There is no standard definition of “rural” and whether you live in a rural area depends on who you ask. This makes defining rurality complicated and has real impacts on both our understanding ...

Rural Life Is Rural America Struggling? It Depends on How You Define ‘Rural’ The Office of Budget and Management will release a new list of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties based on data from ...

Firstly, what exactly constitutes rural and urban areas is important. A natural definition of rurality is to define it by ...

Monitoring and improving rural health is challenging because of varied and conflicting concepts of just what rural means. Federal, state, and local agencies and data resources use different ...

Re: “Seattle needs a new Sea-Tac-sized airport. No one wants it near them” : Although the story pulled at the heartstrings of people who care about rural life and family farms, it did a ...

Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. In this episode, Claire Burke and Claire Schnatterbeck investigate ...

This is the first of a three-part series on rural health and the unique challenges that have historically been difficult to overcome.

Opinion Katie Grenon: Rural Vermonters define educational equity From the horse’s mouth: There should be no forced consolidation of Vermont’s community elementary schools. April 7, 2025, 7:01 am ...

The Census actually doesn't have a proper definition for rural and just considers every area that isn't an "urban area" with 50,000 or more residents "rural." To the Census Bureau, any area that ...

My friends and small business owners in rural Wisconsin illustrate how our political leaders are leaving “the little guy” behind in the 2024 election.

An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue We say very clearly that rural America is hurting. But we refuse to justify attitudes that some scholars try to underplay.