Largest City W/o Pro Team

[postcards]

@kunilou

Columbus has an NHL franchise.

Not last season!

[Little_Nemo]

Rochester, per the OP, is a miserable #52. How is it possible that Albany snuck ahead of it? And since when was Batavia included in the Rochester metro area? They must have redefined the boundaries in the 2003 revision.

Batavia? I can see Brockport and Bergen perhaps - maybe even Albion and Byron if you stretch the point - but Batavia?

[CaveMike]

@Exapno Mapcase

And since when was Batavia included in the Rochester metro area? They must have redefined the boundaries in the 2003 revision.

Looks like you are dead-on. From here:

U.S. Bureau of the Census: Metropolitan Areas. New areas usually are added annually; definitions of existing areas updated only after each decennial census, in years ending in 3.

From here:

Combined Statistical Areas are composed of adjacent Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas which have demonstrated economic or social linkage. It may comprise two or more Metropolitan areas, a Metropolitan and Micropolitan area, two or more Micropolitan areas, or multiples of each.

Combined Statistical Areas are automatically created when there is 25% or more of employment “interchange” (commuting). For areas between 15% and 25% interchange, the decision to create a Combined area was based upon local opinion as provided by the Congressional delegation.

And from here:, “A Listing of All 116 Brand-New Combined Statistical Areas” dated Jul 13 2003

91. Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY CSA

[Exapno_Mapcase]

And note that a new Albany-Schenectady-Amsterdam, NY CSA was also created then. It includes:

104         Albany-Schenectady-Amsterdam, NY Combined Statistical Area
104  10580     Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area
104  11220     Amsterdam, NY Micropolitan Statistical Area
104  24020     Glens Falls, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area
104  24100     Gloversville, NY Micropolitan Statistical Area
104  26460     Hudson, NY Micropolitan Statistical Area