Happy New Year, everyone!
I am looking for percent rural and urban population and land area by counties for 2020 census. I am unable to locate this file. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Indraneel
Even though it hasn't been updated since 2013, I really like the CDC's urban-rural classification system for counties:www.cdc.gov/.../urban_rural.htm
One of the "Urban and Rural" deliverables is the soon(?) upcoming release of the Census Blocks file, UR version, thru Census TIGER. This should be near-identical to the Census Blocks file, PL version,…
Jinx, Todd Graham! I owe you a Coke.
FWIW, this census.gov web page provides the most current info about their urban/rural definitions (the official Census urban/rural definitions, not USDA, OMB CBSAs, etc.). There's a link there to a very recent (12/29/22) press release that announced the new 2020 urban areas, including some high-level stats about them. (Maybe this is the press kit Todd was referring to in his reply.) It links to a Federal Register Notice that lists the new UAs with their populations, housing counts & land areas, but I don't see any other source of that info available yet.Echoing what Todd said, I fully expect we'll have access to 2020 urban/rural populations by county sometime this year, but it's not yet clear when!