MadMartin8 wrote:I'd be curious to see the GDP per capita, which is a better measure generally.
I was curious about the same thing, so I divided the GDP by the MSA Population. And to make it a more tangible number (to me at least)I multiplied the result by 100. I didn't think real hard on my methodology so it might be all wrong. But here is a sampling of the results I computed for the top 200 MSAs.
Omaha: 6.4557 (GDP/capita); 36 (Rank)
Albuquerque, NM: 4.7033 117
Birmingham-Hoover, AL: 5.5936 64
Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY: 4.973 97
Cedar Rapids, IA: 6.8298 25
Colorado Springs, CO: 4.2774; 152
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL: 5.0940 88
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO: 6.8639 23
Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA: 7.4742 13
Jacksonville, FL: 4.6608 120
Kansas City, MO-KS: 6.0177 46
Lincoln, NE: 5.8017 56
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR: 5.3676 75
Memphis, TN-MS-AR: 5.3029 77
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI: 6.4864 33
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington: 7.0584 20
Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN: 6.2109 41
New Orleans-Metairie, LA: 6.2142 40
Oklahoma City, OK: 5.3015 78
Sioux Falls, SD: 7.4357 15
St. Louis, MO-IL: 5.5156 69
Tucson, AZ: 3.5834 186
Tulsa, OK: 5.5661 65
Wichita, KS: 4.8825 105
If you combine the Omaha and Lincoln MSAs: 6.2849 37
I don't know if the link here will work but it is to the spreadsheet that compares population, GDP and Nielsen DMAs. (Don't get me started on DMAs.)