Editing Micropolitan statistical area (section)

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'''United States micropolitan statistical areas''' ('''μSA''', where the initial Greek letter [[Mu (letter)|mu]] represents "[[micro-]]"), as defined by the [[Office of Management and Budget]] (OMB), are labor market and statistical areas in the [[United States]] centered on an urban cluster (urban area) with a population of at least 10,000 but fewer than 50,000 people.<ref name="census.gov">[https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/bulletins/b10-02.pdf OMB BULLETIN NO. 10-02]</ref> The micropolitan area designation was created in 2003.  Like the better-known [[metropolitan statistical area]]s, a micropolitan area is a [[geographic]] entity used for [[statistical]] purposes based on [[List of United States counties and county equivalents|counties and county equivalents]].<ref name="census.gov"/> On July 21, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget released revised delineations of the various CBSAs in the United States, which recognized 542 micropolitan areas in the United States, four of which are in [[Puerto Rico]].<ref>{{cite press release|title=Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Combined Statistical Areas, and Guidance on Uses of the Delineations of These Areas|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/OMB-Bulletin-23-01.pdf|author=[[Executive Office of the President of the United States|Executive Office of the President]]|date=July 21, 2023|access-date=July 21, 2023}}</ref>

The term "micropolitan" gained currency in the 1990s to describe growing population centers in the United States that are removed from larger cities, in some cases by 100 miles (160&nbsp;km) or more.

Micropolitan cities do not have the economic or political importance of large cities, but are nevertheless significant centers of population and production, drawing workers and shoppers from a wide local area. Because the designation is based on the core urban cluster's population and not on that of the whole area, some micropolitan areas are much larger than some metropolitan areas. For example, the [[Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area]] had a 2010 census population of 154,908. That would put its total population ahead of roughly 100 individual locations classified as a metropolitan statistical area in 2010. The largest of the areas, around [[Claremont, New Hampshire|Claremont]] and [[Lebanon, New Hampshire]], had a population in excess of 218,000 in 2010; Claremont's population was only 13,355 in the [[2010 United States census|2010 U.S. census]],<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US3312900 |title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Claremont city, New Hampshire |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder |access-date=August 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213082822/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US3312900 |archive-date=February 13, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and Lebanon's population was only 13,151.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US3341300 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213035728/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US3341300 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 13, 2020 |title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Lebanon city, New Hampshire |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder |access-date=August 30, 2017}}</ref>

[[File:CBSA WallMap Jul2023.pdf|thumb|500x500px|An enlargeable map of the 935 [[core-based statistical area]]s (CBSAs) of the [[United States]] and [[Puerto Rico]] as of 2023; the 542 μSAs are shown in <span style="color:#609f8f;">light green</span>.<ref name="Revision 2023"/>]]