The population was 14,674 at the 2010 census, with 143,372 in the Traverse City
micropolitan area.
Fairhope is a principal city of the Daphne - Fairhope -
Foley micropolitan area, which includes all of Baldwin County.
For this benchmark, we use the racial composition of the larger metropolitan or
micropolitan area, the Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, in which the school is located.
Rankings would also change if we added other factors, such as the number of local breweries, or if we had expanded the list of cities we reviewed (we looked at the top 100
micropolitan cities, those with between 10,000 and 50,000 residents).
Two other places with an energy boom — Williston and Dickinson, North Dakota — were the fastest - growing «
micropolitan» areas in the country.
The city was ranked among the Top Ten «Micro American Cities of the Future» by fDi magazine, a subsidiary of the Financial Times of London, last month, ranking # 8 among
all micropolitan cities in North and South America.
Minot is the 4th largest city in North Dakota with nearly 50,000 residents and over 80,000 in
the micropolitan area.
Over the decades, many families have flocked to
the micropolitan region and created a bustling economy and community for many to enjoy.
Paducah is the hub of
its micropolitan area, which includes McCracken, Ballard, and Livingston counties in Kentucky and Massac County in Illinois.