Any agency that defines “rural” at the county level (such as the Office of Management and Budget definition) is going to flag Joshua Tree as metropolitan.

Because the Census Bureau does not define rural per se, any tract or block outside of these two urban categories is often considered rural. 12, 13. The Office of Management and Budget ...

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

Because being rural is harder to define. And it’s all kinds of different people that identify as rural. [Schnatterbeck]: Part 2 - The Students [Nick Porsborg]: I never thought that I lived in a small ...

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

While most folks will likely define rural as a place that is smaller than where they live, the Center for Rural Affairs generally defines it as a community with a population of 50,000 or less that ...