The Case of the Disappearing Metros
The federal government wants to reclassify smaller areas across America as “micropolitan,” and they re not happy about the idea. Are their worries justified?
July 6, 2021 •
Aerial View of downtown Cheyenne, Wyo. (Boomsma/Shutterstock) One day in 2023, if all goes according to plan, 144 metropolitan areas could be wiped off the map of the United States. It sounds like the conclusion of a bad horror movie, but it’s only a quirk of federal government policy.
For the past 70 years, a metro area has been a place with a core urban population of at least 50,000. Now the White House Office of Management and Budget has decided that 50,000 isn’t enough. It wants to raise the threshold to 100,000. Places that can’t meet that number will be too small to remain in existence as metros. They will be placed in a new category of “micropolitan areas.”
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