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USDA Economic Research Service (USDA ERS)

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Anticipates trends and emerging issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America. Conducts economic research on these topics to inform and enhance public and private decision making.
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Community Vitality and Rural Healthcare · Finding Statistics and Data · What is Rural?

Resources (303)

  • About Half of Rural Counties Now Experiencing More Deaths than Births, 01/2018, view details
  • Access to Primary Care Physicians Varies Across United States, 06/2023, view details
  • All Counties with Extreme Poverty in 2018 Were Rural (Nonmetro) Counties, 06/2020, view details
  • Amber Waves, view details
  • America's Eating Habits: Food Away From Home, 09/2018, view details
  • Area and Road Ruggedness Scales, view details
  • As the Rural Veteran Population Declined, the Share That Were Age 65 or Older Increased, 07/2020, view details
  • The Association Between Nutrition Information Use and the Healthfulness of Food Acquisitions, 04/2018, view details
  • Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America, view details
  • Availability of Healthcare Providers in Rural Areas Lags That of Urban Areas, 04/2023, view details
  • Availability of Medical Doctors Favors Metropolitan Areas with Low Rates of Self-Employment, 07/2022, view details
  • Change in U.S. Employment from 12 Months Earlier in Metro and Nonmetro areas, January 2019 to April 2021, 07/2021, view details
  • Characteristics of School Districts Offering Free School Meals to All Students Through the Community Eligibility Provision of the National School Lunch Program, 08/2018, view details
  • Characteristics of the Food Insecure in the U.S., 09/2018, view details
  • Characteristics of U.S. Households with Food-insecure Children, 09/2018, view details
  • Characterizing Rugged Terrain in the United States, 08/2023, view details
  • Child Nutrition Program Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March through September 2020: School Meals Operations Study, Year 1 Report (Final), 05/2023, view details
  • Child Poverty by Race/Ethnicity and Metro/Nonmetro Residence, 2016, 10/2017, view details
  • Child Poverty Heavily Concentrated in Rural Mississippi, Even More So Than Before the Great Recession, 07/2018, view details
  • Child Poverty Rates are Persistently Highest in Rural Counties and in the South, 06/2018, view details
  • Child Poverty Rates by Metro/Nonmetro Residence, 1989-2016, 10/2017, view details
  • Children by Age, Poverty Status, and Metro/Nonmetro Residence, 2016, 10/2017, view details
  • Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit, 07/2002, view details
  • Consecutive Decades of High Poverty Since 1960 in U.S. Counties, 11/2022, view details
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Job Losses Hit Rural Areas Still Recovering From Great Recession, 05/2022, view details
  • Counties Changing Metropolitan (Metro) Status Between 2013 and 2023, 03/2024, view details
  • Counties Where 20 Percent or More of Adults 25-64 Do Not Have a High School Diploma/Equivalent, 2015-19, 04/2021, view details
  • Counties with Continuous High Poverty Since 1960 Are Largely Rural, 12/2022, view details
  • Counties With High Levels of Self-Employed Workers Dominate the Great Plains and Upper Mountain West, 07/2022, view details
  • Counties With High Veteran Poverty Rates Tend to Be Nonmetropolitan, 11/2022, view details
  • Counties with Low Educational Attainment Were Concentrated in Rural Areas, 07/2020, view details
  • The COVID-19 Pandemic and Rural America, 07/2021, view details
  • COVID-19 Vaccinations in Rural America, 01/2022, view details
  • COVID-19 Working Paper: Consumer Food Spending Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 12/2022, view details
  • COVID-19 Working Paper: Meatpacking Working Conditions and the Spread of COVID-19, 09/2021, view details
  • COVID-19 Working Paper: Migration, Local Mobility, and the Spread of COVID-19 in Rural America, 11/2022, view details
  • COVID-19 Working Paper: Obesity Prevalence Among U.S. Adult Subpopulations During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 07/2023, view details
  • Cumulative Confirmed COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 Residents by County Economic Type and Metro Status on June 7, 2021, 07/2021, view details
  • Cumulative Confirmed COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 Residents by County on June 7, 2021, 07/2021, view details
  • Cumulative Confirmed COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 Residents in Metro and Nonmetro Areas, March 1, 2020 to June 7, 2021, 07/2021, view details
  • Daily Access to Local Foods for School Meals: Key Drivers, 03/2017, view details
  • Data for Rural Analysis, view details
  • Data Show U.S. Poverty Rates in 2019 Higher in Rural Areas than in Urban for Racial/Ethnic Groups, 08/2021, view details
  • Deep Poverty Rates by Metro/Nonmetro Residence, 1989-2016, 10/2017, view details
  • The Differences in Characteristics Among Households With and Without Obese Children: Findings From USDA's FoodAPS, 09/2017, view details
  • Disabilities in the U.S. Farm Population, 04/2019, view details
  • Disability and Poverty Rates among Rural Veterans Have Increased from 2008 to 2014, 11/2015, view details
  • A Disaggregated View of Market Concentration in the Food Retail Industry, 01/2023, view details
  • Disparities in Educational Attainment by Race, Ethnicity Persist in Rural America, 02/2021, view details
  • Domestic Migration Patterns Foster Strong Ties Between Many Nonmetro and Metro Areas, 01/2023, view details
  • Educational Attainment Improved in Rural America but Educational Gap with Urban Areas Grew for Bachelor's Degrees and Higher, 03/2023, view details
  • Educational Attainment in Rural and Urban Areas, 2000 and 2019, 04/2021, view details
  • Elder Veterans Tend to Reside in Rural Counties and Near Military Bases, 07/2018, view details
  • Employment Change in Nonmetro Counties, 2017-18, 07/2019, view details
  • Employment Has Grown Faster in Metropolitan Than Nonmetro Counties Since the Great Recession, 11/2019, view details
  • Employment in Rural Inpatient Healthcare Facilities Was Relatively More Concentrated in the Upper Midwest and Northern Great Plains, 03/2018, view details
  • Employment Spillover Effects of Rural Inpatient Healthcare Facilities, 12/2017, view details
  • Enduring Poverty Counties, 2015–19, 11/2022, view details
  • ERS County-level Data Sets, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Alabama, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Alaska, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Arizona, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Arkansas, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: California, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Colorado, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Connecticut, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Delaware, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Florida, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Georgia, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Hawaii, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Idaho, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Illinois, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Indiana, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Iowa, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Kansas, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Kentucky, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Louisiana, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Maine, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Maryland, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Massachusetts, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Michigan, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Minnesota, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Mississippi, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Missouri, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Montana, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Nebraska, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Nevada, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: New Hampshire, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: New Jersey, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: New Mexico, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: New York, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: North Carolina, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: North Dakota, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Ohio, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Oklahoma, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Oregon, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Pennsylvania, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Rhode Island, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: South Carolina, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: South Dakota, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Tennessee, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Texas, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Utah, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Vermont, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Virginia, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Washington, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: West Virginia, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Wisconsin, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Wyoming, view details
  • ERS State Fact Sheets, view details
  • Extreme Poverty Counties Found Solely in Rural Areas in 2018, 05/2020, view details
  • Farm Households Reported That Working Off the Farm Provided Greater and More Stable Income, Along with Health and Retirement Benefits, 06/2020, view details
  • Food Access Research Atlas, view details
  • Food and Nutrition Assistance Research Reports Database, 2018, view details
  • Food Choices and Store Proximity, 09/2015, view details
  • Food Environment Atlas, view details
  • Food Insecurity Among Children Most Prevalent Among Single-Mother Households and Low-Income Households in 2018, 04/2020, view details
  • Food Insecurity Among Working-Age Veterans, 05/2021, view details
  • The Food Retail Landscape Across Rural America, 06/2021, view details
  • Food Security Among Hispanic Adults in the United States, 2011-2014, 05/2016, view details
  • Food Security in the U.S., view details
  • Food-Related Data Sources, view details
  • The Food-Spending Patterns of Households Participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Findings From USDA's FoodAPS, 08/2017, view details
  • Foundation Giving to Rural Areas in the United States Is Disproportionately Low, 08/2015, view details
  • Foundation Grants to Rural Areas from 2005 to 2010: Trends and Patterns, 06/2015, view details
  • Frontier and Remote Area Codes: Data Set, view details
  • Health Care Access Among Self-Employed Workers in Nonmetropolitan Counties, 05/2022, view details
  • Health Status and Health Care Access of Farm and Rural Populations, 08/2009, view details
  • Healthcare Professionals Seek Social Connections When Moving to Rural Towns, 05/2023, view details
  • High and Extreme Poverty Census Tracts Within and Outside of High Poverty Counties, 2015–19, 11/2022, view details
  • High Child Poverty Rates are Prevalent in the Rural South, 06/2018, view details
  • High Rates of Disability Among Farmers Are Concentrated in the South, 06/2019, view details
  • Highest U.S. Poverty Rates Are in the South, with over 20 Percent Poor in Its Rural Areas, 03/2020, view details
  • Household Food Insecurity Across Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 2016–21, 04/2024, view details
  • Household Food Security in the United States in 2014, 09/2015, view details
  • Household Food Security in the United States in 2015, 09/2016, view details
  • Household Food Security in the United States in 2016, 09/2017, view details
  • Household Food Security in the United States in 2017, 09/2018, view details
  • Household Food Security in the United States in 2018, 09/2019, view details
  • Household Food Security in the United States in 2019, 09/2020, view details
  • Household Food Security in the United States in 2022, 10/2023, view details
  • Households in Rural Communities with Persistent Poverty Have Less Access to Internet at Home, 08/2022, view details
  • Impact of USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Rural and Urban Economies in the Aftermath of the Great Recession, 10/2021, view details
  • Impacts of Regional Approaches to Rural Development: Initial Evidence on the Delta Regional Authority, 06/2011, view details
  • The Impacts of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Redemptions on County-Level Employment, 05/2019, view details
  • Improving Rural Net Migration Rates Were Most Common in Recreation and Retirement Destinations, 03/2019, view details
  • In 2015, Annual Earnings in Rural Areas Were 15 Percent Lower than Earnings in Urban Areas, 06/2017, view details
  • In 2016-17, the Rural Population Increased for the First Time This Decade, Due to Lower Population Loss from Net Migration, 11/2018, view details
  • In Rural Areas, Population Gains from Net Migration Have Exceeded Losses from Natural Decrease, 11/2023, view details
  • In Rural Areas, Single-Parent Families Have Higher Poverty Rates than Families Headed by Married Couples, 02/2019, view details
  • Increased Migration from Urban Areas Spurs Rural Population Growth, While Urban Migration Growth Is International, 03/2024, view details
  • Increasing Rates of Nonmetro Net Migration Offset by Reductions in Natural Change, 07/2020, view details
  • Independent Grocery Stores in the Changing Landscape of the U.S. Food Retail Industry, 11/2017, view details
  • The Influence of Food Store Access on Grocery Shopping and Food Spending, 10/2017, view details
  • Inpatient Healthcare Facilities Had Modest Employment Gains in Rural Areas, Despite the Effects of the Great Recession, 12/2017, view details
  • Labor Force Participation Decreased Less in Rural Areas Than in Urban Areas at the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic, 05/2022, view details
  • Lack of Health Insurance Coverage Among Employed Individuals Increased As the COVID-19 Pandemic Intensified, 07/2022, view details
  • Less Internet Access Available for Rural Residents in Counties with Persistent Poverty in the U.S. Deep South and Southwest, 01/2022, view details
  • Linkages Between Rural Community Capitals and Healthcare Provision: A Survey of Small Rural Towns in Three U.S. Regions, 03/2023, view details
  • Low Education Rural Counties Have Worse Economic Outcomes on Average than Other Rural Counties, 08/2017, view details
  • Low-Income and Low-Supermarket-Access Census Tracts, 2010-2015, 01/2017, view details
  • Low-Income Areas With Low Supermarket Access Increased in Urban Areas, But Not in Rural Areas, Between 2010 and 2015, 04/2017, view details
  • Many American Indians and Alaska Natives Are Concentrated in High Poverty Rural Areas, 11/2022, view details
  • Measuring Access to Healthful, Affordable Food in American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Areas, 12/2014, view details
  • Measuring the Food Access Gap in Native American Tribal Areas, 12/2015, view details
  • The Meatpacking Industry in Rural America During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 05/2021, view details
  • Metropolitan (Metro) and Nonmetropolitan (Nonmetro) Counties, 2023, 03/2024, view details
  • Metropolitan (Metro) Counties, Nonmetropolitan (Nonmetro) Counties, and Urban Areas, 2023, 03/2024, view details
  • Metropolitan (Metro), Nonmetropolitan (Nonmetro)-Micropolitan (Micro), and Nonmetro-Noncore Counties, 2023, 03/2024, view details
  • Modest Improvement in Nonmetro Population Change During the Decade Masks Larger Geographic Shifts, 07/2020, view details
  • More COVID-19 Cases per Capita in U.S. Metro than Nonmetro Areas, but the Share of Cases in Nonmetro Areas Is Increasing, 10/2020, view details
  • Mortality Rates Have Increased for Working-age Rural Adults Since 2000, 12/2017, view details
  • Most Nonmetro Counties Had Fewer than 5 Restaurant Options per 1,000 People in 2019, 04/2023, view details
  • The Most Rural Counties Have the Fewest Health Care Services Available, 08/2022, view details
  • Natural Decrease Counties, Before and After 2010, 04/2018, view details
  • The Nature of the Rural-Urban Mortality Gap, 03/2024, view details
  • Nearly Half of U.S. States Lost Population in Rural Areas in 2010-20, According to U.S. Census Data, 11/2021, view details
  • Net Migration Spurs Renewed Growth in Rural Areas of the United States, 02/2024, view details
  • New County Patterns of U.S. Hispanic Population Change Emerge, 2015, view details
  • New COVID-19 Cases since March 1, 2020: Comparing Rural Counties with 20 Percent or More Employment in Meatpacking to All Other Rural Counties in the United States, 05/2021, view details
  • Nonmetro Hispanics Tend to Be Younger than Non-Hispanics, 09/2015, view details
  • Nonmetro Population Change, 2010-17, 04/2018, view details
  • Nonmetro Population Change and Components of Change, 1976-2017, 04/2018, view details
  • Nonmetro Population Change Has Remained Near Zero in Recent Years, 10/2020, view details
  • Nonmetro Population Change Varies Across the United States, 02/2024, view details
  • Nonmetro Poverty Rates Remain Higher than Metro, 02/2024, view details
  • Nonmetro Unemployment Rates Have Declined, but Remain Highest for Adults with the Lowest Levels of Education, 10/2015, view details
  • The Number and Share of Veterans Living in Rural America Is Declining, 05/2016, view details
  • Number of Counties in Persistent Poverty Falls from a Decade Ago, 12/2023, view details
  • The Opioid Epidemic: A Geography in Two Phases, 04/2021, view details
  • Per Capita SNAP Redemptions in 2010 Were Particularly Large in High-Poverty Rural Regions, 05/2019, view details
  • Persistent Poverty Counties and Census Tracts, 2015–19, 11/2022, view details
  • Persistent Rural Child Poverty is Also Concentrated in the South, 06/2018, view details
  • Persistently Poor Rural Counties Experienced Lower Employment Impacts From the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic but Have Higher Cumulative COVID-19 Case Rates, 02/2022, view details
  • Population Change, 2001-08, 04/2018, view details
  • Population Change, 2010-17, 04/2018, view details
  • Population Change by County Type, 2001-08 and 2010-17, 04/2018, view details
  • Population Change by County's Place on the Rural-Urban Continuum, 2001-08 and 2010-17, 04/2018, view details
  • Population Change by Metro/Nonmetro Status, 1976-2017, 04/2018, view details
  • Poverty and Deep Poverty Increasing in Rural America, 03/2014, view details
  • Poverty and Employment Indicators for Nonmetro Counties by Educational Attainment, 2009-14, 01/2016, view details
  • Poverty Area Measures, view details
  • Poverty Rates by Age Group and Metro/Nonmetro Residence, 2019, 06/2021, view details
  • Poverty Rates by Family Type and Metro/Nonmetro Residence, 2019, 06/2021, view details
  • Poverty Rates by Metro/Nonmetro Residence, 1959-2019, 06/2021, view details
  • Poverty Rates by Race/Ethnicity and Metro/Nonmetro Residence, 2019, 06/2021, view details
  • Poverty Rates by Region and Metro/Nonmetro Status, 2015-19 Average, 06/2021, view details
  • Poverty Rates in 2017 Were Highest for Children, Particularly Among Those Living in Rural Areas, 11/2019, view details
  • Poverty Rates in Rural and Urban Areas Vary Across U.S. Regions, 04/2019, view details
  • Prevalence of Food Insecurity, by Selected Household Characteristics, 2021 and 2022, 10/2023, view details
  • Prevalence of Food Insecurity Varied by Household Characteristics in 2017, 10/2018, view details
  • Prevalence of Very Low Food Security, by Selected Household Characteristics, 2021 and 2022, 10/2023, view details
  • Price Variability Across Food Product and Vendor Type in Food Benefit Redemptions Under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), 07/2018, view details
  • Race and Ethnicity of Rural Labor Force Vary by Industry, 02/2023, view details
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Educational Attainment Persist in Rural America, 11/2020, view details
  • Racial and Ethnic Minorities Made Up 22 Percent of the Rural Population in 2017 Compared to 42 Percent in Urban Areas, 05/2019, view details
  • Racial and Ethnic Minorities Made Up About 22 Percent of the Rural Population in 2018, Compared to 43 Percent in Urban Areas, 10/2020, view details
  • Related Child Poverty by Family Type and Metro/Nonmetro Residence, 2016, 10/2017, view details
  • Rural America at a Glance: 2023 Edition, 11/2023, view details
  • Rural Areas Experienced Renewed Population Growth Following the COVID-19 Pandemic, 02/2024, view details
  • Rural Areas Lag Urban Areas in College Completion, 12/2014, view details
  • Rural Areas Show Overall Population Decline and Shifting Regional Patterns of Population Change, 09/2017, view details
  • Rural Child Poverty Was Most Concentrated in the Mississippi Delta, 04/2018, view details
  • Rural Classifications, view details
  • Rural Counties Losing All Types of Grocery Stores Except National Chains, 12/2021, view details
  • Rural Counties Losing Share of Grocery Stores, Gaining Other Types of Food Retailers, 12/2021, view details
  • Rural Counties With High and Persistent Poverty in 2019 Were Mostly Located Across the South, 08/2021, view details
  • Rural Data Sources, view details
  • Rural Death Rates from COVID-19 Surpassed Urban Death Rates in Early September 2020, 03/2021, view details
  • Rural Development Telecom Awards, 2012-17, 02/2019, view details
  • Rural Education At A Glance, 2017 Edition, 04/2017, view details
  • Rural Education Levels Are Increasing, but Still Lag Behind Urban Areas, 10/2018, view details
  • Rural Employment and Unemployment, view details
  • Rural Employment Has Returned to Pre-COVID-19 Pandemic Level, 02/2024, view details
  • Rural Employment in Recession and Recovery, 10/2014, view details
  • Rural Families Headed by Single Adults Had Higher Poverty Rates Than Urban Counterparts in 2017, 05/2019, view details
  • The Rural Food-Away-from-Home Landscape, 1990–2019, 03/2023, view details
  • Rural Households Account for Nearly One-fifth of U.S. Food-insecure Households, 12/2017, view details
  • Rural Individuals' Telehealth Practices: An Overview, 11/2018, view details
  • Rural Job Growth Has Shifted Toward High-skill Workers Since 2001, 01/2023, view details
  • Rural Median Household Income Remains About 25 Percent Below the Urban Median, 07/2017, view details
  • Rural Population and Migration, view details
  • Rural Population Change Varies Across the United States, 06/2017, view details
  • Rural Population Gains Among Native Americans and Hispanics Have Offset Population Losses Among Whites and Blacks, 07/2019, view details
  • Rural Population Trends, 02/2019, view details
  • Rural Poverty Has Distinct Regional and Racial Patterns, 08/2021, view details
  • Rural Poverty Is Regionally Concentrated, and Expanded since the Great Recession to 71 New High-poverty Counties, 01/2018, view details
  • Rural Poverty Rates Dropped Across All Race/Ethnicity Groups Between 2013 and 2018, 08/2020, view details
  • Rural Poverty Remains Regionally Concentrated, 06/2018, view details
  • Rural Poverty & Well-being, view details
  • Rural Residents Appear to be More Vulnerable to Serious Infection or Death From Coronavirus COVID-19, 02/2021, view details
  • Rural Residents with Higher Educational Attainment Were More Likely to Engage in Telehealth Activities, 11/2018, view details
  • Rural School Districts Less Likely to Serve Local Food Frequently in School Meals, 04/2017, view details
  • Rural Telehealth Participation Rates Vary by the Activity, 04/2019, view details
  • Rural Unemployment Rates Declined for All Education Levels from 2010 to 2015, 2017, view details
  • Rural Veteran Population Continues to Decline Despite Rise in Post-9/11 Veterans, 11/2017, view details
  • Rural Young Women Show Increases in Higher Educational Attainment Compared to Rural Young Men, 10/2022, view details
  • Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) Codes, view details
  • Rural-Urban Continuum Codes, view details
  • Rural-Urban Earnings Gap by Educational Attainment, 2019, 04/2021, view details
  • 'Rurality' of Nonmetropolitan Counties Varies Across Regions, 04/2024, view details
  • Schools Vary - And That Means Meal Costs Vary Too, 12/2015, view details
  • Selected Charts from Ag and Food Statistics: Charting the Essentials, 2024, 02/2024, view details
  • Self-Employed Workers Are Less Likely To Have Health Insurance Than Those Employed by Private Firms, Governments, 07/2022, view details
  • Self-Employed Workers Were Covered More Widely Across Health Insurance Sources, but Many Remained Uninsured, 08/2022, view details
  • The Share of Households With Wired Broadband Remains Below 60 Percent in Nearly 800 Rural Counties, Mostly in Poor and Remote Regions, 11/2017, view details
  • Share of Limited-service Restaurants in Rural Counties Doubled from 1990 to 2019, 04/2023, view details
  • The Share of SNAP Households That Live Far from a Supermarket or Large Grocery Store Varies by County, 11/2017, view details
  • Share of Working-Age Population in Nonmetro Areas Declined from 2010 to 2020, 11/2022, view details
  • SNAP Redemptions Contributed to Employment During the Great Recession, 05/2019, view details
  • SNAP Spending Contributed to Rural Economic Output and Jobs Following the Great Recession, 02/2022, view details
  • Social Connections Drive Healthcare Professionals to Locate to and Stay in Rural Towns, 06/2023, view details
  • Super Stores' Impact on the Availability of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Approved Stores, 06/2021, view details
  • Three USDA Rural Broadband Programs: Areas and Populations Served, 10/2023, view details
  • U.S. County Unemployment Rates During the Week of March 12, 2021, 07/2021, view details
  • U.S. Employment in Metro and Nonmetro Areas, 2007–22, 11/2023, view details
  • U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratios, Metro and Nonmetro Areas, 2008-17, 07/2019, view details
  • U.S. Labor Force Participation Rates in Metro and Nonmetro Areas by Age Groups, 2007 and 2019–22, 11/2023, view details
  • U.S. Monthly Unemployment Rates in Metro and Nonmetro Areas, January 2007 to April 2021, 07/2021, view details
  • U.S. Population Subgroups See Changes in Food Insecurity from 2019 to 2020 While Overall Rate Remains the Same, 12/2021, view details
  • U.S. Unemployment Rates by County Economic Type and Metro Status, Week Including March 12, 2021, 07/2021, view details
  • U.S. Unemployment Rates for the Prime-Working-Age Population (Ages 25 to 54) in Metro and Nonmetro Areas by Race/Ethnicity, 2007 and 2019–22, 11/2023, view details
  • Understanding Low-Income and Low-Access Census Tracts Across the Nation: Subnational and Subpopulation Estimates of Access to Healthy Food, 05/2019, view details
  • Understanding the Geography of Growth in Rural Child Poverty, 07/2015, view details
  • Understanding the Prevalence, Severity, and Distribution of Food Insecurity in the United States, 09/2017, view details
  • Understanding the Rise in Rural Child Poverty, 2003-14, 05/2016, view details
  • Understanding Trends in Rural Child Poverty, 2003-14, 05/2016, view details
  • Unemployment Rate for Rural Veterans at Its Lowest since Before the Great Recession, 11/2018, view details
  • Unemployment Rates are Again at Pre-Pandemic Levels in Rural Counties, Still Higher in Persistently Poor Urban Counties, 01/2022, view details
  • Unemployment Rates Have Recovered to Pre-pandemic Levels but Remain Higher in Persistently Poor Rural and Urban Counties, 03/2023, view details
  • Updated ERS County Economic Types Show a Changing Rural Landscape, 12/2015, view details
  • Urban Areas Offer Higher Earnings for Workers with Higher Levels of Education, 09/2018, view details
  • Urban Areas Offer Higher Earnings for Workers With More Education, 07/2017, view details
  • Urban Influence Codes, view details
  • Urban Influence Codes: Documentation, view details
  • USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Contributed to Rural Economic Output, Jobs Following the Great Recession, 12/2021, view details
  • Using the ERS County Economic Types To Explore Demographic and Economic Trends in Rural Areas, 12/2016, view details
  • Utilizing the USDA's National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey to Calculate a Household-Level Food Environment Measure, 03/2024, view details
  • Vaccination Rates are Higher in U.S. Metro than in Nonmetro Counties, While the Gap Between Persistently Poor Counties and Counties that are not Persistently Poor is Closing, 02/2022, view details
  • Veterans Are Positioned To Contribute Economically to Rural Communities, 09/2017, view details
  • Vietnam-Era Veterans Represent the Largest Share of All Rural Veterans, 03/2019, view details
  • Who Experiences Very Low Food Security?, 03/2017, view details
  • Who is Served by USDA Rural Broadband Projects? Study Shows Smaller Share of Eligible American Indians and Alaska Natives Reached by ReConnect, 12/2023, view details