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Knoxville Hits One Million Population!


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Here is more on this for the Knoxville CSA. I find it interesting that the seven counties in the former MSA have more than 817,000 (2005). It's probable that it will be around 900,000 by next census. That whole area is growing unbelievably fast.

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/business/artic...5108494,00.html

http://web.knoxnews.com/images/business/1101million.jpg

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I think the point that a lot of people have missed in this thread is that metro areas and combined metro areas aren't based on proximity or land area or whatnot (remember that San Bernadino county in Southern California is a little less than half the size of Tennessee, but the entire county is part of one metro area...a lot of western cities have large sized metros due to the size of the counties). The metro definitions are based on commuting patterns.

"Why is (insert city/county here) not in the metro area???" Well, because not enough people commute between the two counties. The same goes for the question of "why is this podunk rural hick county 35 miles from town in the metro area?"

Maybe the census definitions aren't perfect, but they aren't playing favorites with cities.

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The Census Bureau seems to think so. Knoxville showed a Consolidated Metropolitan area estimated population of 993,761 on July 1, 2005 as compared to 980,924 a year earlier. Surely by now, the area has added the additional 7,000 people needed to cross that threshold.

The Knoxville MSA includes Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Sevier and Union Counties. The Consolidated statistical area includes Roane, Campbell, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson and Cocke Counties.

So when you are asked,

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