Quad Cities Metropolitan Area

Davenport-Moline-
Rock Island, IA-IL

Common name: Quad Cities
Largest city	Davenport, Iowa
Other cities	- Bettendorf, Iowa  - Moline, Illinois  - Rock Island, Illinois  - East Moline, Illinois
Population	Ranked 132nd in the U.S.
- Total	379,690 (2010 est.)
- Density	163.19 /sq. mi.  63.01 /km²
Area	2,314 sq. mi. 5,993 km²
State(s)	- Iowa  - Illinois
Elevation
- Highest point	850 feet (259 m)
- Lowest point	590 feet (180 m)

The Quad Cities Metropolitan Area, more formally known as the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area is the metropolitan area associated with the Quad Cities and its suburbs. The Quad Cities Metropolitan Area is also considered part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis, and is the largest "Metropolitan Area"" along the Mississippi River in Iowa and between Minneapolis–Saint Paul and the St. Louis metropolitan area.^[1] The Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of four counties: Scott County in Iowa and Henry, Mercer, and Rock Island counties in Illinois. The Quad City Metro population as of a 2010 estimate is 379,690.^[2]

In addition to the five anchor cities, the Quad Cities area comprises surrounding smaller communities. Examples include the Iowa cities of Dixon, Donahue, Eldridge, Long Grove, Park View, Blue Grass, Buffalo, Montpelier, Walcott, Maysville, McCausland, Mount Joy, New Liberty, Princeton, LeClaire, Panorama Park and Riverdale. The Illinois communities are Silvis, Milan, Andalusia, Carbon Cliff, Coal Valley, Colona, Geneseo, Hampton, Port Byron, Orion, Kewanee, Annawan, Aledo, and Rapids City.

Communities

Places with 90,000 to 120,000 inhabitants

• Davenport, Iowa

Places with 50,000 to 90,000 inhabitants

• Moline, Illinois

Places with 30,000 to 50,000 inhabitants

• Bettendorf, Iowa
• Rock Island, Illinois

Places with 10,000 to 30,000 inhabitants

• East Moline, Illinois
• Silvis, Illinois

Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants

Aledo, Illinois Blue Grass, Iowa Buffalo, Iowa Cambridge, Illinois Coal Valley, Illinois Eldridge, Iowa Geneseo, Illinois Hampton, Illinois Kewanee, Illinois Le Claire, Iowa Milan, Illinois Orion, Illinois Park View, Iowa Port Byron, Illinois Walcott, Iowa

Places with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants

Annawan, Illinois Cleveland, Illinois Dixon, Iowa Donahue, Iowa Long Grove, Iowa Maysville, Iowa McCausland, Iowa New Liberty, Iowa Princeton, Iowa Panorama Park, Iowa Riverdale, Iowa Sherrard, Illinois

Unincorporated places

• Creekville, Iowa
• Matherville, Illinois
• Montpelier, Iowa
• Mount Joy, Iowa

References

1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Megalopolis
2. ^ "American FactFinder". United Staes Census Bureau. 2010. http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST05&prodType=table. Retrieved May 26, 2011.  Note: Quad City population is equivalent to adding up the populations of Scott County, Iowa and Rock Island, Mercer, and Henry Counties in Illinois.