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U.S. Bureau of the Census Defines Urban and Rural Areas on the Basis of Housing and Population Density. A very different definition of rural, based on much smaller geographic building blocks, is provided by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in its urban-rural classification system.
About 60 million people, or one in five Americans, live in rural America. The term “rural” means different things to different people. For many, it evokes images of farmlands and pastoral landscapes. For our purposes, we define rural based on the official Census Bureau classification.
Rural areas are any place outside a municipality's urban development (buildings, streets) and it is carried by informal usage. Otherwise, countryside (interior in Portuguese) are officially defined as all municipalities outside the state/territory capital's metropolitan region.
Federal agencies, researchers, and other analysts use two main classification systems to define rural areas: (1) the U.S. Census Bureau’s urban and rural defini-tions, and (2) the Ofice of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area standards.
The Census does not actually define “rural.” “Rural” encompasses all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area. Whatever is not urban is considered rural.
USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) researchers and others who analyze conditions in "rural" America most often study conditions in nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas, defined on the basis of counties.
We define the following areas as rural: Large area Metro census tracts of at least 400 sq. miles in area with population density of 35 or less per sq. mile with RUCA codes 2-3. Beginning with Fiscal Year 2022 Rural Health Grants, we consider all outlying metro counties without a UA to be rural.
A rural area is an open swath of land that has few homes or other buildings, and not very many people. A rural areas population density is very low. Many people live in a city , or urban area .
Incorporating rugged terrain data into the definition of rural area using the adopted method adds 84 census tracts and approximately 305,000 people to the 60.8 million people living in FORHP-designated rural areas. This is an increase of 0.5 percent in the total number of people living in rural areas. Table 1 show the number of newly rural ...
Provides resources, information, and frequently asked questions on the various definitions used to identify rural areas in the United States. Explains how definitions of rural are used, identifies the most common definitions, and discusses differences between definitions.