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USDA releases Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America
Story Date: 6/27/2013
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Source: USDA ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE, 6/25/13
Overview
The Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America assembles statistics on four broad categories of socioeconomic factors:
People: Demographic data from the latest American Community Survey, including age, race and ethnicity, migration and immigration, education, household size and family composition. Data have been added on veterans, including service period, education, unemployment, income, and demographic characteristics.
Jobs: Economic data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources, including information on employment trends, unemployment, industrial composition, and household income.
Agriculture: Indicators from the latest Census of Agriculture, including number and size of farms, operator characteristics, off-farm income, and government payments.
County classifications: The rural-urban continuum, economic dependence, persistent poverty, population loss, and other ERS county codes.
What can users do with the Atlas?
View county-level maps for over 60 socioeconomic indicators
View the entire country or zoom into specific regions, States, or county areas
View a selected socioeconomic indicator just for counties of a certain type (such as nonmetro, farming-dependent, persistent poverty); counties that fall outside of the selected county type are grayed outFor any county, view a pop-up window showing all the indicators for that county
Print a version of the map or save the image in a graphics-file format that may be added to documents or presentations
Download a spreadsheet containing all the data for a selected county or for all U.S. counties.
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