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

The second most popular type of activity in the informal economy was home repair or improvement, with 33% of rural respondents saying that they participated in home repairs and 25% of metropolitan ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The urban-rural gap in MPCE has narrowed to 71 per cent in 2022-23 from 84 per cent in 2011-12 For a better experience, Read this story in our App SENSEX 83,755.87 ...

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.

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 ...