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Columbus, IN Metro Area

The Columbus, IN metro area is one county in Indiana: Bartholomew County. About 85,729 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 4.3% more than in April 2020.

Bartholomew County, centralColumbus
Bartholomew County in Indiana
Population, July 2025
85,729 4.3% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
County
Bartholomew County
Land area
407 sq mi (1,054 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
Indiana
Combined statistical area
Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN
CBSA code
18020
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The county in the Columbus, IN metro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Bartholomew CountyCentral85,729

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 city

  1. Columbus51,824 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 Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 9 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN Metro Area2,205,695 people
  2. Muncie, IN Metro Area113,106 people
  3. Kokomo, IN Metro Area83,904 people
  4. New Castle, IN Micro Area49,137 people
  5. Seymour, IN Micro Area47,370 people
  6. Crawfordsville, IN Micro Area38,954 people
  7. Greencastle, IN Micro Area37,876 people
  8. Peru, IN Micro Area34,487 people
  9. Greensburg, IN Micro Area26,576 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. Seymour, IN Micro Area18 mi south
  2. Greensburg, IN Micro Area25 mi northeast
  3. Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN Metro Area41 mi north

Before using this answer on a form

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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