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About 13.4 million children under the age of 18 live in rural areas of the nation. [12] Children in rural areas had lower rates of poverty than those in urban areas (18.9 percent compared with 22.3 percent), but more of them were uninsured (7.3 percent compared with 6.3 percent). A higher percentage of "own children" in rural areas lived in ...
The rural farming community of Plains is most famous for being the birthplace of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. ... No list of small towns would be complete without at ...
The fast pace, noise and density of a major metro area sends some of us in search of more land, quiet evenings and uncrowded streets. Almost every destination on this list has doubled its ...
The pandemic brought us the work-from-home trend, which enabled many people to move to smaller cities or even rural towns. The ability to work from anywhere with a solid internet connection has...
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. [1] Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements.
Since then, Kedgwick in New Brunswick changed to rural community status [2] and New Norway in Alberta dissolved to become an unincorporated hamlet, [3] while both Hepburn and Pense in Saskatchewan changed to town status. [4] Saskatchewan has the greatest number of villages at 264. [4] [5]
Many of these rural communities are stepping up to attract digital nomads, offering a blend of lower-cost living, accessible amenities, award-winning school systems, and small-town charm.
Government in rural regions is becoming increasingly consolidated, so that a small number of towns are centers of government activity, while the rest are devoid of government infrastructure. These centers include state and local capitals, and areas with prisons or military bases.