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Useful Web Tool on Woods & Poole Home Page
May 7, 2025
On the Home Page (www.woodsandpoole.com) is a useful web tool at the bottom of the page that enables you to find the names and FIPS codes of counties making up any metropolitan area in the U.S.
Type in the name or FIPS code of a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), Combined Statistical Area (CSA), Micropolitan Statistical Area (MICRO), or Metropolitan Division (MDIV) and a list of all the counties in the MSA, CSA, MDIV or MICRO will appear in a drop-down screen. If you type in any part of the name of a metropolitan area the full name will appear in a selectable drop down.
You can also enter a county name or FIPS code and see a list of all the metropolitan areas (MSA, CSA, MDIV and MICRO), if any, of which the county is a part.
The county definitions are from the 2024 Woods & Poole regional database and the metropolitan areas are as defined in the July 2023, Office of Management and Budget (OMB BULLETIN NO. 23-01), “Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Combined Statistical Areas, and Guidance on Uses of the Delineations of These Areas”, except for metros containing Connecticut planning regions.
There are 385 MSAs, 181 CSAs, 536 MICROs, and 37 MDIVs in the 2024 Woods & Poole database.
Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) are included in the Woods & Poole database. CBSAs are MSAs or MICROs, and CBSA is a collective term for both of these geographies. There are 921 CBSAs in the Woods & Poole database, based on the OMB 2023 definitions, including adjustment made for Connecticut CBSAs.
OMB 2023 metro areas that include one or more Connecticut planning region are not included in the 2024 Woods & Poole database. The following OMB July 2023 metro areas are not included (FIPS codes in parentheses): Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH CSA (148), New Haven-Hartford-Waterbury, CT CSA (405), New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA (408), Bridgeport-Stamford, Danbury, CT MSA (14860), Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT MSA (25540), New Haven, CT MSA (35300), Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT MSA (35980),Waterbury-Shelton, CT MSA (47930),Worcester, MA MSA (49340), Putnam, CT MICRO (39480), and Torrington, CT MICRO (45860). OMB 2020 (OMB BULLETIN NO. 20-01) metro areas that include one or more Connecticut legacy county are included in the 2024 Woods & Poole database. The following OMB March 2020 metro areas are included: Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA (148), New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA (408), Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT MSA (14860), Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT MSA (25540), New Haven-Milford, CT MSA (35300), Norwich-New London, CT MSA (35980),Worcester, MA-CT MSA (49340), and Torrington, CT MICRO (45860). All eight Connecticut legacy counties are part of one of the six OMB 2020 MSAs and MICROs included in the 2024 database so the entire state of Connecticut is covered in the 2024 database.