Joplin, Missouri metropolitan area

The Joplin-Miami, MO-OK MSA, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area now consisting of three counties, Jasper and Newton counties in southwest Missouri, and Ottawa County, OK in extreme northeast Oklahoma, all anchored by the city of Joplin. The addition of Ottawa County was officially added to the Joplin Metropolitan area in April 2013. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 175,518, though as of the 2014 estimates, the population is 208,246.