Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), Kentucky

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The Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) is a statistical entity in the U.S. state of Kentucky defined by the United States Census Bureau to represent the portion of the consolidated city-county of Louisville-Jefferson County that does not include any of the 83 separate incorporated places (municipalities) located within the city and county.[http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060622/NEWS01/60622034 Jefferson County cities: An article from The Courier-Journal][https://web.archive.org/web/20040904025721/http://www.census.gov/popest/geographic/ For what geographic areas does the Census Bureau produce estimates?] It is made of the portion of Jefferson County that was the city of Louisville prior to the 2003 creation of Louisville Metro, plus a large swath of previously unincorporated territory.

In the 2010 United States census, the balance had a population of 597,337,{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190521214830/https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 21, 2019 |title=2010 Demographic Profile Data, Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), Kentucky |work=2010 United States Census |publisher=United States Census Bureau |accessdate=December 31, 2011 }} while the 2010 population of the entire governmental area was 741,096. It is also located within the Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.