Milwaukee metropolitan area
The Milwaukee metropolitan area (also known as Metro Milwaukee or Greater Milwaukee ) is a metropolitan region in southeastern Wisconsin. Center and core city is Milwaukee and its immediate urban surroundings ( agglomeration ). Its metropolitan area covers five counties: Milwaukee County, Ozaukee County, Racine County, Washington County and Waukesha County.
Population
At the census in 2000 1.691.572 inhabitants were counted. The latest census in 2010 revealed an increase in population by 3.7 percent to 1,751,316.
Neighboring regions
The metropolitan Milwaukee closes immediately north of the Chicago metropolitan area. This is mainly in neighboring Illinois, but includes in its northern part, also located in Wisconsin Kenosha County.
The Milwaukee metropolitan area also attracts commuters from other areas such as the area around Madison in the West, Chicago and Green Bay in the south to the north.
Counties
The Milwaukee metropolitan area covers five counties:
Cities and Towns
Core city
- Milwaukee
Larger cities
- Racine
- Waukesha
- West Allis
Cities and municipalities in the metropolitan area with more than 10,000 inhabitants
- Brookfield
- Brown Deer
- Burlington
- Caledonia
- Cedarburg
- Cudahy
- Franklin
- German Town
- Glendale
- Grafton
- Greendale
- Greenfield
- Hartford
- Menomonee Falls
- Mequon
- Mount Pleasant
- Muskego
- New Berlin
- Oak Creek
- Oconomowoc
- Pewaukee
- Port Washington
- Richfield
- Shorewood
- South Milwaukee
- Wauwatosa
- West Bend
- Whitefish Bay
More Cities and Towns
- Bayside
- Belgium
- Big Bend
- Bohner's Lake
- Browns Lake
- Butler
- Chenequa
- Delafield
- Dousman
- Eagle
- Eagle Lake
- Elm Grove
- Elmwood Park
- Fox Point
- Fredonia
- Hales Corners
- Hartland
- Jackson
- Kewaskum
- Lac La Belle
- Lannon
- Merton
- Mukwonago
- Nashotah
- Newburg
- North Bay
- North Prairie
- Oconomowoc Lake
- Okauchee Lake
- Pewaukee
- River Hills
- Rochester
- Saukville
- Slinger
- St. Francis
- Sturtevant
- Sussex
- Thiensville
- Union Grove
- Wales
- Waterford
- West Milwaukee
- Wind Lake
- Wind Point