Urban / Rural Definition

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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Joe Germuska over 10 years ago

There's a lot of good information about the details of Census geographies in the Geographic Areas Reference Manual (GARM). It feels a little dated: it's from 1994 and the index page to the PDFs describes small changes for 2000 but doesn't specifically say whether 2010 had any changes or none.

GARM index:
www.census.gov/.../garm.html
Ch. 12: Urban & Rural Classifications:
www.census.gov/.../Ch12GARM.pdf
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Joe Germuska over 10 years ago

There's a lot of good information about the details of Census geographies in the Geographic Areas Reference Manual (GARM). It feels a little dated: it's from 1994 and the index page to the PDFs describes small changes for 2000 but doesn't specifically say whether 2010 had any changes or none.

GARM index:
www.census.gov/.../garm.html
Ch. 12: Urban & Rural Classifications:
www.census.gov/.../Ch12GARM.pdf
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