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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 what ...
Between 1880 and 1900, the urban population of the United States rose from 28% to 40%, and reached 50% by 1920, in part due to 9,000,000 European immigrants. After 1890 the US rural population began to plummet, as farmers were displaced by mechanization and forced to migrate to urban factory jobs.
Urban and rural populations in the United States (1790 to 2010) [1] Choropleth map of urban population as percentage of US states and D.C. total population in 2020 The urbanization of the United States has progressed throughout its entire history.
The Southeastern U.S. was responsible for nearly 90% of the population growth that occurred in rural America last year, a Daily Yonder analysis of 2023 Census Bureau data shows.. From 2022 to 2023 ...
States in the South and West tended to grow pretty quickly last year while a handful of states saw their populations shrink.
The rural population is defined by size of place under 2500 and includes non-farmers living in villages and the open countryside. At the first census in 1790, the rural population was 3.7 million and urban only 202,000. The nation was 95% rural, and the great majority of rural residents were subsistence farmers.
The population decreased most over one year in these cities. Spring Valley, Nevada, had the largest one year-drop at -10.14%, after losing just over 22,000 people from 2022 to 2023.
5.1 marriages/1,000 population per year (provisional data for 2020). [91] 6.1 marriages/1,000 population per year (provisional data for 2019). [91] *Rates are based on provisional counts of marriages by state of occurrence In 2009, Time magazine reported that 40% of births were to unmarried women. [93]