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Census Urbanized Areas and MPO/TMA Designation

III. Urban Area Criteria & Federal Register Notices

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Census Bureau Resources

• Qualifying Urban Areas for 2010 Census Federal Register notice March 27, 2012 (PDF or HTML)
• Final Urban Area Criteria for the 2010 Census (PDF or TXT)
• Differences Between the Census 2000 and 2010 Census Urban Area Criteria (PDF or TXT)
• PowerPoint Presentation from the Census Bureau Geography Division Illustrating the Processes for Defining urbanized areas. (HTML or PowerPoint [12 MB])
• 2010 Census Urban/Rural Classification Website

USDOT Resources

The list of TMAs based on the 2010 Census-defined urbanized areas will be posted here approximately 6 weeks after the list of Census 2010 urbanized areas are published.

Note: please see definitions page regarding terminology of UA and UZA.