Northeastern United States (U.S. Census Bureau)

A map of the Northeastern United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, though other entities define the region in varying ways.

The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau.^[1]

Composition

The region comprises nine states: the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont; and the Mid-Atlantic states of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.^[2] The Census Bureau regions are "widely used...for data collection and analysis."^[3][4][5] Not all definitions of the Northeastern United States, however, are the same as the Census Bureau's.^[6][7]

Demography

New York, the most populated city of the United States

Philadelphia, the second most populated city in the Northeast and the fifth most populated city in the United States

Boston, the most populated city in New England and the third most populated in the Northeast

The region accounts for approximately 25% of U.S. gross domestic product as of 2007.^[8] As of the 2010 Census, the population of the region totaled 55,317,240. ^[9]

Rank	Metropolitan Area	State(s) and/or Territory	2010 Census Population
1	New York	CT, NJ, NY	18,897,109
2	Philadelphia	DE, NJ, PA	5,965,343
3	Boston	MA, NH	4,552,402
4	Pittsburgh	PA	2,356,285
5	Providence	MA, RI	1,600,852
6	Hartford	CT	1,212,381
7	Buffalo	NY	1,135,509
8	Rochester	NY	1,054,323

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Rank	City	State(s) and/or Territory	2010 Census Population
1	New York City	NY	8,175,133
2	Philadelphia	PA	1,526,006
3	Boston	MA	617,594
4	Pittsburgh	PA	305,704
5	Newark	NJ	277,140
6	Buffalo	NY	261,310
7	Jersey City	NJ	247,597
8	Rochester	NY	210,565
9	Yonkers	NY	195,976

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References

1. ^ "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States". US Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf. 
2. ^ US Regional Divisions, accessed 16 Apr 2008
3. ^ U.S. Energy Information Administration, "The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview 2003", Report #:DOE/EIA-0581(2009) (October 2009).
4. ^ "The most widely used regional definitions follow those of the U.S. Bureau of the Census." Seymour Sudman & Norman M. Bradburn, Asking Questions: A Practical Guide to Questionnaire Design, Jossey-Bass (1982): p. 205.
5. ^ "Perhaps the most widely used regional classification system is one developed by the U.S. Census Bureau." Dale M. Lewison, Retailing, Prentice Hall (1997): p. 384. ISBN 9780134614274
6. ^ "Northeast", MSN Encarta dictionary.
7. ^ American Heritage Dictionary on dictionary.com, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/northeast 
8. ^ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State^{[dead link]}
9. ^ http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-01.pdf
10. ^ "Population and Housing Occupancy Status: 2010 - United States -- Metropolitan Statistical Area; and for Puerto Rico more information 2010 Census National Summary File of Redistricting Data". 2010 United States Census. United States Census Bureau, Population Division. April 14, 2011. http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_NSRD_GCTPL2.US24PR&prodType=table. Retrieved July 25, 2011. 
11. ^ "American FactFinder". U.S. Census Bureau. http://factfinder2.census.gov. Retrieved July 25, 2011.