I just watched a video that said new York city had a population of 8.8 million as of the 2020 census but had a metro population of over 26 million? I don’t really understand where they got that 26 million from. Another example, LA, had a population of around 3.8 million but a metro population of over 9 million. Where do they get those metro area figures from?
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i’m thinking it’s including folks that live in suburban areas and commute in to the city to work and get groceries and such. Houston Texas’s metro area is as near as makes no difference, 9500 square miles. and i give it only a few more years and it gets even bigger. including more towns to the east until it’s all the way to beaumont and then the louisiana border. houston is in construction of a ring road that encircles an area as big as dc to baltimore. [https://s.hdnux.com/photos/42/31/35/9017196/3/1200×0.jpg](https://s.hdnux.com/photos/42/31/35/9017196/3/1200×0.jpg) the blue bit is the texas state highway 99. the bit missing is where the road has yet to cross the ship channel. anyway, the actual metro area is far bigger than that. but that ring road makes commuting pretty easy. until you get into the 610 loop, the smallest loop. traffic just sucks inside of that area.
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