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Airports — By Metro
US airports and heliports (OurAirports), split on scheduled_service -- the real commercial/private line, not the type field alone -- into commercial (scheduled passenger service) versus small/private (general aviation, no scheduled service) and heliports, shown separately. County and metro grains rank by commercial airports per 100,000 residents; jurisdiction ranks by raw commercial count. No drone-specific data on file -- the FAA drone registry has never been ingested.
49 metros with at least one airport on file · 147 commercial · 3,953 small/private · 3,867 heliports
# Metro Commercial Small / Private Heliports Total Population Commercial per 100,000
1 Walla Walla 1 8 2 11 62,102 1.61
2 Bozeman & Greater Yellowstone 6 98 34 138 529,288 1.13
3 Idaho (Boise) 8 321 62 391 1,893,296 0.42
4 Richland 1 14 8 23 307,900 0.32
5 Green Bay -- Titletown 1 20 5 26 329,375 0.30
6 Monterey 1 12 10 23 435,834 0.23
7 Utah (Silicon Slopes) 7 233 100 340 3,331,187 0.21
8 New England (NH · VT · ME · RI · CT) 17 312 326 655 8,104,207 0.21
9 Upstate New York 14 359 124 497 7,008,487 0.20
10 Northwest Arkansas 1 26 12 39 563,436 0.18
11 Spokane 1 44 9 54 591,793 0.17
12 the Sun Belt — Arizona 10 329 256 595 7,268,175 0.14
13 Seattle 5 41 70 116 4,021,467 0.12
14 Fort Worth 3 98 57 158 2,555,001 0.12
15 Baton Rouge 1 38 44 83 871,379 0.11
16 New Orleans 1 11 50 62 988,763 0.10
17 Greater Columbus 2 54 41 97 2,151,847 0.09
18 Cincinnati 2 49 54 105 2,246,830 0.09
19 Las Vegas 2 15 50 67 2,293,764 0.09
20 Silicon Valley 7 72 68 147 9,101,124 0.08
21 Austin 2 48 70 120 2,357,497 0.08
22 Pittsburgh 2 61 58 121 2,443,921 0.08
23 Greater Orlando 2 37 64 103 2,721,022 0.07
24 Greater Miami / South Florida 4 31 85 120 6,138,876 0.07
25 Denver 2 57 63 122 2,977,085 0.07
26 Greater St. Louis 2 73 64 139 2,809,414 0.07
27 Milwaukee 1 15 14 30 1,566,361 0.06
28 Greater San Diego 2 46 77 125 3,282,782 0.06
29 Tampa Bay 2 25 57 84 3,240,469 0.06
30 the Twin Cities 2 76 32 110 3,693,351 0.05
31 Kansas City 1 91 37 129 2,202,006 0.05
32 Greater Cleveland 1 48 47 96 2,171,978 0.05
33 Indianapolis 1 102 31 134 2,128,089 0.05
34 the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) 3 85 83 171 6,263,796 0.05
35 Nashville 1 45 29 75 2,043,713 0.05
36 Greater Los Angeles 5 24 502 531 13,012,469 0.04
37 New York City 7 57 244 308 19,756,722 0.04
38 Greater San Antonio 1 99 56 156 2,612,802 0.04
39 Portland — the Silicon Forest 1 83 39 123 2,510,529 0.04
40 the Research Triangle 1 46 25 72 2,287,314 0.04
41 New England 2 18 91 111 4,917,661 0.04
42 Houston 2 123 177 302 7,274,714 0.03
43 Greater Atlanta 2 131 87 220 6,176,937 0.03
44 Greater Chicago 3 100 116 219 9,359,555 0.03
45 Philadelphia 2 83 161 246 6,241,882 0.03
46 Dallas 1 119 102 222 5,252,554 0.02
47 Detroit 1 39 61 101 4,367,620 0.02
48 Boulder 0 8 8 16 328,317 0.00
49 Youngstown 0 29 5 34 428,430 0.00
What "commercial" means here: Split on scheduled_service, not the airport size field alone -- 141 of the 15,254 small-airport-type fields nationally and 7 of the 8,220 heliports actually carry real scheduled passenger service, so classifying by type alone would misfile real regional commercial airports as private and vice versa. Large + medium + small airport types with scheduled service are counted as Commercial; the same types without it are Small/Private. Heliports are shown as their own column regardless of scheduled-service status, since almost none carry it (7 of 8,220). Ranked by commercial airports per 100,000 residents, not raw count -- a large county with zero commercial airports still ranks below a small one with even a single scheduled field, since the rate is what actually answers "does this place have real air access." No drone data is on file at all -- the FAA drone registry has never been ingested, so this report is airports and heliports only.