The Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the

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, is an area consisting of two counties in New York's

Hudson Valley The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York. The region stretches from the Capital District including Albany and Troy south to ...

, with the cities of Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, and Middletown as its principal cities. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 679,221 The area was centered on the

urban area An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities ...

of Poughkeepsie-Newburgh. The Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown MSA is a component of the New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 23,582,649 as of the 2020 census. In February 2013, the MSA was deleted, and the constituent counties became part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Areas. During this time, the counties were split into two metropolitan divisions: Orange County was a part of the New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division, while Dutchess County was in the Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY Metropolitan Division. The MSA was restored as a separate entity in September 2018.

Counties

* Dutchess * Orange

Communities

Cities

* Beacon * Middletown (Principal city) * Newburgh (Principal city) * Port Jervis * Poughkeepsie (Principal city)

Towns

* Amenia * Beekman * Blooming Grove *

Chester Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...

* Clinton *

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a Historic counties of England, historic county and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people ...

* Crawford * Deerpark *

Dover Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maids ...

* East Fishkill * Fishkill * Goshen * Greenville * Hamptonburgh * Highlands * Hyde Park *

LaGrange Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi LagrangiaMilan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...

* Minisink * Monroe * Montgomery * Mount Hope * New Windsor * Newburgh *

North East The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sep ...

Palm Tree The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm tr ...

* Pawling * Pine Plains * Pleasant Valley * Poughkeepsie * Red Hook * Rhinebeck * Stanford *

Tuxedo Black tie is a semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and American conventions for attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdochically by its principal element ...

* Union Vale * Wallkill * Wappinger *

Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined wit ...

Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...

* Wawayanda * Woodbury

Villages

Cornwall-on-Hudson Cornwall-on-Hudson is a riverfront village in the town of Cornwall, Orange County, New York, United States. It lies on the west bank of the Hudson River, approximately north of New York City. The population as of the 2010 census was 3,018. ...

* Fishkill *

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and ...

* Goshen * Greenwood Lake * Harriman * Highland Falls *

Kiryas Joel Kiryas Joel ( yi, קרית יואל, Kiryas Yoyel, ; often locally abbreviated as KJ) is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States. The village shares one government with the Town. The vast major ...

* Maybrook * Millbrook * Millerton * Monroe * Montgomery * Otisville * Pawling * Red Hook * Rhinebeck * South Blooming Grove *

Tivoli Tivoli may refer to: * Tivoli, Lazio, a town in Lazio, Italy, known for historic sites; the inspiration for other places named Tivoli Buildings * Tivoli (Baltimore, Maryland), a mansion built about 1855 * Tivoli Building (Cheyenne, Wyoming), ...

* Tuxedo Park * Unionville *

Walden ''Walden'' (; first published in 1854 as ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'') is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part ...

* Wappingers Falls *

* Washingtonville * Woodbury

Census-designated places

* Amenia * Arlington * Balmville * Beaver Dam Lake * Brinckerhoff * Central Valley * Crown Heights *

Dover Plains Dover Plains is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 1,323 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie– Newburgh– Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

* Fairview * Firthcliffe * Fort Montgomery * Gardnertown * Haviland *

Highland Mills Highland Mills is a hamlet and former census-designated place (CDP) in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 3,468 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie– Newburgh– Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistic ...

* Hillside Lake * Hopewell Junction * Mechanicstown * Myers Corner * New Windsor * Orange Lake * Pine Bush * Pine Plains * Pleasant Valley * Red Oaks Mill * Salisbury Mills * Scotchtown * Spackenkill * Sparrow Bush * Staatsburg * Vails Gate * West Point

Hamlet

* Amity *

Annandale-on-Hudson Annandale-on-Hudson is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States, located in the Hudson Valley town of Red Hook, New York, Red Hook, across the Hudson River from Kingston, New York, Kingston. The hamlet consists main ...

* Arden * Barrytown * Bellvale * Bullville * Campbell Hall * Chelsea * Circleville * Cuddebackville * Howells *

Huguenot The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...

* Linden Acres *

Little Britain Little Britain may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Little Britain'' (sketch show), a British radio and then TV show ** ''Little Britain USA'', an American spin-off * "Little Britain", a song by Dreadzone from the 1995 album ''Second Light'' * ...

* Michigan Corners * Mountain Lodge Park * Mountainville * New Hamburg * New Hampton * Pine Island * Pleasant Plains * Rhinecliff * Salt Point *

Shekomeko Shekomeko (41°55'41"N 73°35'58"W) was a historic hamlet in the southwestern part of the town of North East, New York, United States) in present-day Dutchess County. It was a village of the Mahican people. They lived by a stream which Anglo-Am ...

* Slate Hill *

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* Thompson Ridge * Verbank * Wassaic * Westbrookville

Demographics

2010 Census

As of the census of 2010, there were 670,301 people, 233,890 households, and 164,352 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 78.50%

White White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White ...

, 10.10%

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

, 0.40% Native American, 2.90% Asian, 0.03%

Pacific Islander Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. As an ethnic/ racial term, it is used to describe the original peoples—inhabitants and diasporas—of any of the three major subregions of O ...

, 5.20% from other races, and 2.90%% from two or more races.

Hispanic The term ''Hispanic'' ( es, hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad. The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties for ...

or Latino of any race were 14.7% of the population.

2000 Census

As of the

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of 2000, there were 621,517 people, 214,324 households, and 153,660 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 83.68%

, 8.64%

, 0.29% Native American, 1.96% Asian, 0.03%

, 3.31% from other races, and 2.07% from two or more races.

or Latino of any race were 9.30% of the population. The median income for a household in the MSA was $52,572, and the median income for a family was $61,805. Males had a median income of $43,970 versus $30,764 for females. The

per capita income Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population. Per capita i ...

for the MSA was $22,769.

Colleges and universities

*Dutchess County **

Adelphi University Adelphi University is a private university in Garden City, New York. Adelphi also has centers in Manhattan, Hudson Valley, and Suffolk County. There is also a virtual, online campus for remote students. It is the oldest institution of higher edu ...

's Hudson Valley Center in the City of Poughkeepsie ** Bard College in

** Culinary Institute of America's main campus in Hyde Park ** Dutchess Community College in the Town of Poughkeepsie ** Marist College in the Town of Poughkeepsie **Ridley-Lowell Business & Technical Institute in the City of Poughkeepsie **

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely foll ...

in the Town of Poughkeepsie *Orange County **

Mount Saint Mary College Mount Saint Mary College is a private Catholic college in Newburgh, New York. It was founded in 1959 by the Dominican Sisters. The campus overlooks the Hudson River, halfway between New York City and Albany. More than 2,700 men and women are ...

in Newburgh ** Orange County Community College in Middletown with a satellite campus in Newburgh **

United States Military Academy The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known Metonymy, metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a f ...

in West Point

Transportation

Major infrastructure includes: * Stewart International Airport, which has scheduled flights on Allegiant Air, American Eagle, Delta Connection, JetBlue Airways and Norwegian Air Shuttle. *

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada. ...

, with a station at Poughkeepsie. * Metro North's Hudson Line, a commuter rail line serving the eastern Hudson communities *Metro North's Port Jervis Line, a commuter rail line serving Orange County and part of Rockland County * Interstate 87, the eastern section of the

New York State Thruway , direction_a = South , terminus_a = {{Jct, state=NY, I, 95 at the The Bronx, Bronx–Yonkers, New York City line , junction = {{plainlist, * {{jct, state=NY, I, 287, Parkway, Saw Mill, NY, 119 in Elmsford, New York, Elmsford * {{jct, state=NY, ...

. * Interstate 84, going from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts. *

Taconic State Parkway The Taconic State Parkway (often called the Taconic or the TSP and known administratively as New York State Route 987G or NY 987G) is a parkway between Kensico Dam and Chatham, the longest in the U.S. state of New York. It follows ...

, going from Columbia County to Westchester County. *Commercial bus companies serving Newburgh, and other cities along the Hudson River, ultimately having a destination in Albany or in New York City.

References

External links

Bureau of Labor Statistics
- May 2008 Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates {{DEFAULTSORT:Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown Metropolitan Area Orange County, New York Dutchess County, New York Northeast megalopolis Hudson Valley