Metro Areas
- Metro Areas represents over 1,000 major metropolitan areas around the world, including top real estate markets. These areas incorporate satellite cities, towns, and rural areas that are socioeconomically linked to an urban core, typically with a population greater than 50,000 and a density of at least 1,000 people per square mile.
Coverage
- Australia
- Canada
- France
- Global
- Japan
- New Zealand
- United Kingdom
- United States
Product Family
- Boundaries
Usage
Use Metro Areas to:
- Identify the geographic extent of key metropolitan areas around the world
- Identify key opportunities for investment, site selection, and refine marketing and customer engagement
- Analyze national and local areas with similar attributes
- Leverage detailed descriptions of metropolitan areas for economic, cultural, and population concentrations more accurately than census designations
Details
- Over 565 key metro boundaries in the U.S. and Canada
- Records contain a unique and persistent object ID, primary name, object type code, subtype code, centroid coordinate, and area fields.
- Names table provides alternative names and languages
- Geographic attribution shows overlapping administrative geographies
Specifications
- Update Frequency
- Quarterly
- Coverage
- Global
- Unit of Sale
- Country
