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Memphis metropolitan area

The Memphis–Clarksdale-Forrest City Combined Statistical Area, TN–MS–AR (CSA) is the commercial and cultural hub of the Mid-South or Ark-Miss-Tenn. The census-defined combined statistical area covers eleven counties in three states, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. As of 2020 census, the Memphis metropolitan area had a population of 1,389,905[1] The Forrest City, Arkansas Micropolitan area was added to the Memphis area in 2012 to form the Memphis–Forrest City Combined Statistical area. In 2023 the Clarksdale, Mississippi Micropolitan area was also added to form the new Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City Combined Statistical Area which as of 2023 had a population of roughly 1.4 million people according to census estimates.[3]

Memphis Metropolitan Area

United States

Memphis, Tennessee (656,861)

4,599 sq mi (11,910 km2)

1,389,905[1]

426.7/sq mi (164.8/km2)

$96.183 billion (2022)

The greater Mid-South area has a population of 2.4 million, according to 2013 census estimates.[4] This area is covered by Memphis local news channels and includes the Missouri Bootheel, Northeast Arkansas, West Tennessee, and North Mississippi.[5]

Regional identity[edit]

The Memphis metropolitan area is part of the Mid-South of the United States. It is culturally more associated with the Deep South and the Mississippi Delta than it is the Upland South, which is the case with Tennessee's other large cities. Memphis, Tennessee, is the largest city in the Deep South, the third-largest in the Southeastern United States, and the eighth-largest in the Southern United States as a whole. African-Americans make up nearly half the population of the metro area. The Mid-South has the highest percentage of African Americans of all large metro areas with at least a million people. It is the second-largest when metropolitan areas under a million people are factored in after the Jackson-Vicksburg-Brookhaven, MS Combined Statistical Area.


The metro area is blue collar in nature and most of its growth can be attributed to its logistical infrastructure. Recently, however, more companies with technology backgrounds such as Electrolux and Mitsubishi have begun making inroads in the Memphis area.[6]

University of Memphis

Rhodes College

Christian Brothers University

LeMoyne–Owen College

Baptist College of Health Sciences

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Southern College of Optometry

Rust College

Four Year Colleges and Graduate Schools


Two Year Colleges

Memphis International Airport

General DeWitt Spain Airport

Olive Branch Airport

Millington Municipal Airport

Airports:


Freeways:

(Principal City)

Memphis, Tennessee

Demographics[edit]

According to U.S.census estimates for 2013,[11] there were 1,371,110 people residing within the CSA. The racial makeup of the CSA was 45.2% non-Hispanic White, 47.3% African American, 0.5% Native American, 2.2% Asian, <0.1% Pacific Islander, and Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.1% of the population.[11] Memphis is the only metropolitan/combined statistical area in the United States with over a million people to have a plurality/majority African American population.[12] The Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area also has this distinction but only has around half a million people.


The median income for a household in the MSA was $47,344 and the mean was $65,463. The median income for a family was $57,780 and the mean was $76,126. The per capita income for the MSA was $24,675.[13]

Tennessee census statistical areas

Mississippi census statistical areas

Arkansas census statistical areas

Greater Memphis Chamber

Greater Memphis Laws