Delaware Valley metropolitan area

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City of Philadelphia
- Consolidated city-county -
Land area: 350 km²
Residents: 1,526,006 (2010)
Population density: 4,361 per km² (2010)
Philadelphia – Camden – Wilmington
- Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) -
Land area: 11,991 km²
Residents: 5,965,343 (2010)
Population density: 497 per km² (2010)
Counties in
Pennsylvania :		 Philadelphia, Montgomery , Bucks , Delaware , Chester
Counties in
New Jersey :		 Camden , Burlington , Gloucester , Salem

Delaware counties :		 New Castle
Counties in
Maryland :		 Cecil
Philadelphia – Camden – Wilmington
- Combined Statistical Area (CSA) -
Land area: 15,482 km²
Residents: 6,533,683 (2010)
Population density: 422 per km² (2010)
Counties in
Pennsylvania :		 Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, Chester, Berks
Counties in
New Jersey :		 Camden, Burlington, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland

Delaware counties :		 New Castle
Counties in
Maryland :		 Cecil

The Philadelphia – Camden – Wilmington (also Delaware Valley ) region is the metropolitan region around the American city ​​of Philadelphia on both sides of the mouth of the Delaware River . The region stretches from the southeast of the state of Pennsylvania over the south of New Jersey and northeastern Maryland to the north of Delaware . With 6.2 million inhabitants, it is the second largest metropolitan region on the east coast and the sixth largest in the entire country.

Definition and neighboring regions

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines the city of Philadelphia and ten of the surrounding counties in four states as the actual metropolitan area or Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) .

As an extension of this actual metropolitan area, two additional counties in New Jersey ( Cumberland County ) and Pennsylvania ( Berks County ) are added for the Combined Statistical Area (CSA) . The two counties are independent small metropolitan regions.

The Atlantic , which does not belong to the Delaware Valley region, and Cape May County are nevertheless very strongly integrated into the urban infrastructure. On the one hand, numerous commuters live in these two counties in the urban agglomeration, on the other hand, the regions on the nearby Atlantic coast are very much used as local recreation areas.

Already the New York metropolitan area is part of Mercer County with New Jersey's capital Trenton is a transition area between two immediately adjacent metropolitan areas. In addition to numerous commuters to New York, there are also many whose jobs are in the Delaware Valley region.

In the southeast, the region merges into the metropolitan area around the city of Baltimore in Maryland.

prehistory

Map of New Sweden

The region was settled by Susquehannock and Lenni Lenape before the arrival of the first whites . Beginning in 1638, the area became the core of the newly formed New Sweden , which in 1655 fell to Nieuw Nederland . England conquered the region in 1664.

The name Delaware is derived from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , the second governor of the Virginia colony .

structure

Counties
county
  		Pop.
( 2000 ) 		Pop.
( 2010 ) 		Change
  		Land area
in km² 		Inhabitants
per km²
Philadelphia  (PA) - City 1  - 1,517,550 1,526,006 0.6% 350 4,361
Montgomery County  (PA) 750.097 799.874 6.6% 1,251 639
Bucks County  (PA) 597,635 625.249 4.6% 1,573 397
Delaware County  (PA) 550.864 558.979 1.5% 477 1,172
Camden County  (NJ) 508.932 513,657 0.9% 576 892
New Castle County  (DE) 500,265 538.479 7.6% 1.104 488
Chester County  (PA) 433.501 498,886 15.1% 1,958 255
Burlington County  (NJ) 423.394 448.734 6.0% 2,084 215
Gloucester County  (NJ) 254.673 288.288 13.2% 841 343
Cecil County  (MD) 85,951 101.108 17.6% 902 112
Salem County  (NJ) 64,285 66,083 2.8% 875 76
Philadelphia  -  Camden  -  Wilmington -  MSA  -  5,687,147 5,965,343 4.9% 11,991 497
Berks County  (PA) 373,638 411,442 10.1% 2.224 185
Cumberland County  (NJ) 146.438 156,898 7.1% 1,267 124
Philadelphia  -  Camden  -  Wilmington -  CSA  -  6,207,223 6,533,683 5.3% 15,482 422

1 - Consolidated city-county , that is, the city and county are administratively and legally merged into one.

Municipalities and settlements

Philadelphia
Camden
Wilmington

The largest places in the entire CSA:

Core city

Places with more than 50,000 inhabitants

Places with more than 20,000 inhabitants

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Houston Business Journal , accessed August 10, 2011.
  2. ↑ US Census Bureau ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 10, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.census.gov
  3. ^ New Sweden. Retrieved August 10, 2011
  4. ↑ a b U.S. Census Bureau - 2000 Census.Retrieved August 10, 2011
  5. ↑ United States US Census Bureau - 2010 Census. Retrieved August 10, 2011

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