Metro Atlanta
Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the eighth-largest in the United States. Its economic, cultural, and demographic center is Atlanta, and its total population was 6,237,435 in the 2022 estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Metropolitan Atlanta
Metro Atlanta | ||
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Midtown Atlanta in April 2016 | ||
Atlanta–Athens-Clarke County–Sandy Springs, GA–AL CSA
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| Country | United States | |
| State | Georgia | |
| Area | ||
| • Metro | 8,376 sq mi (21,694 km2) | |
| • CSA | 10,494.03 sq mi (27,179.4 km2) | |
| Elevation | 606–3,288 ft (185–1,002 m) | |
| Population (2022 estimates) | ||
| • Density | 624/sq mi (243/km2) | |
| • Urban | 5,100,112 (9th) | |
| • MSA | 6,237,435 (8th) | |
| • CSA | 7,136,414 (10th) | |
| GDP | ||
| • MSA | $525.9 billion (2022) | |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) | |
| ZIP codes | 300xx to 303xx | |
| Area codes | 404/678/470 inside the perimeter 770/678/470 outside the perimeter | |
| Website | www | |
The core 5 counties of metropolitan Atlanta are Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Clayton counties. The metro area forms the core of a broader trading area, the Atlanta–Athens–Clarke–Sandy Springs combined statistical area. The combined statistical area spans up to 39 counties in North Georgia, and one county in Alabama, Chambers. The CSA recorded in the 2020 U.S. census a population of 6,930,423. Atlanta is the second-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Census Bureau's Southeast region, behind that of Greater Washington, D.C. It surpassed the Greater Miami area in total population in 2021.