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County Definitions

April 22, 2025

The county definitions and county-equivalent definitions used in the Woods & Poole database are defined by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA.)  In New England, counties were created by summing townships and creating county-equivalent areas.  Parishes in Louisiana, Boroughs in Alaska, and Independent Cities in Maryland, Missouri, and Nevada are called counties in the Woods & Poole database.  In some states, notably Virginia, counties exist with independent cities. In cases where boundaries between counties and independent cities (or counties and other counties) have changed since 1969, new county groups were created to maintain the consistency of the historical data.

A number of counties aggregated in previous editions of the Woods & Poole database have been disaggregated in the 2024 edition.  All of the historical data, 1969 to 2022, for all of the disaggregated counties are estimated.

Data and projections for the following counties are now in the Woods & Poole […]

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