2022年12月29日 · The rural population — the population in any areas outside of those classified as urban — increased as a percentage of the national population from 19.3% in 2010 to 20.0% in 2020. This is not a sign of substantial urban to rural migration – these shifts in proportions are largely the result of changes to the criteria.

2024年12月16日 · 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.

2022年8月31日 · Here's a closer look at our country's smaller towns and cities—what the 2010 Census revealed and how the 2020 Census can help shape the next 10 years. *The U.S. Census Bureau defines as rural any population, housing, or territory not in an urban area. So what is an urban area? It's a densely developed area with at least 2,500 people.

U.S. rural population for 2022 was 56,376,192, a 0.87% decline from 2021. U.S. rural population for 2021 was 56,870,028, a 1.05% decline from 2020. U.S. rural population for 2020 was 57,473,509, a 0.21% decline from 2019. Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices.

World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.

The United States covers 3,533,038 square miles, with a 2022 estimated population of 333,287,557 people – 46,108,315 living in rural areas (USDA-ERS).

2024年12月23日 · With a population of 81.7 million people, 24.4 percent of the U.S. population lives in DTS-defined rural areas. [3] The rural population is widely distributed, as shown in Figure 1. Massachusetts is the most urbanized state, with only …

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 ...

2025年1月5日 · The Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America provides statistics by broad categories of socioeconomic factors: People: Demographic data from the American Community Survey (ACS), including age, race and ethnicity, migration and immigration, education, household size, and family composition.

The LAUS program is a hierarchy of non-survey methodologies used to replicate for roughly 7,600 subnational areas the household employment and unemployment concepts of the Current Population Survey (CPS), which is the source of the U.S. unemployment rate. The unemployment rate is a direct measure of slack in the supply of labor.