Earlier in 2025, wildfires in southern California killed 30 people, destroyed more than 18,000 homes and burned more than ...

Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where ...

In the past 10 years, population growth in suburban areas has far outpaced population growth in urban areas. While from 2013 ...

For a large number of Indiana’s rural residents, access to specialty care — specifically that for psychiatry and mental ...

A study conducted by the University of Texas at Arlington, released last week, found that more than a third of people in ...

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 ...

It should be noted that our results, like many studies, are describing outcomes on average; the rural population is not a monolith. In fact, some of the most physically active and healthy people ...

Population datasets are often calibrated for urban environments, where population density is high and data is more accessible ...

Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive — despite a shift to urban and suburban counties — but it will take investments.

From 2022 to 2023, 4,500 people left rural counties in Louisiana, accounting for about 77% of the state’s total rural population loss. In 2023, 716 people left St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, which ...

"Let's invest in the communities we want, not just cut taxes for wealthy and then cut spending," said Gbenga Ajilore, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.