1. Start with the Pomona service boundary
Pomona is a CDP in Atlantic County. A firm may serve Pomona alone, other Atlantic County communities, or a wider New Jersey market, but those are different geographic questions. Attribution should preserve the location attached to each inquiry rather than treating every New Jersey contact as a Pomona matter. The population estimate is useful for identifying the place being discussed, not for predicting how many people will contact a lawyer.
Recommended approach
Decide which geographic distinctions matter to intake: Pomona, Atlantic County, other New Jersey locations, or areas outside the firm’s service scope. Ask whether those distinctions should be captured as intake answers, reviewed in case records, or handled by an existing qualification process. Do not use population as a substitute for measuring actual inquiries.
