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Local SEO in the largest US metros

The 25 largest metropolitan areas, plus San Juan. Each page is about how search works in that place: housing, weather, language, and which city names customers actually type. Population figures are Census Bureau estimates for July 1, 2024, for the metro, not the city limits.

New York

New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY-NJ

New York is not one search. A locksmith in Bay Ridge and a locksmith in Hoboken do not compete for the same “near me,” even though both sit inside the country’s largest metro. The…

Local SEO in New York

Boston

Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA-NH

Boston’s metro held 5,025,517 people in the Census Bureau’s July 1, 2024 estimate, and it reaches into New Hampshire. The searches that pay are smaller than that: a triple-decker…

Local SEO in Boston

Philadelphia

Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

The Philadelphia metro is 6,330,422 people across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and a sliver of Maryland, according to the Census estimate for July 1, 2024. Customers do not…

Local SEO in Philadelphia

Washington, DC

Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

The Washington metro is 6,436,489 people in DC, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia as of the July 1, 2024 Census estimate. Almost nobody hires a plumber for “the metro.” They…

Local SEO in Washington, DC

Baltimore

Baltimore–Columbia–Towson, MD

Baltimore–Columbia–Towson is its own metro, 2,859,024 people on July 1, 2024, not a neighborhood of Washington. The housing is older brick and rowhouses, the humidity comes off…

Local SEO in Baltimore

Detroit

Detroit–Warren–Dearborn, MI

Metro Detroit is 4,400,578 people as of July 1, 2024, and most of them do not live in the city of Detroit. Warren, Dearborn, Sterling Heights, and Oakland County suburbs are their…

Local SEO in Detroit

Miami

Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach, FL

The Miami metro is 6,457,988 people from Miami-Dade through Broward to West Palm Beach, on the Census count for July 1, 2024. It is one of the most bilingual large markets in the…

Local SEO in Miami

Tampa

Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater, FL

Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater counted 3,424,560 people on July 1, 2024. The bay is the point. Tampa, St. Pete, and Clearwater are different searches separated by bridges, and…

Local SEO in Tampa

Orlando

Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, FL

Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford is 2,940,513 people as of July 1, 2024, and the theme parks distort how marketing people think about the city. Most home-service calls come from people…

Local SEO in Orlando

Atlanta

Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell, GA

Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell is 6,411,149 people as of July 1, 2024, spread across a metro that locals divide into ITP and OTP: inside the Perimeter and outside it. Traffic makes…

Local SEO in Atlanta

Charlotte

Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia, NC-SC

Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia crosses into South Carolina and held 2,883,370 people on July 1, 2024. Fort Mill and Rock Hill are part of how people live here, and they are not…

Local SEO in Charlotte

San Juan

San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas, PR

San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas is Puerto Rico’s main metro, 2,035,484 people in the Census Bureau’s July 1, 2024 estimate. Search here is Spanish-first, with English for part of the…

Local SEO in San Juan

Chicago

Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL-IN

The Chicago metro is 9,408,576 people as of July 1, 2024, including suburbs in Illinois and a piece of Indiana. Customers search the neighborhood or the suburb: Logan Square,…

Local SEO in Chicago

Minneapolis

Minneapolis–St. Paul–Bloomington, MN-WI

Minneapolis–St. Paul–Bloomington is 3,757,952 people as of July 1, 2024, and it includes a bit of Wisconsin. The two core cities are not one keyword. Ice dams, frozen pipes, and a…

Local SEO in Minneapolis

St. Louis

St. Louis, MO-IL

The St. Louis metro is 2,811,927 people in Missouri and Illinois as of July 1, 2024. The city and the county are different governments, and the Metro East is a different state.…

Local SEO in St. Louis

Dallas

Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX

Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington is 8,344,032 people as of July 1, 2024, and it is a set of cities that refuse to be one keyword. Dallas is not Fort Worth. Plano, Arlington, Frisco,…

Local SEO in Dallas

Houston

Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands, TX

Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands is 7,796,182 people as of July 1, 2024. The metro is defined by distance, water, and air conditioning. Katy, Pearland, Pasadena, and The Woodlands…

Local SEO in Houston

San Antonio

San Antonio–New Braunfels, TX

San Antonio–New Braunfels is 2,763,006 people as of July 1, 2024. Spanish is an everyday search language, military households move often, and the ground is limestone that…

Local SEO in San Antonio

Austin

Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos, TX

Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos is the 25th-largest US metro, 2,550,637 people on July 1, 2024, and it has been adding households fast. New residents search because they do not have…

Local SEO in Austin

Los Angeles

Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA

Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim is 12,927,614 people as of July 1, 2024. The freeway, not the city limit, decides whether you can take the job. The Valley, the Westside, Long…

Local SEO in Los Angeles

San Francisco

San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont, CA

San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont is 4,648,486 people as of July 1, 2024. Oakland and Fremont are in the name because they are not an afterthought. The East Bay, the city of San…

Local SEO in San Francisco

San Diego

San Diego–Chula Vista–Carlsbad, CA

San Diego–Chula Vista–Carlsbad is 3,298,799 people as of July 1, 2024. The climate is mild enough that HVAC is not the same emergency business it is in Phoenix, and water rules…

Local SEO in San Diego

Phoenix

Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler, AZ

Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler is 5,186,958 people as of July 1, 2024. Mesa and Chandler are in the name because customers type them. Heat is the organizing fact of local business here:…

Local SEO in Phoenix

Seattle

Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA

Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue is 4,145,494 people as of July 1, 2024. Bellevue and Tacoma are in the name because the Eastside and the south end are not Seattle. Rain, mossy roofs,…

Local SEO in Seattle

Denver

Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO

Denver–Aurora–Centennial is 3,052,498 people as of July 1, 2024. Aurora and Centennial are in the name and are not Denver neighborhoods. Hail is the roofing economy. Altitude and…

Local SEO in Denver

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