In 2018, David Montgomery created an index of how urban or rural congressional districts were for CityLab, now part of Bloomberg.

The statistics ministry plans to release state-level inflation data for individual items in the new Consumer Price Index (CPI ...

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

Retail inflation in rural areas in May stood at 2.59 per cent, while that in urban areas stood at 3.07 per cent ...

Meanwhile, the prevalence of manufactured housing in rural areas means rural residents spend more on heating and cooling more ...

In nominal terms, rural consumer spending climbed 9.55% year on year to 4,122 rupees ($48.23) per month in the year through July from 3,773 rupees the previous year, while urban spending rose 8.31 ...

Rural India, home to nearly two-thirds of the country's 1.4 billion people, is beginning to flex some economic muscle with faster consumer spending growth than in the urban areas, which for years ...

The gap between urban and rural consumption declined to 70% in 2023-24 from 71% in the previous year. The household consumption survey was conducted from August 2023 to July 2024.

Climate Central analyzed the urban heat island (UHI) index in 37,094 census block groups across 65 major U.S. cities in order to understand where urban heat is most intense within each city.

Nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties make up 17 of the top 20 most unhealthy counties in the health outcome index, a CHR&R tool that measures the length and quality of life in a county. In all but two ...

Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provide a designation that is also based upon the OMB county designations. 17 Similar to ... and replacing the second criterion with the use of the rural index score, ...

The urban heat island effect means that city temperatures can be several degrees higher than nearby rural regions. That’s because materials like concrete and asphalt absorb and radiate heat.