![]() ![]() To be sure, there are many ways – and no one right way – to classify communities. In determining how to draw the lines between “urban,” “suburban” and “rural” communities, Pew Research Center consulted a series of social scientists with expertise in this area. Census Bureau data, relies on county-level classifications created by the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The analysis of how urban, suburban and rural communities are changing along demographic lines (Chapter 1), based on U.S. For the analysis of findings from the new Pew Research Center survey (Chapters 2-7 of the report), references to urban, suburban and rural communities are based on respondents’ answer to the following question: “How would you describe the community where you currently live? (1) urban, (2) suburban, (3) rural.” In exploring the attitudes, experiences and changing demographics of Americans in different types of communities, this report relies on two distinct approaches to defining urban, suburban and rural areas. In contrast, most suburbanites say people who don’t live in the suburbs have a positive view of those who do. And majorities of urban and rural residents say people who don’t live in their type of community have a negative view of those who do. ![]() About two-thirds or more in urban and rural areas say people in other types of communities don’t understand the problems people face in their communities. More than half (54%) of rural voters now identify with or lean to the GOP, while 38% are Democrats or lean Democratic.Īgainst this backdrop, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that many urban and rural residents feel misunderstood and looked down on by Americans living in other types of communities. For their part, rural adults have moved more firmly into the Republican camp. Adults in urban counties, long aligned with the Democratic Party, have moved even more to the left in recent years, and today twice as many urban voters identify as Democrats or lean Democratic as affiliate with the Republican Party. And while the population is graying in all three types of communities, this is happening more rapidly in the suburbs than in urban and rural counties.Īt the same time, urban and rural communities are becoming increasingly different from each other politically. In contrast, rural counties have made only minimal gains since 2000 as the number of people leaving for urban or suburban areas has outpaced the number moving in. ![]() Urban and suburban counties are gaining population due to an influx of immigrants in both types of counties, as well as domestic migration into suburban areas. Urban areas are at the leading edge of racial and ethnic change, with nonwhites now a clear majority of the population in urban counties while solid majorities in suburban and rural areas are white. But according to a new analysis by Pew Research Center, these trends are playing out differently across community types. The country is growing in numbers, it’s becoming more racially and ethnically diverse and the population is aging. Large demographic shifts are reshaping America. ![]()
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