At some point (I think in the mid to early 90's) they included San Jose and San Francisco in the same metro and they added some other areas too because that area is relatively dense. I think they way they did the metro area is what is considered the CSA or urban area today. Anyways, the metro population because of the density should be like 8 million. Basically the Chicago of the west.
I agree it’s weird to not put them together. If you live in Menlo Park, you’re counted here as “San Francisco” even if you work in Palo Alto, which is counted here as “San Jose.” Oakland and SF and San Jose are too close together to separate them.
They have to be economically linked to be one metro area. For Example: The vast majority of residents in Tarrant County (Fort Worth) commute into Dallas County for work.
Imagine how cool it would have been to connect close metropolitan areas with high speed rail. I'd definitely buy a ticket if it weren't for cost overruns.
Brightline East in a nutshell. Soon Miami and Orlando will be connected by high-speed rail. With plans to proceed to Tampa. Connecting the 3 largest metropolitan areas of Florida with each other.
They’ve been talking about a maglev train from DC to Baltimore for years. Just issues with not wanting to destroy the environment. If they could figure out a way to not disrupt wildlife.. it would connect DC/Baltimore/Philly/NYC/Boston.
I had no clue that 90% + of the U.S. largest cities has a major body of water (river, lake, ocean) in their city limits. Guess just never thought about it.
@@KDYMarkBlock971 Even this day our inland waterways give us a huge advantage. We have the best setup in the world in this space and it is still orders of magnitude cheaper even with modern transport tech.
San Antonio metro should break the top 20 within the next decade. With adjacent metro Austin which is just minutes away the region should rank in the top 10 with 5 million people.
@@user-hi8iz to become one CSA as by the census, the commuter shares between metro areas need to be 15%. The suburban cities in between(New Braunfels and San Marcos as the anchors of Comal and Hays Counties) will determine that future which is is quickly growing. It's still.a long way from now. At least 20 years out.
Minutes away? Even without traffic that is a 45 mile drive (from Slaughter exit in South Austin to edge of San Antonio), and like 80 miles center to center. Factor in the legendary traffic in each city and well, I guess 11,692 minutes is still “just minutes.” But with Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, and New Braunfels in between and all growing, yeah one day we will see the “San Austin Metropolitan Sprawl.”
He used 2019 numbers and now in 2022 I'm pretty sure both San Antonio and Austin have grown significantly. Same for Houston and Dallas/FW although I am not sure those rankings would change any since they are already in the Top 5. But guessing San Antonio as already higher on the list.
A lot of US cities have big metros but small populations, for example the twin cities and atlanta both have metros over 3 million but the actual city limits of atlanta, minneapolis, and st. paul only have 3-400,000
Minneapolis-St. Paul is also the same metro area. It’s surely no coincidence that the population number is exactly the same. Check San Fran and Oakland as well. And Dallas Fort Worth.
I'll give you credit for showing Washington, D.C.'s real downton skyline, instead of the Capitol building, Washington Monument etc. that every other image centers on.
Yes true. If DC had a skyline (closest thing is Rosslyn in No Va.) Notice tho that the mall and monuments, museums, Wash Monument are not there? Google Earth drives me crazy with this. There are many cities that for some reason, parts are darkened, or there’s no 3D view. I’d love to look on some of the big skyscraper cities like Shanghai in 3D but, sorry.
Always wondered why Raleigh-Durham was split (they are closer to each other than either of the 3 or 4 duplex metros mentioned) and the actual metro area is much higher on the list…
It's for racial reasons. Durham historically has been a black city for many years while Raleigh is a white city. This is why both have never been linked together.
@@doctorx1924 No, this is not why, while durham has always been more diverse, both cities are still white by majority. Durham, especially during the 80s and 90s, was seen as a lower class city than Raleigh, they are also incredibly culturally different and have some minor rivalries. It's not racially motivated, it just wouldnt make any sense, they are too different.
The only way they can be considered together is if over 40% of the population from each city commute from one to the other. So you need 40% of people living in Raleigh to work in Durham, and vice-versa. Doesn't matter how close they are
Cities like NYC and Atlanta have a lot in their CSA definition (it takes 3.5-4 hours to drive from one edge of the CSA to the other edge in both cities)
Interesting how you think some cities are much bigger than others, but a big chunk of them are relatively close. Population really starts jumping in the top 15.
Did you know if Orlando and Tampa/St. Pete merged with each other and annexing Lakeland/Winter Haven (Polk County) you get 6.58 million people. Passing Miami and approaching Houston in the process.
Same as if you merged Metro Boston with metro Hartford and Providence you’d have 6.72 million…and they are all about the same distance away from each other as Tampa to Lakeland.
Really stupid to do the "A" and "B". Just call it Dallas/Fort Worth or Tampa/St Pete. Several Metro Areas have more than one major city in them. What's even more ridiculous is you you did that with several cities, but not New York/Jersey City/Newark.
Riiiight. Because everybody sings about New York/Jersey City/Newark, New York/Jersey City/Newark, It's my kind of place. Make your own video, see if anybody watches it.
Too bad they’re going to run out of water in 20 years. Climate change is going to raise Hell with the Sun Belt pretty soon. That’s the problem with overbuilding in desert areas. Large scale sprawl is unsustainable in the long term.
This confuses me San Francisco San Jose and Oakland are all part of one metro area THE RANK IS BACKWARDS oakland bigger than sfo and San Jose yet having a population of 435k compared to 822k in San Francisco and 1.1 million in San Jose
#12 was divided to give perspective. The SF metro area includes SF, Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, over throughout San Mateo County and inland parts of Contra Costa and Alameda Counties.
They did.It is part of the Raleigh metro. Each and every town is not listed in metro area. It is akin to having issue that, for example, San Jose is not listed as San Jose-Santa Clara-Mountain View-Palo Alto-Sunnyvale. It is just San Jose. Sorry Durham was not specifically called out. Silly North Carolinians!
@@timothynelson8330 The US gov't names them, not Tar Heels. Durham is not in the US designated Raleigh metro area, but it is in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill COMBINED metro area. You can likely look these things up.
@@rippasix210 Yes. If you consider what’s considered the greater Los Angles metropolitan area from Riverside to OC to Ventura, the population is over 18 million
used to live in Chattanooga TN. went to Atlanta all the time. never really thought of it being that large of a city. if you're talking Metro area though it does make sense, you have like Marietta and stuff so makes sense I guess. just surprised me
Atlanta proper (city limits) is a little over 1 million people. The other 5+ million are in the suburbs which traditionally has always been part of the metro area. These rankings look similar to the CSA’s which is more accurate and encompassing of the real metro areas.
They did combine them lol. They just did it in a way to show both Minneapolis and St Paul skylines. Same with Tampa Bay/St Petersburg and San Francisco and Oakland.
This is not accurate, because really what you’re looking at are urban areas. For instance, San Jose is clearly part of the combined urban area of San Francisco and Oakland. And Cleveland is actually part of a larger combined urban area with Akron. These are just two examples.
This would be easier to just read on a list. There's no explanation or even any dialogue beyond the name of the city. Followed by a few seconds of needless music and erial footage of the area.
Exactly. If you read "news", they make it sound like it's a ghost town. I think just some areas of it have lost population. If it had kept going from where it was in the 50's it would be comparable to Chicago by now though.
That is in due to the fact while the city of Detroit itself continues to lose population, the suburbs of Detroit are still increasing slightly in population.
I live in NYC now. It’s amazingly fun. It is also quite hard to live here and takes years to fully settle down with a job you like and a good apartment and social circle. It’s worth it if you can put up with that.
CSAs tell the real story and change many of these cities up. Also in CSAs they put places like San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland, Boston/Providence and DC/Baltimore together giving San Francisco and DC around 10 million each and Boston over 8 million. Also like others saying Tampa/Orlando and San Antonio/Austin should be together to me then Cincinnati/Dayton should combine and hell maybe even Louisville/Lexington.
DC and Baltimore have to totally different metro areas, DC Metro does not operate in Baltimore, The only way you can get to Bmore from DC is by car or Amtrak, two totally different cultures
Largest metro areas in the US by difference: •Single state: Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles and Orange Counties only) •Bi-state: Greater Boston (notice that 2 southeastern counties of New Hampshire are part of the metro area) •Tri-state: Metropolitan New York City (Southeastern New York State, Northern New Jersey and Pike County PA only) •Quad state: Delaware Valley/Metropolitan Philadelphia (only quad state area in the US) (note that DC's area isn't quad state, but a tri-state area and DC itself is a fedarate and city, not a state) •Single county: San Diego County, CA (Metropolitan San Diego) •Bi-county: Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles and Orange Counties only) •Tri-county: Metropolitan Miami (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties only) •With two core cities: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex •With three core cities: Hampton Roads (ft. Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Newport News) •With the most counties: Metropolitan Atlanta (29 counties in Georgia form that metro area) Note: All metro areas in the US are based on counties.
NYC metro covers much of CT too, so four states, not three. Chicago metro would be largest with three different states as result, NYC #1 for four. Metro Philly not only four state
NY Metro includes Connecticut way more than it does PA. To include Pennsylvania in NYC Metro you have to stretch your imagination. Where, and how, is anything in PA considered even remotely the suburbs of NYC? That part of PA is all mountains and it's 80 miles from the city.
@@hyzercreek, Connecticut have 3 counties and each have different metro areas and are part of the CSA of NYC. The most populous and closest county in CT near NYC is Fairfield County, CT. You know, where Bridgeport, Danbury, and their suburbs are located. Fairfield County, CT is what I call Metropolitan Bridgeport and Danbury.
These numbers are not correct, sorry. For example, the population of San Francisco proper is about 875,000, not 4.5 million; that would be for the entire bays Area including San Jose, Oakland, etc. San Jose is larger than San Francisco or Oakland.
@@jpt7342 No they aren’t; the San Francisco numbers he quotes would have to include both Oakland and San Jose to get that number, and then he also lists Oakland and San Jose separately, with Oakland also having the wrong “metro” population number. The 1.99M number for San Jose is also a bit too high but at least it’s closer and not double-counting the whole Bay Area.
@@juangilberto1979 According to the Wikipedia page for metropolitan statistical areas, San Jose is counted separately from SF-Oakland. This is in accordance with the census bureau. The entire Bay Area is counted together for combined statistical areas and a total of 9.7 million.
DFW is way larger than Houston metro area more people combined. Houston ALONE is bigger than Dallas ALONE. That’s why the video showing metro areas 🤦🏻♂️
