Urban Vs Rural areas of USA

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Urban VS rural

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It explores the attitudes and experiences of Americans in urban, suburban, and rural areas, including their views on key social and political issues, how they see people in other types of communities, and how they’re living out their lives in their local communities. The survey sheds light on what divides and unites Americans across community types as well as on differences within urban, suburban, and rural areas – sometimes driven by partisanship, sometimes by demographics. The study also includes a detailed analysis of demographic trends in urban, rural, and suburban counties.

The classification based on counties used in the analysis of census data makes it more challenging to speak to the specific localities where Americans live, but it has the advantage of allowing for the data to be more easily linked among government data sources to analyze changes over time across the country.

The analysis of how urban, suburban, and rural communities are changing along demographic line, based on U.S. Census Bureau data, relies on county-level classifications created by the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In determining how to draw the lines between “urban,” “suburban” and “rural” communities, Pew Research Center consulted a series of social scientists with expertise in this area.

“How would you describe the community where you currently live?"

The reserch

In exploring the attitudes, experiences and changing demographics of Americans in different types of communities, the report relies on two distinct approaches to defining urban, suburban, and rural areas. For the analysis of findings from the new Pew Research Center survey, references to urban, suburban, and rural communities are based on respondents’ answer to the following question:

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1,969 counties are located in non-metropolitan areas. These communities, with a median population size of 16,535.

1,093 counties, sometimes called “suburbs”, include those outside the core cities of the largest metro areas, as well as the entirety of other metropolitan areas. This group includes “large fringe metro,” “medium metro” and “small metro” counties in the NCHS classification system.

68 counties – for example, Miami-Dade County, Milwaukee County and San Diego County – are located in the 53 U.S. metropolitan areas with at least a million people. In the NCHS classification system they are called “large central metro” counties.

Definitions

Rural counties

Suburban counties

Urban counties

Flow of internal migration in the last decade

On the flip side, the majority of rural counties now have fewer U.S.-born residents than in 2000, a key factor in their dwindling populations. A third major population driver the aging of the giant Baby Boom generation also has varying impacts on different county types. Rural areas have a higher share of adults who are ages 65 and older than urban or suburban counties. But suburban counties have experienced the sharpest increases in the number of older adults since 2000.

The flow of people in and out of different types of U.S. counties is affecting their size and composition. Since 2000, more people left rural counties for urban, suburban or small metro counties than moved in from those areas. Because there were not enough new immigrants to offset those departures, rural counties as a group grew only because they had more births than deaths. Another key demographic trend, the rise in immigration in recent decades, has raised the foreign-born share of the U.S. population overall and has increased the share in each type of county, although to varying degrees. Immigrants, along with their children and grandchildren, have accounted for the majority of U.S. population growth since 1965. But immigrants are more concentrated in cities and suburbs than in rural areas.

Population in urban and rural areas

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Urban counties

live in rural areas

live in urban areas

live in suburban areas

14%

55%

Texas

Montana

New York

31%

(Of the total population)

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38%

31%

47%

45%

62%

54%

Urban and rural communities are becoming increasingly different from each other politically. Adults in urban counties, long aligned with the Democratic Party, have moved even more to the left in recent years, and today twice as many urban voters identify as Democrats or lean Democratic as affiliate with the Republican Party. Rural adults have moved more firmly into the Republican camp. More than half (54%) of rural voters now identify with or lean to the Republican, while 38% are Democrats or lean Democratic.

political trends

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Population in poverty

23

15

16

12

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significant gaps in measures of economic well-being

In addition to the divergent demographic trends taking place in urban, suburban, and rural communities, the analysis finds that rural counties lag behind their urban and suburban counterparts when it comes to some measures related to economic well-being. The average earnings per worker in urban areas were $49,515 in 2016, followed by $46,081 in the suburbs and $35,171 in rural areas, though these figures don’t account for differences in living costs across county types. And while the number of employed adults ages 25 to 54 rose in urban and suburban counties since 2000, it declined in rural counties overall. When it comes to the number of people living in poverty, however, the suburbs have seen much sharper increases since 2000 than urban or rural counties – a 51% increase, compared with 31% in cities and 23% in rural areas. Overall, the poverty rate is somewhat higher in rural (18%) and urban (17%) areas than in suburban (14%) counties.

Montana

Montana spans more than 147,000 square miles and has an estimated population of 1.06 million people (according to 2018 Census estimates). About 44 percent or 470,000 live in rural areas of the state. The majority of Montana’s geographic area is defined by the Census Bureau as "rural" meaning most population centers have fewer than 2,500 people.

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The heat map indcate the urban areas of Texas

Texas

Texas is still the nation’s clear-cut No. 1 for the largest rural population. But it also has the second-highest urban population of 24,400,697, behind California and ahead of Florida. As a percentage of overall population, Texas is 83.7% urban, making it the nation’s 15th most urban. Of the 36 new urban areas that were previously classified as rural in 2010, Texas is home to two that are master-planned communities Heartland in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and Sonterra. In comparison, 114 communities considered urban in 2010 are now rural. Texas is so big it’s both “urban” and “rural”. The data released Dec. 29 lists Houston as the fifth-most populous urban area in the U.S. with 5,853,575 residents, a land area of 1,752.69 square miles and a population density of 3,340. The distinction between rural and urban is important. The designation is key for determining federal funding eligibility from everything from agriculture and health care to schools and transit. Rural Texas leans Republican while Texas’ biggest cities. lean Democratic.

The New York metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 20.1 million residents, or slightly over 6% of the nation's total population.New York metropolitan area continues to be the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States, \having the largest foreign-born population of any metropolitan region in the world. The New York metropolitan region is ethnically diverse.The New York borough of Queens is home to the state's largest Asian American population and the largest Andean (Colombian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Chilean and Bolivian) populations in the United States, and is also the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.

The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass.The New York metropolitan area is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world,the world's largest metropolitan area by size, and the only U.S. metropolitan area larger than twenty million residents as of the 2020 United States census.The phrase "Tri-State area" usually refers to New York / New Jersey / Connecticut, although an increasing number of people who work in New York City commute from Pennsylvania.

New York