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Posted inEconomy

Rural Populations Decline, Regional Patterns Shift

EDITOR’S NOTE: The population in rural America (nonmetropolitan counties) has declined for a record-breaking sixth straight year, as we’ve previously reported. Geographer John Cromartie  of the USDA Economic Research Service looks at the factors that go into population change at the county level. Rural areas aren’t losing population just because Americans are leaving the countryside […]