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Rural area. Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consists of approximately 97% of the United States ' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to ...
The Pennsylvania Dutch region in south-central Pennsylvania is a favorite for sightseers. The Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, and at least 15 other sects are common in the rural areas around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg with smaller populations extending northeast to the Lehigh Valley and up to the Susquehanna Valley.
Wyoming Valley is a region of Northeastern Pennsylvania shaped like a crescent and part of the ridge-and-valley or folded Appalachians, which includes the metropolitan areas of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Consisting of the following counties: Luzerne. Lackawanna. Wyoming.
Part of his 2016 success is attributed to overperforming in rural areas across the state. In Pennsylvania, Trump won rural and small towns with 71%, to Hillary Clinton’s 26%; by comparison, Mitt ...
This year’s state budget addresses some gaps that leaders in rural areas say make it hard to attract and keep people in their communities. What Pennsylvania’s $47.6B budget does for the state ...
Other urban areas, such as Pittsburgh, Erie, Harrisburg, Allentown, and Scranton lean Democratic as well. Like most states, Pennsylvania's rural areas tend to be more conservative and support Republicans. The resulting political map of Pennsylvania is therefore a red "T" in the center of the state with the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas a ...
A farmstead in Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.. Agriculture is a major industry in the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [1] As of the most recent United States Census of Agriculture conducted in 2017, there were 53,157 farms in Pennsylvania, covering an area of 7,278,668 acres (2,945,572 hectares) with an average size of 137 acres (55 hectares) per farm. [2]
Pike County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,535. [1] Its county seat is Milford. [2] The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Pike County is considered a micropolitan area in itself by the United States Census Bureau, known as the Hemlock Farms ...