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RURAL AMERICA KEEPS SHRINKING
Sunday, July 31st, 2011 -- 9:12 am
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
New census data shows people fleeing rural America. Only 16-percent of the nation's population lives in what are considered rural areas. That’s down from 20-percent in 2000. In 1910, the population share of rural America was 72-percent.
While rural America shrinks, larger U.S. metro areas have enjoyed double-digit percentage gains in population over the past several decades. Since 2000, metros grew overall by 11-percent with the biggest gains in suburbs or small- or medium-sized cities. In fact, of the 10 fastest-growing places, all were small cities incorporated into the suburbs of expanding metro areas, mostly in California, Arizona and Texas.
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