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Rural flight (also known as rural-to-urban migration, rural depopulation, or rural exodus) is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban areas.It is urbanization seen from the rural perspective.
Rural poverty refers to situations where people living in non-urban regions are in a state or condition of lacking the financial resources and essentials for living. It takes account of factors of rural society, rural economy, and political systems that give rise to the marginalization and economic disadvantage found there. [1]
The population decline has been broadly attributed to numerous factors, especially changes in agricultural practices, rapid improvements in urban transit and regional connectivity, and a declining rural job market, pushed in part by the 1980s farm crisis.
Johnson, the demographer, said for decades most of the rural decline was driven by rural areas not growing as fast as urban ones, until 2010 to 2020 when the size of the rural population actually ...
Rural population decline, school funding gaps. Population decline in Michigan is a statewide concern. Researchers have noted a pattern of decline concentrated in the Thumb, lower northeastern and ...
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 ...
Counterurbanization is the process by which people migrate from urban to rural communities, the opposite of urbanization. People have moved from urban to rural communities for various reasons, including job opportunities and simpler lifestyles. In recent years, due to technology, the urbanization process has been occurring in reverse.
The right approach to immigration policies could help define the next century of success for Hoosiers in urban and rural communities. Viewpoint: Indiana’s rural population decline is serious ...