Metropolitan statistical area
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Oct 20, 2026
Matt GastallHOST
So the city, right, is very much working for balanced budgets as best as it can and to shore up its fiscal profile.
Matt GastallHOST
But then I would also say that, okay, when we step back, We have the nation's third largest MSA, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Matt GastallHOST
Debt services as a percentage of revenues are still 20%, which is starting to get high, but still manageable, particularly with the economic capacity as strong as it is with the city.
Matt GastallHOST
And to be fair, right, Chicago is considered a home rule unit of government by the state of Illinois.
Jon RobertsGUEST
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Henry CisnerosGUEST
California has more MSAs than Texas, 28. and among them for almost five of the top ten most populous cities in the country.
Henry CisnerosGUEST
Austin is going to continue to grow.
Henry CisnerosGUEST
It will not lose its capacity for innovation, creativity, intellectual activity around the University of Texas and the startups and the venture capital.
Neil WilliamsonGUEST
I mean, schools make up 50 to 60% of just about every locality's budget, uh, K12 schools.
Neil WilliamsonGUEST
But, um, what, what a- Slide that Hamilton, uh, uh, Lombard, uh, put together for the Virginia Housing Commission showed that of the three MSAs, which would be Richmond, Hampton Roads, and, uh, Northern Virginia metropolitan statistical areas, um, they...
Neil WilliamsonGUEST
The, the housing and school enrollment kind of were together until about 2011, and since that time, there's a huge disparity.
Neil WilliamsonGUEST
Housing starts, um, are, are...
Joe SoucherayHOST
D- Are you ...
Joe SoucherayHOST
Do you think the Minnesota Republican Party has, has, uh, not tended the Metro area well enough? Not, not paid enough attention to the Metro area? In fact, have they abandoned the Metro area?
Lisa DemuthGUEST
Uh, you know, when we used to have, uh, Republicans that were winning seats closer to the Metro area, I think there was still that representative form of government closer there.
Lisa DemuthGUEST
I have a unique, um ...
Lisa DemuthGUEST
My life story is a little bit ...
Lisa DemuthGUEST
Well, everybody's is unique because nobody [laughs] was the same, I guess.
Lisa DemuthGUEST
But, um, you know, I lived in, born in Greater Minnesota, but then moved to the Metro-
Joe SoucherayHOST
Mm-hmm
ZachHOST
Newark, yeah, okay.
ZachHOST
The MSA, the New York, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Jack, here you go, you ready? You lost two definitions of the metropolitan statistical area and the combined statistical area.
ZachHOST
The MSA definition is titled New York, Newark, Jersey City, comma, New York, New Jersey metropolitan statistical area.
ZachHOST
Yeah, Newark is in there.
ZachHOST
So maybe it's Newark, Jack.
Rod KhleifGUEST
They need to have an airport with one major carrier ideally.
Rod KhleifGUEST
And I like to see ideally an $80,000, I'm sorry, 80,000 person population or be feeding a big MSA, Metropolitan Statistical Area, like a Phoenix, a Tampa, a Denver, you know, a big area like that.
Rod KhleifGUEST
But those are some other factors.
Ryan MillerHOST
Brilliant.
Greg CohenHOST
You can choose metro areas.
Greg CohenHOST
That's what we're going to choose because a metro area is another way of saying MSAs, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Greg CohenHOST
And that's really where you want to focus on analyzing between markets.
Greg CohenHOST
A metro area like Jacksonville includes the economic drivers and population just outside the actual city limits of Jacksonville.
Greg CohenHOST
So to get the U.S., you just would select the United States from geography instead of the metro areas.
Greg CohenHOST
So that's all you do.
Greg CohenHOST
You have to download actually two different reports to get the U.S. and a separate report to get all the different MSAs out there.
Pablo GonzalezHOST
OK, now take us through what you see in these reports.