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Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it's not because people are leaving. It's just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing th ...
The U.S. Census Bureau is changing the definition of an urban area. It's the biggest change in decades.
Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it’s not because people are leaving. It’s just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing the definition of an urban area. Under the new criteria, more than 1,300 small cities, towns and villages designated urban a decade ago would be considered rural. That matters…
The Census Bureau is switching to housing units instead of people as the basis for calculating what should be an urban area.
That matters because urban and rural areas qualify for different types of federal funding.