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METAREA

Metropolitan area

Description
METAREA indicates the metropolitan area in which the deceased person was located, or if it was non-metropolitan. Metropolitan areas consist of contiguous counties of "metropolitan character" centered on a city of at least 50,000 population.

Availability
1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
CodeLabel
0000
Not in a metropolitan area
0160
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
0720
Baltimore, MD
1120
Boston, MA
1280
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY
1600
Chicago-Gary-Lake, IL
1680
Cleveland, OH
1840
Columbus, OH
2160
Detroit, MI
3480
Indianapolis, IN
3760
Kansas City, MO/KS
4520
Louisville, KY/IN
5080
Milwaukee, WI
5480
New Haven-Meriden, CT
5560
New Orleans, LA
5600
New York, NY-Northeastern NJ
6160
Philadelphia, PA/NJ
6280
Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley, PA
6480
Providence-Fall River-Pawtucket, MA/RI
6760
Richmond-Petersburg, VA
6840
Rochester, NY
7040
St. Louis, MO/IL
7360
San Francisco-Oakland-Vallejo, CA
7560
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA
8160
Syracuse, NY
8840
Washington, DC/MD/VA
9240
Worcester, MA