Cumberland micropolitan area explained
Cumberland, MD-WV MSA, or Cumberland Metro for short, is the Metropolitan Statistical Area of Cumberland, Maryland, and the surrounding economic region of Allegany County, Maryland, and Mineral County, West Virginia, in the United States.
As of 2000, The City of Cumberland had a population of 21,591 and the surrounding area had a population of 102,008. Allegany and Mineral are mountainous, mostly rural areas. According to the 2000 census, more than 45 percent of the people living in the Cumberland region live in rural and non-incorporated areas.
The Cumberland Metropolitan Area is geographically isolated by a range of ridges and valleys from the rest of Maryland which is relatively flat. These mountain ranges form adjacent valleys which have served to collect and integrate the regional cities and towns together into urbanized channels that follow the valleys northeasterly. This has served to give the area a unique sense of identity and economic integration.
The median household income for the MSA was $30,916 and the average household income was $39,021.[1] The Cumberland Metro is one of the poorest in the United States, ranking 305th out of 318 metropolitan areas in per capita income.
GDP by year
Total GDP of Cumberland, MD-WV MSA[2]
| 2001 | 1.808 billion |
| 2002 | 1.920 billion |
| 2003 | 1.962 billion |
| 2004 | 2.023 billion |
| 2005 | 2.184 billion |
| 2011 | 3.466 billion |
| 2012 | 3.451 billion |
| 2013 | 3.455 billion |
| 2014 | 3.416 billion |
| 2015 | 3.443 billion |
| 2016 | 3.574 billion |
| 2017 | 3.613 billion |
| 2018F | 3.716 billion |
| 2019F | 3.788 billion |
| 2020F | 3.790 billion |
| 2021F | 3.840 billion |
| 2022F | 3.904 billion |
| 2023F | 3.952 billion | |
[3] Most populous places within the metro
- Cumberland, Maryland 21,591
- Frostburg, Maryland 7,529
- Cresaptown-Bel Air, Maryland 5,900
- Keyser, West Virginia 5,132
- La Vale, Maryland 4,658
Cities and towns within the metro
- 0miles Cumberland, MD
- 1.1miles Ridgeley, WV
- 2.9miles La Vale, MD
- 2.3miles Carpendele, WV
- 3miles Wiley Ford, WV
- 3.3miles Evitts Creek
- 3.5miles Bowling Green and Robert's Place
- 4.4miles Corriganville, MD
- 6.6miles Cresaptown, MD
- 6.6miles Bel Air, MD
- 6.6miles Ellerslie, MD
- 7miles Potomac Park, MD
- 8.1miles Spring Gap, MD
- 8.4miles Rocket Center, WV
- 8.4miles Pinto, MD
- 8.4miles Eckhart Mines, MD
- 9.5miles Mount Savage, MD
- 11.5miles Rawlings, MD
- 11.7miles Frostburg, MD
- 11.3miles Midlothian, MD
- 12.7miles Fort Ashby, WV
- 12.8miles Flintstone, MD
- 14.8miles Oldtown, MD
- 13.4miles Midland, MD
- 16.4miles Lonaconing, MD
- 19.8miles Barton, MD
- 20.4miles McCoole, MD
- 20.7miles Keyser, WV
- 24.3miles Westernport, MD
- 24.6miles Piedmont, WV
- 25.1miles Luke, MD
Metro corridors
Regional businesses and employers
Significant area employers include:
- Western Maryland Health System, which employs approximately 2,300 people, making it Cumberland's largest employer.
- Allegany Ballistics Laboratory/Northrop Grumman (approximately 1,000 people) a diverse state-of-the-art industrial complex located in Rocket Center, West Virginia. About 80 military products are made here. Also on the site is the Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex and the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing.
- Allegany County government.
- CSX: Located 177miles west of Baltimore, the Cumberland Locomotive Maintenance Facility is a vital point on CSX's Chicago to Baltimore mainline, employs 273 people at Cumberland shops and 600 men and women in Cumberland.
- Allegany College of Maryland employs approximately 800 people.
- Xerox Contact Center, which employs about 500 people.
- City of Cumberland employing approximately 300 people.
- CBIZ Accounting, Tax & Advisory of Maryland a full service CPA firm providing services to commercial and individual clients throughout the tri-states of Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
- Hunter Douglas: a 378000square feet facility, with 300 plus employees, makes the company the largest Hunter Douglas fabrication plant in the world. However, this plant will be closing its doors by the end of 2023.[4]
- American Woodmark, facilities located in the newly developed Barton Business Park, assembles wood cabinet components received from other AWC plants and ships completed cabinets to customers located in the Northeast and Midwest regions of the United States. (Approximately 500 people employed)
- Western Correctional Institution State Prison, employs 550 people; a number of other people are employed at the Federal Prison and the new Maximum Security Prison all in close proximity to Cumberland
See also
References
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Notes and References
- http://www.dataplace.org/area_overview/?place=p26.69511 Dataplace: Cumberland, MD-WV MAS
- https://www.bea.gov/regional/gdpmetro/ Bureau of Economic Analysis: Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area
- Indicators-MCUM, Moody's Analytics, 2018
- Web site: Hunter Douglas closing 'devastating loss' . Cumberland Times-News . 30 June 2023.
