San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Area

Not to be confused with San Francisco Bay Area.

The San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Area, (SFBA CSA) also known as the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA, is the 6th most populous of 125 Combined Statistical Areas (CSA) as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget.[1] This census-defined area encompasses the better known nine-county San Francisco Bay Area as well as two other counties the Bay Area does not traditionally include.

The SFBA CSA is entirely within Northern California and is composed of 11 counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma. This definition is larger than the popular local definition of the San Francisco Bay Area which consists of nine counties each touching the San Francisco Bay.[2][3] The popular designation does not include San Benito or Santa Cruz counties.

The SFBA CSA has a population of more than 7.46 million as determined in the 2010 census,[4][5] up from about 7 million in 2002.[6] In the U.S., the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland CSA has the second highest educational attainment in both bachelor's and master's degree, and the second highest median household income after Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia.[7][8] The Bay Area contains the two U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) that have the highest per capita number of Forbes 400 millionaires[9]

The SFBA CSA has six component MSA's:[10]

The 11th-most populous MSA in the U.S. is San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, and the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA is the 31st-most populous.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Census Population". United States Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/popest/metro/tables/2009/CBSA-EST2009-02.xls. 
  2. ^ "San Francisco Bay Area Vision Project". Focus. http://www.bayareavision.org/bayarea/index.html. 
  3. ^ "The Association of Bay Area Governments". Association of Bay Area Governments. http://www.abag.ca.gov/. 
  4. ^ "Population and Housing Occupancy Status: 2010 - United States -- Combined Statistical Area; and for Puerto Rico". United States Census Bureau. 2010. http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_NSRD_GCTPL2.US41PR&prodType=table. Retrieved 2011-04-23. 
  5. ^ "Table 3A: Total Population by Race and Hispanic or Latino". California Department of Finance. April 1, 2010. http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/state_census_data_center/census_2010/documents/2010Census_Table3A_RedistrictingFile.xls. Retrieved July 25, 2011. 
  6. ^ Maxwell, Nan L. (2006). The working life: the labor market for workers in low-skilled jobs. W.E. Upjohn Institute. p. 30. ISBN 0880992972. http://books.google.com/books?id=3cZO0cTOOTMC&pg=PA30. 
  7. ^ Drew, Jeff (September 22, 2009). "Raleigh-Durham area ranks third in U.S. for college degrees". American City Business Journals, Inc.. http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/09/21/daily23.html?ana=tt3245. 
  8. ^ "CSA Median household income". Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore. http://www.greaterbaltimore.org/CSA-Median-household-income.aspx. 
  9. ^ "America's Greediest Cities - Forbes.com". Forbes. December 3, 2007. http://www.forbes.com/2007/11/30/greediest-cities-billionaires-forbeslife-cx_ee_1203greed.html. Retrieved August 27, 2011. 
  10. ^ "Combined Statistical Areas and component Core Based Statistical Areas". United States Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/population/www/metroareas/lists/2008/List6.txt. 
  11. ^ "Population and Housing Occupancy Status: 2010 - United States -- Metropolitan Statistical Area; and for Puerto Rico more information 2010 Census National Summary File of Redistricting Data". 2010 United States Census. United States Census Bureau, Population Division. April 14, 2011. http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_NSRD_GCTPL2.US24PR&prodType=table. Retrieved April 14, 2011. 
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