Erie, PA Metro Area
The Erie, PA metro area is one county in Pennsylvania: Erie County. About 265,832 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 1.9% fewer than in April 2020.
- Population, July 2025
- 265,832 1.9% fewer than in April 2020
- Type
- Metropolitan statistical area
- County
- Erie County
- Land area
- 799 sq mi (2,069 km²)
- Time zone
- Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Combined statistical area
- Erie-Meadville, PA
- CBSA code
- 21500
The county in the Erie, PA metro area
| County | Role | Population, July 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Erie County | Central | 265,832 |
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
- Erie93,850 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 Erie-Meadville, PA 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
- Meadville, PA Micro Area81,792 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.
- Meadville, PA Micro Area33 mi south
- Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY Micro Area43 mi east
- Warren, PA Micro Area51 mi east
- Cleveland, OH Metro Area94 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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