Greater Philadelphia Population and Economic Data

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Regional Data > Population and Economic Data

Greater Philadelphia has:

Total 2008 population of 6.1 million people.
Total employment in 2009 of 2.9 million jobs.
2nd largest on the East Coast in terms of employment and population.
5h largest metropolitan region in the U.S. population, following only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas.
7th highest gross metro product.
5th largest total personal income.
4th largest media market.
A total of 46.1 million persons currently reside within 200 miles of downtown Philadelphia, second highest among 12 cities analyzed* and second only to New York City's total of 48.9 million.
The total income of the population within the 200 mile radius was $1.46 trillion, second highest among the 12 cities*.

Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009. Bureau of Census, 2009. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2009. Global Insights, 2009.

*The Claritas demographic data based was used to estimate the total population, households and income located within a 200 mile radius of downtown Philadelphia; estimates were also derived for 11 other large cities (New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco).

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