Rural hospitals have been closing, putting emergency care further out of reach, but that’s only one of the heightened ...

Pennsylvania’s rural counties population is projected to decline 5.8 percent over the next 30 years, with the state projected to grow 1.6 percent based on increases in urban population.

Between the two most recent dicennial census surveys, the urban area footprint in the state decreased by 86.17 square miles, but the urban area population increased by more than 662,000.

Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provide a designation that is also based upon the OMB county designations. 17 Similar to the Urban Influence Codes, these codes are categorized by population size and ...

The new criteria for urban areas shift the urban-rural ratio slightly, to 79.6% and 20.4%, respectively. The Census Bureau this year made the biggest modification in decades to the definition of ...

With an aging population and fewer physicians available, the burden on rural communities is set to grow. ... The urban–rural gap in older Americans’ healthy life expectancy.

Rural Minnesota counties are seeing population growth post-pandemic, while Hennepin and Ramsey counties lost more than 87,000 residents from 2020 to 2023. Skip to content All Sections ...

While the daily ebb and flow of people across a city might seem chaotic, new research reveals underlying universal patterns. A study published in the journal Nature Communications by a team led by ...

North Carolina’s population has surged past 11 million, driven by growth in metro areas like Charlotte and Raleigh, but not ...