Metropolitan Area
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Metropolitan Statistical Area covers Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wyoming counties. It had a combined population of 563,936 in 2011, according to TrueKnowledge.com. The area also has the highest percentage of non-Hispanic whites of any U.S. metropolitan area with a population over 500,000, with 96.2% of the population stating their race as white alone and not claiming Hispanic ethnicity.
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