 Houston, TX 20 Indianapolis, IN 21 Jacksonville, FL 22 Kansas City, MO-KS 23 Las Vegas, NV RIVERSIDE-SAN BERNARDINO 24 Los Angeles, CA RIVERSIDE-SAN BERNARDINO SAN DIEGO 25 Louisville, KY-IN 26 Memphis, TN-MS-AR 27 Miami, FL 28 Milwaukee, WI 29 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI 30 Nashville, TN 31 New Orleans, LA c 32 New York, NY-NJ-PA CORE (SEE APPENDIX FOR METROPOLITAN AREA) 33 Oklahoma City, OK 34 Orlando, FL 35 Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD c c c c NEW YORK c c BALTIMORE 36 Phoenix, AZ c 37 Pittsburgh, PA 38 Portland, OR-WA 39 Providence, RI-MA BOSTONc c c 40 Raleigh, NC 41 Richmond, VA WASHINGTON VIRGINIA BEACH- NORFOLK 42 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA CORE (SEE APPENDIX FOR METROPOLITAN AREA) LOS ANGELES MMSA continues east to AZ & NV c borders See Appendix for larger map SAN DIEGO 43 Rochester, NY BUFFALO 44 Sacramento, CA SAN FRANCISCO 45 Salt Lake City, UT c c c 46 San Antonio, TX c c AUSTIN c c c 47 San Diego, CA LOS ANGELES RIVERSIDE- SAN BERNARDINO c 48 San Francisco, CA c SACRAMENTO SAN JOSE 49 San Jose, CA SAN FRANCISCO 50 Seattle, WA 51 St. Louis. MO-IL 52 Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL c 53 Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC RICHMOND 54 Washington, DC-VA-MD-WV BALTIMORE RICHMOND 55 56 New York, NY-NJ-PA ENTIRE METROPOLITAN AREA c PHILADELPHIA 57 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA ENTIRE METROPOLITAN AREA LAS VEGAS c The Riverside- San Bernardino MMSA LOS is far larger than a ANGELES labor market, an artifact of US MSA definitions that use whole counties and the large size of the two component SAN DIEGO counties 58 .
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