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Tri-cities: Pinehurst, Southern Pines and Aberdeen was voted by economic research firm POLICOM as North Carolina's #1 micropolitan for the 6th year ....
Niles, Benton Harbor, city of St. Joseph and Berrien County business and government leaders are lobbying to preserve their urban character in the federal governmentâs eyes. They want the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, which is part of the White House, to continue classifying the county as the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, rather than changing it to a âmicropolitanâ statistical area, as a federal committee has proposed for 144 areas around the country. The change would affect areas whose core cities have fewer than 100,000 residents, instead of the current 50,000 population threshold. Neither Niles (11,149 estimate in 2019) nor Benton Harbor (9,741) has 50,000 people within their city limits. But Berrien County has been classified as a metropolitan statistical area because the Census Bureau has determined that more than 50,000 people live in âurbanized areas,â based on their population density, and the county has a to ....
Mar. 11—Dalton, Georgia may be America's carpet capital and Cleveland, Tennessee one of the most improved economic performing U.S. cities, but the two towns could soon lose their status as metropolitan areas. Two cities in the Chattanooga region are among 144 across the country about to be downgraded to micropolitan areas under a new definition proposed by the federal government. The change . ....
City opposes federal proposal to downgrade key status Jonesboro could downgrade to micropolitan By Monae Stevens | March 8, 2021 at 7:13 PM CST - Updated March 9 at 6:03 AM JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - The federal government is proposing to Mayor Harold Copenhaver and Jonesboro Unlimited President Mark Young say they see no benefit to Jonesboro losing this key status. “It’s going to adversely affect students coming to our city,” Copenhaver said. “It’s going to adversely affect individuals on a personal level.” He said Jonesboro’s metropolitan area status has been beneficial by helping the city qualify for grants that are not accessible to smaller towns. ....