Overview
The Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America assembles statistics
on four broad categories of socioeconomic factors:
- People: Demographic data from the 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 out
- For 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.
