causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of 2024 Census estimates. Nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties grew by 134,000 residents between ...

Under the new legislative maps, there are a greater ... the population of majority rural counties grew faster than the population in majority urban counties. Out of Wisconsin’s 72 counties ...

Yet the rate of poverty is significantly higher in rural America than it is in urban America. According to the most recent data from the federal government, in 2018 the poverty rate in metropolitan ...

Called “In Situ Urbanization,” the approach seeks to ensure that the rural population is able to enjoy the same standard of living as the urban population, without the negative side effects of ...