Metro Area Classification System Changing

An overhaul of the widely-recognized metropolitan classification system by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will refashion the way research is conducted and federal dollars are spent. The new system, designed to capture 21st-century settlement patterns, alters the names, types, and boundaries for metropolitan areas and creates new "micropolitan" areas.

Click here to read an interesting Brookings Institute report on this important issue.