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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Rural, by this definition, includes counties with towns smaller than 2,500 people and stand-alone cities with populations less than 50,000. Either definition leaves out wide swaths of counties in ...