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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.
Thank you everyone for insightful comments and suggestions! I am hoping that rural/urban populations by counties will be released soon by the Census.
Hi Neel_2019 ,
The Bureau hasn't yet released urban/rural populations by county yet (that I know of), but you can get estimates of these figures using the newly released Urban Areas, which are now available as a geography in MCDC's Geocorr application.
Here's a direct link to the query, with results from all states.
If you want to run it yourself, on the Geocorr input form, choose 2020 counties as your source geography, and 2022 urban/rural portion as your target geography.
If you're running a query against many states, it's much faster to deselect the option for HTML output, which takes a long time to generate, and select only CSV output.
Multiply the allocation factors by 100 to get percentages.