• Organization: Department of Agriculture
• Updated: 2019-10-24

The 2013 Urban Influence Codes form a classification scheme that distinguishes metropolitan counties by population size of their metro area, and nonmetropolitan counties by size of the largest...

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• Organization: Department of Agriculture
• Updated: 2019-10-25

The 2013 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes form a classification scheme that distinguishes metropolitan counties by the population size of their metro area, and nonmetropolitan counties by degree of...

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• Organization: Department of Agriculture
• Updated: 2019-08-20

The creative class thesis—that towns need to attract engineers, architects, artists, and people in other creative occupations to compete in today's economy—may be particularly relevant to rural...

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• Organization: Department of Agriculture
• Updated: 2019-10-23

An area's economic and social characteristics have significant effects on its development and need for various types of public programs. To provide policy-relevant information about diverse county...

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• Organization: Department of Agriculture
• Updated: 2019-10-24

The rural-urban commuting area codes (RUCA) classify U.S. census tracts using measures of urbanization, population density, and daily commuting from the decennial census. The most recent RUCA...

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• Organization: Department of Agriculture
• Updated: 2019-08-20

Frontier and Remote Area (FAR) codes provide a statistically-based, nationally-consistent, and adjustable definition of territory in the U.S. characterized by low population density and high...

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• Organization: Department of Agriculture
• Updated: 2020-05-13

State fact sheets provide information on population, income, education, employment, federal funds, organic agriculture, farm characteristics, farm financial indicators, top commodities, and...

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