Johnson County community members both rural and urban celebrated the 2025 Johnson County Fair, an annual event that opened on ...

• The energy divide. In many ways, Colorado’s rural-urban divide boils down to energy. As the state races toward a "renewable ...

(Photo by David Hamlow) As the 2024 election approached, news channels and commentators once again revived a familiar narrative: the urban-rural divide. But Laura Zabel, executive director of ...

That difference was more like 20% before the pandemic. To explain the disparity between rural and urban wages, Conor Walsh of Columbia Business School takes us back to the ’80s. The 1880s.

Blue America is a nation with an ever-shrinking countryside. In 2008, Barack Obama won 875 U.S. counties; in 2020, Joe Biden won 527, thanks largely to the rightward drift of rural jurisdictions ...

The population of rural America has declined from 36 percent of the nation’s total in 1950 to 14 percent in 2020. A fundamental difference between small-town and urban America is the schools.

The new criteria for urban areas shift the urban-rural ratio slightly, to 79.6% and 20.4%, respectively. The Census Bureau this year made the biggest modification in decades to the definition of ...