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Del Tachi
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« on: January 02, 2014, 09:21:13 PM »


-MS-1 (Pretty certain the only urbanized population resides in the southern Memphis suburbs in DeSoto County).


The city of Tupelo counts as an urban area under your "50,000 definition".  Metro population is close to 140,000, making it the nation's 8th largest micropolitan statistical areas.

Tupelo has long been the economic engine of North Mississippi, not DeSoto County. 
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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2014, 10:30:35 PM »

The city of Tupelo counts as an urban area under your "50,000 definition".  Metro population is close to 140,000, making it the nation's 8th largest micropolitan statistical areas.

Tupelo has long been the economic engine of North Mississippi, not DeSoto County. 

The fact that Tupelo is in a micropolitan area, not a metropolitan area, means that Tupelo and all nearby urban areas are classified as urban clusters (2,500-49,999 population), not urbanized areas (50,000+ population).  The Tupelo urban cluster had a population of 40,995 in 2010.

Its certainly netted 5 people since 2010. 
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2014, 11:37:17 PM »

The city of Tupelo counts as an urban area under your "50,000 definition".  Metro population is close to 140,000, making it the nation's 8th largest micropolitan statistical areas.

Tupelo has long been the economic engine of North Mississippi, not DeSoto County.  

The fact that Tupelo is in a micropolitan area, not a metropolitan area, means that Tupelo and all nearby urban areas are classified as urban clusters (2,500-49,999 population), not urbanized areas (50,000+ population).  The Tupelo urban cluster had a population of 40,995 in 2010.

Its certainly netted 5 people since 2010.  

It (the Tupelo urban cluster) would have to had net 9,005 people to be considered an urbanized area.  I doubt the urban cluster grew by 20% in 2 years.

The urbanized area in MS-01 is Memphis' Mississippi suburbs and exurbs, which have a population of 128,310.


My bad completely, I read "49,995".  Whoops! 

Situations like this are a great example of the failings of some of the Census Bureau's definitions.  Tupelo fails to be an urban center even though it has a metro population in excess of 130,000 (the fourth largest in Mississippi) and has a higher population density than DeSoto County.  Any person driving down the highway would count Tupelo as more "urban" than Southaven or Olive Branch.     
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