• 7th highest gross metro product.
• 5th largest total personal income.
• 4th largest media market.
• A large market and a major economic force with a total of 6.1 million people in 2008 and total employment of 2.9 million jobs in 2009.
• 2nd largest on the East Coast in terms of employment and population.
• 5th largest metropolitan region in the U.S. population, following only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas.
• The total income of the population within the 200 mile radius was $1.46 trillion, second highest among the 12 cities*.

Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009. Bureau of Census, 2009. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2009. Global Insights, 2009.

*The Claritas demographic data based was used to estimate the total population, households and income located within a 200 mile radius of downtown Philadelphia; estimates were also derived for 11 other large cities (New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco).