HIFLD OPEN Metropolitan Divisions

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) U.S. Census Bureau; United States Department of Homeland Security

Version:  View help for Version V1

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metropolitan-divisions-2-shapefile.zip application/zip 2.5 MB 11/03/2025 09:00:AM

Project Citation: 

U.S. Census Bureau, and United States Department of Homeland Security. HIFLD OPEN Metropolitan Divisions. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-11-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/E239592V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title HIFLD OPEN Metropolitan Divisions
Summary:  View help for Summary Metropolitan Divisions are smaller groupings of counties or equivalent entities defined within a metropolitan statistical area containing a single core with a population of at least 2.5 million may be subdivided to form smaller groupings of counties or equivalent entities referred to as metropolitan divisions. Not all metropolitan statistical areas with urbanized areas of this size will contain metropolitan divisions. A metropolitan division consists of one or more main/secondary counties that represent an employment center or centers, plus adjacent counties associated with the main/secondary county or counties through commuting ties. Because metropolitan divisions represent subdivisions of larger metropolitan statistical areas, it is not appropriate to rank or compare metropolitan divisions with metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas. It would be appropriate to rank and compare metropolitan divisions.

Download: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TGRGDB24/tlgdb_2024_a_us_nationgeo.gdb.zip 

Layer: Metropolitan_Division

Metadata: https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Current_19115/series_tl_2023_...
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSA); Emergency Preparedness; Disaster Planning; Infrastructure; HIFLD Open; GIS
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 4/8/2025 – 4/8/2025
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) geographic information system (GIS) data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Archived from the HIFLD Open GIS data repository, which was deactivated on August 26, 2025.


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