Metropolitan areas

A metropolitan area is the labour market a commute actually covers, which is why the federal wage survey publishes an occupation mix for each one and why the housing indices publish a metro row. Each page prints the top thirty occupations and all twenty-two major groups, the metro housing market, and a jobs estimate rolled up from the member counties with its arithmetic shown and its withheld counties named rather than counted as zero.

A metro address is its five-digit CBSA code: /metro/41700 is San Antonio–New Braunfels. All 393 areas are listed; the table is derived offline from the bundled wage survey index, so an unknown code is a genuine 404 rather than a gap waiting on a pull.