Rural areas within metropolitan counties encompass a wide variety of landscapes and settle-ment patterns—from sparsely populated desert lands within large metropolitan counties in the …
Rural-Urban Commuting Area codes (RUCA) framework. VHA, and thus ORH, determine rurality based on RUCA codes, which use population density and commuting patterns to assign these …
Overview of Rural Definitions While there are multiple ways to define a geographical area, such as a borough, independent city, or township, the majority of urban/rural definitions are based …
Rural Definitions: Data Documentation and Methods Identifying Nine Rural Definitions The rural definitions presented here are based on four sources described in detail below: Census …
On average, rural places lag behind non-rural places on nearly every measure of economic well-being from poverty rates to labor force participation. The average poverty rate in rural areas is …
Locale Classifications and Criteria The NCES locale framework is composed of four basic types (City, Suburban, Town, and Rural) that each contains three subtypes. It relies on standard …
Rural is an inexact term that can mean different things to different people, organizations and governments. Trying to define what "rural" is, in a nation of diverse geography, can be a …
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