The Metropolitan area Iasi is an important area of development in Romania. To characterize the main elements of standard of life were used synthetic indicators in the area, in the constituent settlements, but also in the county of Iasi. In terms of total area, Iasi County is ranked 23rd in the hierarchy of the country, but it is 2nd in terms of total population (1st July 2006), 7th in terms of population of cities and towns, 1st in terms of natural growth, 18th in terms to net nominal average income, but 23rd by the gross domestic product per capita. These indicators point out the development potential of the area and consist of the synthesis of the amount of information discussed and analysed in this paper.