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The term rural includes all population and territory outside urban areas. The criteria now used to define urban areas represent a significant departure from previous decades. First, population density was the primary statistic used in the delineation of urban areas from 1960 to 2010.
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.
The Census Bureau does not actually define “rural.”. Rather, rural areas include all geographic areas that are not classified as urban. Data from the ACS indi-cate that about 63 million people, or 19 percent of the population, lived in rural areas of the United States in 2018.
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 constitutes those areas.
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.
Rural encompasses all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area. For the 2020 Census, an urban area will comprise a densely settled core of census blocks that meet minimum housing unit density and/or population density requirements.
The U.S. Census Bureau defines rural as what is not urban—that is, after defining individual urban areas, rural is what is left. Other federal agencies and researchers may use a different definition of rural.
The term “rural” conjures widely shared images of farms, ranches, villages, small towns, and open spaces. Yet, when it comes to distinguishing rural from urban places, researchers and policymakers employ a dizzying array of definitions.
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. Their homes and businesses are located very close to one another.
rural towns (places with fewer than 5,000 people and 2,000 housing units), and urban areas with populations ranging up to 50,000 people that are not part of larger labor market areas (metropolitan areas).