Metropolitan Area Revisions Based on Census 2000

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Metropolitan Area RevisionsBased on Census 2000

• Ron Parker
• Chief, Labor Market Information
• NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
• Division of Labor Market and Demographic Research
• Telephone [phone]
• Email rparker_at_dol.state.nj.us
• SETC Conference
• Atlantic City
• December 14, 2004

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Background

• The United States Office of Management and Budget
  (OMB) mandates that all federal agencies speak a
  common language.
• Nationally consistent definitions for
  collecting, tabulating, and
• publishing Federal Statistics
  
• There are updates to metropolitan areas following
  each US Census.
• During the 1990s Federal Agencies and workgroups
  developed revised criteria for defining areas
  after the Census 2000.
• New area definitions are being implemented in
  2005.

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Key Terms for New Area Definitions

• Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
• Metropolitan Statistical Divisions.
• Micropolitan Statistical Areas.
• Combined Statistical Areas.

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• Metropolitan Statistical Areas
• Areas that have at least one urbanized area of
  50,000 or more population, plus adjacent
  territory that has a high degree of social and
  economic integration with the core as measured by
  commuting ties.

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• Metropolitan Statistical Divisions
• A Metropolitan Statistical Area containing a
  single core with a population of 2.5 million or
  more may be subdivided to form smaller groupings
  of counties, referred to as Metropolitan
  Divisions.

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• Micropolitan Statistical Areas
• A new set of statistical areas that have at
  least one urban cluster with a population between
  10,000 and 50,000, plus adjacent territory that
  has a high degree of social and economic
  integration with the core as measured by
  commuting ties.

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• Combined Statistical Areas
• A new set of statistical areas that may comprise
  any combination of metropolitan statistical
  areas and micropolitan areas (i.e. two or more
  metropolitan statistical areas, a metropolitan
  statistical area and a micropolitan statistical
  area, two or more micropolitan statistical areas,
  or multiple metropolitan and micropolitan
  statistical areas).

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New Jersey Geography Changesto Metropolitan Areas

• New Jerseys geography has changed significantly
  as a
• result of the 2003 update to statistical areas as
  defined
• by the OMB standards following the 2000 Census.
• The updated list for New Jersey added MSAs, while
  
• revising the definitions of some existing MSAs.

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2000 Based Metropolitan Statistical
Areas/Divisions in New Jersey
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• Intrastate MSA
• Atlantic City
• Ocean City
• Trenton - Ewing
• Vineland - Millville - Bridgeton
• Interstate MSA
• Allentown Bethlehem
• Easton NJ

• Counties In New Jersey
• Atlantic
• Cape May
• Mercer
• Cumberland
• Warren

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• Metropolitan Divisions
• Camden
• Edison
• Newark Union NJ PA 1)
• New York Wayne White Plains, NY-NJ
• Wilmington, DE MD NJ

• Counties In New Jersey
• Burlington, Camden, Gloucester
• Middlesex, Monmouth,
• Ocean, Somerset
• Essex, Hunterdon, Morris,
• Sussex, Union
• Bergen Hudson Passaic
• Salem County

This division is part of the interstate
New York Northern NJ Long Island, NY-NJ-PA
MSA. This division is part of the
Philadelphia Camden Wilmington, PA - NJ - DE
- MD MSA. 1) Division includes Pike County
Pennsylvania
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• Combined Statistical Areas
• New York - Northern New Jersey Long Island, NY
  - NJ PA and Trenton Ewing, NJ Metropolitan
  Statistical Areas are part of the new New York
  Newark Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined
  Statistical Area.
• Philadelphia Camden Wilmington, PA NJ DE
  MD and Vineland Millville Bridgeton NJ
  Metropolitan Statistical Areas are part of the
  new Philadelphia Camden Vineland, PA NJ
  DE MD Combined Statistical Area

• Counties In New Jersey
• Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex,
  Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset,
  Sussex, Union, Mercer
• Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem,
  Cumberland

Micropolitan Statistical Areas New Jersey
has no Micropolitan Statistical Areas
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Publication Plans

• The Current Employment Statistics program will
  develop establishment-based nonfarm wage and
  salary employment by industry estimates each
  month for all intrastate MSAs, and divisions
  which are part of interstate MSAs. Historical
  estimates will be developed back to 1990.
• Estimates also will be developed for four special
  labor areas (Hudson, Bergen/Passaic, Salem and
  Warren) which are part of divisions. These labor
  areas will be in addition to the estimates
  developed in cooperation with BLS.

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• - The Local Area Unemployment Statistics program
  will develop residence-based labor force, total
  employment and unemployment estimates for all
  MSAs, metropolitan divisions and all counties.
  Historical estimates will be developed back to
  1990.

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• More detailed information on area definitions
• and concepts can be located at
• http//www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm
• Note - These materials include information
  provided
• by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.