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 ...

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 ...

Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. In this episode, Claire Burke and Claire Schnatterbeck investigate ...

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 U.S. Census Bureau has designed a multimedia application experience, a story map, called "Rural America: How Does the U.S. Census Bureau Define 'Rural?" This story map contains interactive web ...

Discussion of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in rural America requires an understanding of how rural America is defined in federal, state, local, and societal terms ...

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 ...