Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area

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The Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area is a metropolitan area comprised of the cities of Omaha, Nebraska, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and surrounding areas. The metropolitan area, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget, consists of eight counties – five in Nebraska and three in Iowa. The area is locally referred to as “The Metro Area”, “Metro”, or simply “Omaha”. Three of the counties have large urban areas; the other five counties consist primarily of rural communities, most of which have populations of 1,000 or less. The Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area has a population of 813,170 (2005 estimate).

Contents

1 Historical definitions and populations
2 Counties in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area

2.1 Nebraska
2.2 Iowa

3 Cities in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area

3.1 Primary cities
3.2 Cities of 10,000 people or more
3.3 Cities of 5,000 to 10,000 people
3.4 Cities of 1,000 to 5,000 people
3.5 Cities and villages with fewer than 1,000 people
3.6 Census-designated places
3.7 Former cities and villages annexed by Omaha

4 Notes
5 External link

Historical definitions and populations

Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area Population by decade
1950 - 366,395 1960 - 457,873 1970 - 540,142 1980 - 585,122¹ 1990 - 618,262² 2000 - 767,041³ 2005 - 813,170 (est.)

Standards for metropolitan areas were created in 1949; the first census which had metropolitan area data was the 1950 census. At that time, the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area was comprised of three counties: Douglas and Sarpy in Nebraska, and Pottawattamie in Iowa. No additional counties were added to the metropolitan area until 1983, when Washington County, Nebraska was added. Cass County, Nebraska was added in 1993; Saunders County in Nebraska and Harrison and Mills counties in Iowa became part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area in 2003.

The 2003 revision to metropolitan area definitions was accompanied by the creation of micropolitan areas and Combined Statistical Areas. Fremont, in Dodge County, Nebraska, was designated a micropolitan area. The Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont Combined Statistical Area has a population of 849,248 (2005 estimate).

Counties in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area

Nebraska

Iowa

Cities in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area

Primary cities

Omaha – 409,416 inhabitants (2004 estimate)
Council Bluffs – 59,347 inhabitants (2004 estimate)

Cities of 10,000 people or more

Cities of 5,000 to 10,000 people

Cities of 1,000 to 5,000 people

Cities and villages with fewer than 1,000 people

Census-designated places

Former cities and villages annexed by Omaha

Benson
Dundee
Elkhorn *Contested as of 2006.
Florence
Millard
South Omaha

Notes

1983 metropolitan area definition applied to 1980 census data.
1993 metropolitan area definition applied to 1990 census data.
2003 metropolitan area definition applied to 2000 census data.

External link

[Population for Iowa metropolitan areas and components, 1950 – 2000]

	State of Nebraska
State capital	Lincoln
Regions	Omaha metropolitian area \| Panhandle \| Pine Ridge \| Rainwater Basin \| Sand Hills \| Wildcat Hills
Largest cities	Alliance \| Beatrice \| Bellevue \| Columbus \| Fremont \| Gering \| Grand Island \| Hastings \| Kearney \| La Vista \| Lexington \| Lincoln \| McCook \| Norfolk \| North Platte \| Omaha \| Papillion \| Scottsbluff \| South Sioux City \| York
Counties	Adams \| Antelope \| Arthur \| Banner \| Blaine \| Boone \| Box Butte \| Boyd \| Brown \| Buffalo \| Burt \| Butler \| Cass \| Cedar \| Chase \| Cherry \| Cheyenne \| Clay \| Colfax \| Cuming \| Custer \| Dakota \| Dawes \| Dawson \| Deuel \| Dixon \| Dodge \| Douglas \| Dundy \| Fillmore \| Franklin \| Frontier \| Furnas \| Gage \| Garden \| Garfield \| Gosper \| Grant \| Greeley \| Hall \| Hamilton \| Harlan \| Hayes \| Hitchcock \| Holt \| Hooker \| Howard \| Jefferson \| Johnson \| Kearney \| Keith \| Keya Paha \| Kimball \| Knox \| Lancaster \| Lincoln \| Logan \| Loup \| Madison \| McPherson \| Merrick \| Morrill \| Nance \| Nemaha \| Nuckolls \| Otoe \| Pawnee \| Perkins \| Phelps \| Pierce \| Platte \| Polk \| Red Willow \| Richardson \| Rock \| Saline \| Sarpy \| Saunders \| Scotts Bluff \| Seward \| Sheridan \| Sherman \| Sioux \| Stanton \| Thayer \| Thomas \| Thurston \| Valley \| Washington \| Wayne \| Webster \| Wheeler \| York

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Counties
	State of Iowa
	Regions
	East-Central Iowa \| Eastern Iowa \| Great River Road \| Iowa Great Lakes \| Loess Hills \| Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area \| Quad Cities \| Siouxland
Largest cities
Ames \| Ankeny \| Bettendorf \| Burlington \| Cedar Falls \| Cedar Rapids \| Clinton \| Council Bluffs \| Davenport \| Des Moines \| Dubuque \| Fort Dodge \| Iowa City \| Marion \| Marshalltown \| Mason City \| Muscatine \| Ottumwa \| Sioux City \| Urbandale \| Waterloo \| West Des Moines
Adair \| Adams \| Allamakee \| Appanoose \| Audubon \| Benton \| Black Hawk \| Boone \| Bremer \| Buchanan \| Buena Vista \| Butler \| Calhoun \| Carroll \| Cass \| Cedar \| Cerro Gordo \| Cherokee \| Chickasaw \| Clarke \| Clay \| Clayton \| Clinton \| Crawford \| Dallas \| Davis \| Decatur \| Delaware \| Des Moines \| Dickinson \| Dubuque \| Emmet \| Fayette \| Floyd \| Franklin \| Fremont \| Greene \| Grundy \| Guthrie \| Hamilton \| Hancock \| Hardin \| Harrison \| Henry \| Howard \| Humboldt \| Ida \| Iowa \| Jackson \| Jasper \| Jefferson \| Johnson \| Jones \| Keokuk \| Kossuth \| Lee \| Linn \| Louisa \| Lucas \| Lyon \| Madison \| Mahaska \| Marion \| Marshall \| Mills \| Mitchell \| Monona \| Monroe \| Montgomery \| Muscatine \| O'Brien \| Osceola \| Page \| Palo Alto \| Plymouth \| Pocahontas \| Polk \| Pottawattamie \| Poweshiek \| Ringgold \| Sac \| Scott \| Shelby \| Sioux \| Story \| Tama \| Taylor \| Union \| Van Buren \| Wapello \| Warren \| Washington \| Wayne \| Webster \| Winnebago \| Winneshiek \| Woodbury \| Worth \| Wright