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Rates of rural disability range from around 15 percent in the Great Plains to 21 percent in the central South. Data reveal notable differences between rural and urban America.
Some of Utah's rural counties saw the largest population gains since the pandemic, per an Axios analysis of new Census data. Why it matters: Population growth in Utah's rural areas is outpacing ...
Editor’s note: We’ve all heard of the great divide between life in rural and urban America. But what are the factors that contribute to these differences? We asked sociologists, economists ...
Rural Minnesota counties are seeing population growth post-pandemic, while Hennepin and Ramsey counties lost more than 87,000 residents from 2020 to 2023.
The MPCE of the rural population in Gujarat as compared to their urban counterparts is a whopping 74 per cent.
Regarding local-level categorization, approximately 58 percent of the rural population resides in 2,412 wards, 36.1 percent in 664 urban-oriented wards, and five percent in 139 urban wards.
Local government Officials from rural municipalities — which constitute 64% of the state’s total — are on the frontlines of the struggle against population decline.
Pennsylvania’s rural counties population is projected to decline 5.8 percent over the next 30 years, with the state projected to grow 1.6 percent based on increases in urban population.
Growth in some places means population loss in others. More than half of the state's counties lost people between the 2010 and 2020 census surveys. All of them are rural.
Editor's note: We've all heard of the great divide between life in rural and urban America. But what are the factors that contribute to these differences? We asked sociologists, economists ...
More and more people are talking about the ‘rural-urban divide,’ but what does that phrase actually mean? We asked experts from around the country to illustrate the gap in graphs and maps.