This article was originally published by Carolina Demography. What determines if an area is rural or not? Why is it relevant to distinguish between urban and rural at all? In this article, we talk ...

Later this year, some of the nation’s most economically successful “rural” counties will be reclassified as metropolitan, moving their populations and economic output from nonmetropolitan to ...

How do you know if you live in the city or the country? For some, any place without a Whole Foods is rural. For others, a stoplight is a harbinger of urban sprawl. The federal government has more than ...

The question before us seems simple enough. Yet the answer is a bit more elusive than it may appear at first glance. At its ...

When is an unincorporated town more rural than urban? In Wisconsin, the answer may depend on whether one lives in Rib Mountain, a suburb of Wausau with a population of just under 7,000 – or Milwaukee, ...

The Health Resources and Services Administration finalized this week its proposal to modify the list of geographic areas considered rural in an effort to extend grant eligibility for hospitals. The ...

After a bit of Twitter conversation about the state of rural America, I’ve completed a new version of my income chart from yesterday. This time I used a population density of 15 per square mile to ...