Populations of the fifty largest US MSAs in 1950,1960,1970, 1980,1990 and 2000

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Request for Question Clarification by actualwolf-ga on 13 Jul 2002 23:08 PDT

Yankel:

Perhaps we could quicker answer your question if you defnied what type
of MSA you are referring to.

Minerology Societies of America?  Muslim Student Associations?  

-actualwolf

While actualwolf makes a good point by noting that "MSA" stands for
many things, I feel pretty confident that you are talking about
Metropolitan Statistical Areas, since you refer to populations and to
the years of the decennial United States Census.

The data for 2000 is on the web site of the U.S. Census Bureau.  It is
a table of all 280 metropolitan areas:

"Census 2000 PHC- T- 3. Ranking Tables for Metropolitan Areas: 1990
and 2000
Table 3: Metropolitan Areas Ranked by Population: 2000" (Apr. 2, 2001)
U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t3/tab03.pdf 

The data for 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960, and 1950 is contained on the web
site of Demographia, which is published by a demographic consultancy. 
This chart ranks the population of every metropolitan area for each of
these years (in the second through sixth tables), plus 1998 (which is
the first table) and 1940, 1930, 1920, 1910, and 1900 (which are the
last five tables):

"US Metropolitan Areas: Population From 1900
1998 Geographical Definitions"
Demographia (an undertaking of Wendell Cox Consultancy)
http://www.demographia.com/db-usmetfr1900.pdf 

Lastly, though you might not need it, here are the definitions of
metropolitan areas from the Census Bureau:

"About Metropolitan Areas"
U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/aboutmetro.html

- justaskscott-ga


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