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Rural Definitions Where does Urban end and Rural begin?
September 10, 2007 /
The classification of people and territory as rural poses a number of challenges for researchers, policy makers, and program managers throughout the Federal system and beyond. Most Americans share a common image of rural—open countryside and small towns at some distance from large urban centers—but disagree on where and how to draw the line between rural and urban. Drawing such a line requires answering two questions:
* At what population threshold do rural places become urban?
* Where along the urban periphery do suburbs give way to rural territory?
Full Story: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/RuralDefinitions/
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