The Bend metropolitan area (formerly the Bend–Prineville, OR Combined Statistical Area and the Bend, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area) is a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consisting of Oregon's Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties.
In 2023, the Office of Management and Budget combined the former Bend-Prineville Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with adjacent Jefferson County to form the new MSA. It had a combined estimated population of 260,919 by the United States Census Bureau as of that year.
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