The
Greenville Metropolitan Area is the
metropolitan area encompassing
Greenville, South Carolina. The United States
Office of Management and Budget designates it the
Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, a
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) used by the
Census Bureau and other agencies. According to the OMB, the MSA comprises
Greenville,
Anderson,
Pickens, and
Laurens Counties and the principal cities of Greenville,
Mauldin and
Anderson. As of 2014, the MSA had a population of 862,463, making it the most populous in the state. A larger, 10-county region known as the
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Combined Statistical Area composes of most of the
Upstate region. As of 2014, the CSA had a population of 1,409,582, a 3.5% increase from 2010, making it the largest in the
South Carolina.