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Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY Metro Area

The Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area is made up of 2 counties in New York: Erie and Niagara. About 1,155,653 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 1.0% fewer than in April 2020.

Erie County, centralNiagara County, centralBuffalo
2 counties in New York
Population, July 2025
1,155,653 1.0% fewer than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
Counties
2, both central
Land area
1,565 sq mi (4,054 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
New York
Combined statistical area
Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Olean, NY
CBSA code
15380
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Counties in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area, largest first

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025Share of the area
Erie CountyCentral946,74181.9%
Niagara CountyCentral208,91218.1%

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal cities, largest first

  1. Buffalo276,854 people
  2. Cheektowaga76,056 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Olean, NY combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other area in this one is

  1. Olean, NY Micro Area75,390 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Batavia, NY Micro Area35 mi east
  2. Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY Micro Area58 mi south
  3. Olean, NY Micro Area60 mi south
  4. Rochester, NY Metro Area66 mi east

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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