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South Hampton Roads is a region located in the extreme southeastern portion of Virginia's Tidewater region in the United States with a total population of 1,177,742 [a] as of 2020. It is part of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA ( Metropolitan Statistical Area ), which itself has a population of 1,780,059 as of 2020.
The region includes Central Maryland, Northern Virginia, three counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, and one county in south-central Pennsylvania. It is the most educated, highest-income, and third-most populous combined statistical area in the United States behind New York City–Newark, NJ and Los Angeles–Long Beach. [2] [3]
The Hampton Roads area has the highest percentage of Puerto Ricans of any metropolitan area in the Southern US outside Florida, and also has a sizable Filipino population with about 45,000 in the area, many of whom have ties to the U.S. Navy. [36] As of 2005, 6.1% of Virginians are Hispanic and 5.2% are Asian. [5]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Franklin is the southwesternmost independent city in Hampton Roads, Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 8,180. [ 5 ] The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Franklin with Southampton County for statistical purposes.
Hampton Roads joins cities and counties across the country each year to do a single-day count of homeless people. Known as the point-in-time count, it’s designed to give the U.S. Department of ...
Two highways are convenient for Western Branch residents; I-664, part of the Hampton Roads Beltway, cuts right through the center of Western Branch and takes residents north and south. Taking I-664 south allows residents to get on I-64 , to head towards southern Chesapeake , and I-264 , to head towards Portsmouth , and to Norfolk and Virginia ...
Past No. 1 players in South Hampton Roads’ Top 50 high school football recruits since 2004, including their college choice. NOTE: The list started to include the Peninsula and Bay Rivers ...