New York metropolitan area

The metropolitan area of New York City, also called Greater New York or Greater New York City is defined by the U.S. Census as the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT Metropolitan Statistical Area based on broad social and economic integration, which is divided into four Metropolitan Divisions. The Census also defines a wider New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT Combined Statistical Area based more specifically on commuting patterns.

The total population of the New York Metropolitan Area is 21,199,865 (as of 2000). It is the single largest metropolitan area in America and has grown generally quickly, growing 9.4% since the 1990 census.

The metropolitan area includes New York City, most of northern New Jersey, nine counties in New York State, southwestern Connecticut, and a small part of Pennsylvania which is not in the New York City area itself. North Western New Jersy, New York State and PA are in an area known as the tri-state because the three states meet at that PA county. This is the only reason for PA to (sometimes) be included in a non-local, broader definiton of the NYC area, usually from those outside of the Tri-State (NY,NJ & CT) area.

The New York City Tri-State area is centered around New York City and includes those areas within a half to one hour commute. This is roughly the same as any city's metro are in any given state, but the east cost and NYC geography as well as it's enormous size makes NJ and CT a part of the NYC metro area with New York City as its main hub.

As with other metropolitan areas, the actual definition is nowhere near as exact.

Greater New York is actually based on two urban core : New York city and Newark (Hudson and Essex county, NJ). New York city's near suburbs are Long Island and Westchester, while Newark suburbs are Bergen, Passaic and Morris county. Surrounding these counties are the outer suburbs, or peripherical counties.

Populations of counties and cities within the metropolis

New York and Pennsylvania

• Dutchess County, New York — 280,150
• Long Island, NY — 2,753,913
  • Nassau County, New York — 1,334,544
  • Suffolk County, New York — 1,419,369
• New York, NY — 8,008,278
  • Bronx County, New York — 1,332,650
  • Kings County, New York — 2,465,326
  • New York County, New York — 1,537,195
  • Queens County, New York — 2,229,379
  • Richmond County, New York — 443,728
• Newburgh, NY-PA — 387,669
  • Orange County, New York — 341,367
  • Pike County, Pennsylvania — 46,302
• Putnam County, New York — 95,745
• Rockland County, New York — 286,753
• Westchester County, New York — 923,459

New Jersey

• Bergen-Passaic, NJ — 1,373,167
  • Bergen County, New Jersey — 884,118
  • Passaic County, New Jersey — 489,049
• Jersey City, NJ — 608,975
  • Hudson County, New Jersey — 608,975
• Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ — 1,169,641
  • Hunterdon County, New Jersey — 121,989
  • Middlesex County, New Jersey — 750,162
  • Somerset County, New Jersey — 297,490
• Monmouth-Ocean, NJ — 1,126,217
  • Monmouth County, New Jersey — 615,301
  • Ocean County, New Jersey — 510,916
• Newark, NJ — 2,032,989
  • Essex County, New Jersey — 793,633
  • Morris County, New Jersey — 470,212
  • Sussex County, New Jersey — 144,166
  • Union County, New Jersey — 522,541
  • Warren County, New Jersey — 102,437
• Trenton, NJ — 350,761
  • Mercer County, New Jersey — 350,761

Connecticut

• Bridgeport area, CT — 459,479
  • Fairfield County, Connecticut (part) — 345,708
    • Bridgeport — 139,529
    • Easton — 7,272
    • Fairfield — 57,340
    • Monroe — 19,247
    • Shelton — 38,101
    • Stratford — 49,976
    • Trumbull — 34,243
  • New Haven County, Connecticut (part) — 113,771
    • Ansonia — 18,554
    • Beacon Falls — 5,246
    • Derby — 12,391
    • Milford — 52,305
    • Oxford — 9,821
    • Seymour — 15,454
• Danbury area, CT — 217,980
  • Fairfield County, Connecticut (part) — 183,303
    • Bethel — 18,067
    • Brookfield — 15,664
    • Danbury — 74,848
    • New Fairfield — 13,953
    • Newtown — 25,031
    • Redding — 8,270
    • Ridgefield — 23,643
    • Sherman — 3,827
  • Litchfield County, Connecticut (part) — 34,677
    • Bridgewater — 1,824
    • New Milford — 27,121
    • Roxbury — 2,136
    • Washington — 3,596
• New Haven-Meriden, CT — 542,149
  • Middlesex County, Connecticut (part) — 19,112
    • Clinton — 13,094
    • Killingworth — 6,018
  • New Haven County, Connecticut (part) — 523,037
    • Bethany — 5,040
    • Branford — 28,683
    • Cheshire — 28,543
    • East Haven — 28,189
    • Guilford — 21,398
    • Hamden — 56,913
    • Madison — 17,858
    • Meriden — 58,244
    • New Haven — 123,626
    • North Branford — 13,906
    • North Haven — 23,035
    • Orange — 13,233
    • Wallingford — 43,026
    • West Haven — 52,360
    • Woodbridge — 8,983
• Stamford-Norwalk, CT — 353,556
  • Fairfield County, Connecticut (part) — 353,556
    • Darien — 19,607
    • Greenwich — 61,101
    • New Canaan — 19,395
    • Norwalk — 82,951
    • Stamford — 117,083
    • Weston — 10,037
    • Westport — 25,749
    • Wilton — 17,633
• Waterbury area, CT — 228,984
  • Litchfield County, Connecticut (part) — 41,784
    • Bethlehem — 3,422
    • Thomaston — 7,503
    • Watertown — 21,661
    • Woodbury — 9,198
  • New Haven County, Connecticut (part) — 187,200
    • Middlebury — 6,451
    • Naugatuck — 30,989
    • Prospect — 8,707
    • Southbury — 18,567
    • Waterbury — 107,271
    • Wolcott — 15,215

New York, NY PMSA

The New York, NY Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA) is comprised of the five boroughs of New York City, Long Island, and Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam Counties. It is smaller than the CMSA; it is only made up of the core city and immediately adjacent suburban counties. Its total population is 12,068,148.

• Long Island, NY — 2,753,913
  • Nassau County, New York — 1,334,544
  • Suffolk County, New York — 1,419,369
• New York City, NY — 8,008,278
  • Bronx County, New York — 1,332,650
  • Kings County, New York — 2,465,326
  • New York County, New York — 1,537,195
  • Queens County, New York — 2,229,379
  • Richmond County, New York — 443,728
• Rockland County, New York — 286,753
• Westchester County, New York — 923,459
• Putnam County, New York — 95,745

Source: [1], Table 1.

See also: United States metropolitan area