Quote Originally Posted by Swake2 View Post
For D&B yes.

You numbers are a bit off, and the only way Oklahoma City has hit 1.3 million people is by using it’s CSA, which at the census was 1,322,429. The MSA was 1,252,987. You can’t claim OKC’s CSA while using MSA for the other cities. Your numbers are just off anyway.

Sacramento’s MSA was 2,149,129 and the city’s CSA was 2,461,780. That’s pretty much twice the size. As is Charlotte, the actual count for the MSA is 1,758,038 with 2,402,623 for the CSA.

Here’s the size of the D&B other “smallest” markets (MSA/CSA):

Columbus - 1,836,536 and 2,071,052
Austin – 1,716,289 and 1,759,039
Providence – 1,600,852 and 7,559,060 (part of the Boston CSA)
Jacksonville – 1,345,596 (no CSA)
Buffalo – 1,135,509 and 1,215,826 (not counting the nearly half million people on the Canadian side of the border, the real total metro population is 1.7 million)
Tulsa – 937,478 and 988,454
Tossing in Omaha as they are D&B smallest market 865,350 and 905,041

Oklahoma City is D&B’s third smallest market just ahead of Tulsa and right behind Jacksonville. There’s nothing wrong with that either. It’s a compliment to the market that they were willing to come in despite it being on the small side as compared to their other locations.
Good analysis, Swake. But, tell me again, which of those MSAs is more than twice the size of OKC? ;-)