Savannah metropolitan area
metropolitan area in Georgia, United States
The Savannah metropolitan area, officially named the Savannah metropolitan statistical area by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, is a metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is centered on the city of Savannah and encompasses three counties: Bryan, Chatham, and Effingham.
The population of this area was 404,798 at the 2020 U.S. census, an increase of more than 57,000 residents from the 2010 census figure of 347,611. This was a gain of 16.45% over the same decade, making Savannah the fastest-growing metro area in the state for the period 2010–2020. (It was followed by Atlanta, Gainesville, and Warner Robins.) Savannah is the third most populous of Georgia's fourteen metropolitan areas (after Atlanta and Augusta).
Savannah and its metropolitan area form the largest economic sector of Coastal Georgia, followed by the Brunswick and Hinesville metropolitan areas. Two of these areas, Savannah and Hinesville, form the core of the Savannah–Hinesville–Statesboro combined statistical area. The combined statistical area had a 2020 population of 608,239.
Geography
The Savannah metropolitan area is located in the Coastal Georgia region, and is its most populous urban area. The three counties comprising the metropolitan area make up a total area of 1,569 square miles (4,060 km2), roughly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island at 1,545 square miles (4,000 km2).
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