{"id":532385,"date":"2022-12-29T18:43:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/1000-places-bumped-into-rural-category-with-urban-change\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:43:32","slug":"1000-places-bumped-into-rural-category-with-urban-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/1000-places-bumped-into-rural-category-with-urban-change\/","title":{"rendered":"#1,000 places bumped into rural category with urban change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6afa00839957b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6afa00839957b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/1000-places-bumped-into-rural-category-with-urban-change\/#1000_places_bumped_into_rural_category_with_urban_change\" >1,000 places bumped into rural category with urban change<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1000_places_bumped_into_rural_category_with_urban_change\"><\/span>1,000 places bumped into rural category with urban change<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>Almost 1,000 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3.5 million residents living in the small cities, hamlets, towns and villages that lost their urban designation were bumped into the rural category. The new criteria raised the population threshold from 2,500 to 5,000 people and housing units were added to the definition.<\/p>\n<p>The change matters because rural and urban areas often qualify for different types of federal funding for transportation, housing, health care, education and agriculture. The federal government doesn&#8217;t have a standard definition of urban or rural, but the Census Bureau\u2019s definition often provides a baseline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole thing about urban and rural is all about money,\u201d said Mary Craigle, bureau chief for Montana\u2019s Research and Information Services. \u201cPlaces that qualify as urban are eligible for transportation dollars that rural areas aren\u2019t, and then rural areas are eligible for dollars that urban areas are not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Census Bureau this year made the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/urban-rural-criteria-census-72eb8b8188a3685e73e2659182816f59\" data-ylk=\"slk:biggest modification\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">biggest modification<\/a> in decades to the definition of an urban area. The bureau adjusts the definition every decade after a census to address any changes or needs of policymakers and researchers. The bureau says it is done for statistical purposes and it has no control over how government agencies use the definitions to distribute funding.<\/p>\n<p>There were 2,646 urban areas in the mainland U.S., Puerto Rico and U.S. islands <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2022\/12\/29\/2022-28286\/2020-census-qualifying-urban-areas-and-final-criteria-clarifications\" data-ylk=\"slk:on the new list\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">on the new list<\/a> released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis change in definition is a big deal and a substantial change from the Census Bureau\u2019s long-standing procedures,&#8221; said Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire. \u201cIt has significant implications both for policy and for researchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the old criteria, an urbanized area needed to have at least 50,000 residents. An urban cluster was defined as having at least 2,500 people, a threshold that had been around since 1910. Under this definition, 81% of the U.S. was urban and 19% was rural over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new definition, hammered out after the 2020 census, the minimum population required for an area to be considered urban doubled to 5,000 people. Originally, the Census Bureau proposed raising the threshold to 10,000 people but pulled back amid opposition. The new criteria for urban areas shift the urban-rural ratio slightly, to 79.6% and 20.4%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In 1910, a town with 2,500 residents had a lot more goods and services than a town that size does today, \u201cand these new definitions acknowledge that,\u201d said Michael Cline, North Carolina\u2019s state demographer.<\/p>\n<p>With the new criteria, the distinction between an urbanized area and an urban cluster has been eliminated since the Census Bureau determined there was little difference in economic activities between communities larger and smaller than 50,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the Census Bureau is adding housing units to the definition of an urban area. A place can be considered urban if it has at least 2,000 housing units, based on the calculation that the average household has 2.5 people.<\/p>\n<p>Among the beneficiaries of using housing instead of people are resort towns in ski or beach destinations, or other places with lots of vacation homes, since they can qualify as urban based on the number of homes instead of full-time residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many seasonal communities in North Carolina and this change in definition to housing units may be helpful in acknowledging that these areas are built up with roads, housing, and for at least one part of the year, host many thousands of people,&#8221; Cline said.<\/p>\n<p>Housing, instead of population, is also going to be used for density measures at the level of census blocks, which typically have several hundred people and are the building blocks of urban areas. The Census Bureau said using housing units instead of population will allow it to make updates in fast-growing areas in between the once-a-decade censuses.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s another reason for switching to housing units instead of population: the Census Bureau&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-government-and-politics-privacy-8ab4f67fbec19fd57365bd58ffde0e4d\" data-ylk=\"slk:controversial new tool\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">controversial new tool<\/a> for protecting the privacy of participants in its head counts and surveys. The method adds intentional errors to data to obscure the identity of any given participant, and it is most noticeable in the smallest geographies, such as census blocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe block level data aren&#8217;t really reliable and this provides them an opportunity for the density threshold they picked to be on par with the population,&#8221; said Eric Guthrie, a senior demographer in the Minnesota State Demographic Center.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Follow Mike Schneider on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeSchneiderAP\" data-ylk=\"slk:@MikeSchneiderAP\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">@MikeSchneiderAP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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