New York metropolitan area contains the administrative territorial entity Newark
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget utilizes two definitions of the urbanized area: the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and the combined statistical area (CSA). The MSA definition is titled the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and includes a population of 20.3 million people by 2017 Census estimates, roughly 1 in 16 Americans and nearly 7 million more than the second-place Los Angeles metropolitan area in the United States. The MSA is further subdivided into four metropolitan divisions. The 23-county MSA includes 10 counties in New York State (coextensive with the five boroughs of New York, the two remaining counties of Long Island, and three counties in the Lower Hudson Valley); 12 counties in Northern and Central New Jersey; and one county in northeastern Pennsylvania. The largest urbanized area in the United States is at the heart of the metropolitan area, the New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT Urbanized Area (which had a land area of 3,450 square miles in 2010 according to the 2010 census). The New York state portion of the metropolitan area (the Five Boroughs, the lower Hudson Valley, and Long Island) accounts for over 65 percent of the state's population.
New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA Metropolitan Statistical Area (19,043,386)Communities
Main cities and towns
The following is a list of "principal cities" and their respective population estimates from the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau publication. Principal cities are generally those where there is a greater number of jobs than employed residents.
New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island MSA
New York City: 8,175,133
Hempstead, New York: 759,757
Brookhaven, New York: 486,040
Islip, New York: 335,543
Oyster Bay, New York: 293,214
Newark, New Jersey: 277,140
Jersey City, New Jersey: 247,597
North Hempstead, New York: 226,322
Babylon, New York: 213,603
Huntington, New York: 203,264
Yonkers, New York: 195,976
Paterson, New Jersey: 146,199
Elizabeth, New Jersey: 128,640
Ramapo, New York: 126,595
Smithtown, New York: 117,801
Edison, New Jersey: 99,967
Woodbridge Township, New Jersey: 99,265
New Rochelle, New York: 77,062
Mount Vernon, New York: 67,292
White Plains, New York: 56,853
Passaic, New Jersey: 72,500
Union, New Jersey: 56,642
Wayne, New Jersey: 54,717
Trenton–Princeton MSA
Trenton, New Jersey: 84,913
Princeton, New Jersey: 28,572
Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury MSA
Bridgeport, Connecticut: 144,229
Stamford, Connecticut: 122,643
Norwalk, Connecticut: 85,603
Danbury, Connecticut: 80,893
Stratford, Connecticut: 51,384
New Haven–Milford MSA
New Haven, Connecticut: 129,779
Waterbury, Connecticut: 109,272
Milford, Connecticut: 51,271
Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown MSA
Poughkeepsie, New York: 32,736
Newburgh, New York: 28,866
Middletown, New York: 28,086
Kingston MSA
Kingston, New York: 23,893
Torrington Micropolitan Area
Torrington, Connecticut: 36,383
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