Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Rural definitions

What is Rural?
Describes the primary methods the federal government uses to define rural areas. Includes links to additional resources addressing this issue.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Information Center
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Rural-Urban Continuum Codes
Provides access to Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCCs), a classification system that distinguishes metropolitan counties by population size and nonmetro counties by degree of urbanization and adjacency to a metro area.
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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