Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Area

The Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Area is a United States metropolitan area defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The metropolitan area covers the counties of Kalamazoo and Van Buren. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 314,866, with the 2007 Census Bureau estimate placing it at 323,264. It is the 147th largest among similarly designated areas in the United States. [cite web |url=http://www.census.gov/popest/counties/tables/CO-EST2006-01-47.csv |title=Table 1., Population Division |date=2007-03-22 |accessdate=2007-04-05] [cite web |url=http://www.census.gov/popest/counties/tables/CO-EST2006-01-05.csv |title=Table 1. ]

Counties

* Kalamazoo County
* Van Buren County

Cities and towns

Places with 25,000 to 100,000 inhabitants

*Kalamazoo
*Portage

Places with 5,000 to 25,000 inhabitants

*Antwerp Township
*Comstock Township
*Cooper Township
*Kalamazoo Charter Township
*Oshtemo Township
*Pavilion Township
*Paw Paw Township
*Richland Township
*Ross Township
*Schoolcraft Township
*South Haven, city
*Texas Township

Places with 500 to 5,000 inhabitants

*Alamo Township
*Almena Township
*Arlington Township
*Augusta
*Bangor Township
*Bangor, city
*Bloomingdale Township
*Bloomingdale, village
*Brady Township
*Charleston Township
*Climax Township
*Climax
*Columbia Township
*Covert Township
*Decatur Township
*Decatur, village
*Galesburg
*Geneva Township
*Gobles, city
*Hamilton Township
*Hartford Township
*Hartford, city
*Keeler Township
*Lawrence Township
*Lawrence, village
*Lawton, village
*Mattawan, village
*Parchment
*Paw Paw, village
*Pine Grove Township
*Porter Township
*Prairie Ronde Township
*Richland
*Schoolcraft
*South Haven Charter Township
*Vicksburg
*Wakeshma Township
*Waverly Township

Places with fewer than 500 inhabitants

*Breedsville, village

Unincorporated places

*Comstock Northwest, CDP
*Eastwood, CDP
*Greater Galesburg, CDP
*South Gull Lake, CDP
*Westwood, CDP

Demographics

As of the censusGR|2 of 2000, there were 314,866 people, 121,461 households, and 78,270 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 85.38% White, 8.64% African American, 0.54% Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.80% from other races, and 2.16% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.79% of the population.

The median income for a household in the MSA was $40,694, and the median income for a family was $49,889. Males had a median income of $37,464 versus $26,514 for females. The per capita income for the MSA was $19,809.

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