Metropolitan Statistical Area Comparisons

The Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission has completed a study comparing data from the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) to data from ten other MSAs in the United States. This study is an initial phase of MVRPC’s State of the Region Report, expected to be completed later this year.

The purpose of the Regional Cooperation Study is threefold. First, the study benchmarks how the Dayton region compares, in various statistical indicators, to ten other regions in the United States.

Second, the study examines how public, private, and civic leaders and individual citizens are fostering cooperating across their regions. Finally, the study examines possible correlations among prosperity, disparity, and growth patterns statistics and regional cooperation.

The report is broken into two sections. The first section is a multi-region analysis across the 11 regions. It ranks the regions on various indices and indicates how each index related to other indices. The second section presents individual reports on each of the regions, describing regional cooperation groups and activities and presenting the statistical profile of the region.

Ken LeBlanc presented a concise summarization of the MSA comparison study at the March 3, 2005 MVRPC Board meeting. The Regional Comparison Study (Adobe Acrobat Reader:1480kb) presentation contains many compartive graphs and data.

Full Report (Adobe Acrobat Reader:1.69 MB)

Each MSA can be downloaded separately below: