Feature Catalog for the 2024 Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSA) TIGER/Line Shapefile Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSA) 2024 2024-09-21 eng; USA utf8 U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact CBSA.shp Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) false CSAFP Current combined statistical area code, if applicable 100 599 CBSAFP Current metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area code 10000 49999 GEOID Metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area identifier, metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area code Metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area code found in CBSAFP GEOIDFQ Fully qualified metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area identifier; a concatenation of census survey summary level information with the metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area identifier. The GEOIDFQ attribute is calculated to facilitate joining census spatial data to census survey summary files. The GEOIDFQ attribute is a concatenation of the summary level code, followed by the geovariant code, followed by the geocomponent code, followed by 'US', followed by the metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area identifier. No spaces are allowed between the codes. The summary level code is '310'. The geovariant code is 'M6'. The geocomponent code is '00'. The metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area identifier is taken from the 'GEOID' attribute. NAME Current metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area name Values for this attribute are composed of a set of metropolitan/micropolitan statistical area names. As such, they do not exist in a known, predefined set. NAMELSAD Current name and the translated legal/statistical description for metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area Current name and the translated legal/statistical area description code for metropolitan/micropolitan area LSAD Current legal/statistical area description code for metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area M1 Metro Area (suffix) M2 Micro Area (suffix) MEMI Current metropolitan/micropolitan status indicator 1 Metropolitan 2 Micropolitan MTFCC MAF/TIGER feature class code G3110 Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area ALAND Current land area (square meters) 0 9,999,999,999,999 AWATER Current water area (square meters) 0 9,999,999,999,999 INTPTLAT Current latitude of the internal point -90 90 INTPTLON Current longitude of the internal point -180 180