Washington Metropolitan Area

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The Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, formally known as the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA, is a U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as of November 2004. It is also part of the larger Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. As of the 2007 Census Bureau estimate, the population of the area was estimated to be 5,306,565.[1]

Other federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security refer to part of the area as the National Capital Region.[2] The Virginia portion of the Metropolitan Area is known as Northern Virginia.

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[edit] Composition

Aerial Photo of Washington, DC Metropolitan Area
Aerial Photo of Washington, DC Metropolitan Area

The Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area includes the District of Columbia and parts of the states of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. It is divided into two metropolitan divisions:

  • the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Division, comprising the majority of the metropolitan area, and
  • the Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, MD Metropolitan Division, consisting of Montgomery and Frederick counties.

[edit] Political subdivisions

The area includes the following counties, districts, and independent cities:

[edit] District of Columbia

Map highlighting the metropolitan area
Map highlighting the metropolitan area

[edit] Maryland

The following counties are categorized as part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area:

Though associated with the Washington Metropolitan Area, the following counties are categorized as part of the Baltimore-Towson, MD Metropolitan Statistical Area:

Though associated with the Washington Metropolitan Area, the following county is categorized as part of the Lexington Park, MD Micropolitan Statistical Area:

[edit] Virginia

Counties

Independent cities:

[edit] West Virginia

[edit] Principal cities

The metropolitan area includes the following principal cities (not all of which are incorporated as cities):

[edit] Demographics

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The Washington DC metropolitan area has been a major magnet for international in-migration into the USA for the past several decades. It is also a magnet for internal migration (persons moving from one region of the USA to another).

While Washington is typically known for its black community, which is centered on the District and Prince George's county, international in-migration has been changing the face of the region. The 2010 Census will likely show that persons of post-1965 immigrant stock will outnumber native blacks in the region as a whole.

The racial composition of the area[3] and the scope of demographic change in the past generation:

2006

1980

  • White : 67.8%
  • Black : 26.0%
  • Asian : 2.5%
  • Hispanic : 2.8%
  • "Mixed and Other" : 0.9%


The 2010 Census will likely find that the Washington area has become majority-nonwhite, for the first time since the first half of the 1600s.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area Population Estimates Available
  2. ^ "National Capital Region - Office of National Capital Region Coordination". Department of Homeland Security (December 21, 2005). Retrieved on 2008-01-09.
  3. ^ http://census.gov/popest/counties/asrh/CC-EST2006-RACE6.html

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