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Urban / Rural Definition
Katherine Nesse
over 10 years ago
Can anyone point me to a concise definition of urban and rural in the 2010 Decennial Census? I have read the Federal Register notices but I am looking for something that is more brief. I am specifically interested in how the population is defined at the block group level. For example, if I look up a block group and it has an urban population of 179 and a rural population of 12, is there a page somewhere that will briefly describe how these are determined?
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Patty Becker
over 10 years ago
There were a lot of changes to the urbanized area delineation process in 2000 and
2010 mostly because of improved precision with GIS. It's very detailed
and block by block based on density. Headache producing.
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Patty Becker
over 10 years ago
There were a lot of changes to the urbanized area delineation process in 2000 and
2010 mostly because of improved precision with GIS. It's very detailed
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