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Carson City, NV Metro Area

The Carson City, NV metro area is one independent city in Nevada: Carson City. About 58,571 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 0.1% fewer than in April 2020.

Carson City, centralCarson City
Carson City in Nevada
Population, July 2025
58,571 0.1% fewer than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
Independent city
Carson City
Land area
145 sq mi (374 km²)
Time zone
Pacific TimeUTC-08:00 in January; UTC-07:00 in July
State
Nevada
Combined statistical area
Reno-Carson City-Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA
CBSA code
16180
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The independent city in the Carson City, NV metro area

Independent cityRolePopulation, July 2025
Carson CityCentral58,571

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

Principal city

  1. Carson City58,384 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 Reno-Carson City-Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 3 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Reno, NV Metro Area578,734 people
  2. Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA Micro Area51,154 people
  3. Fallon, NV Micro Area25,851 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

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

  1. Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA Micro Area18 mi south
  2. Reno, NV Metro Area28 mi north
  3. Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metro Area101 mi southwest

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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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