Hundreds of the urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, and it’s not because of anything they’ve done
FILE - In this June 30, 2016, file photo, a train carries blades for wind turbines bound for another state through Rocky Ford, Colo., in Otero County. Both Rocky Ford, Colo., and Dawson, Ga., were classified as urban areas after the 2010 census because they had populations over 2,500 residents. Under new criteria posted this spring by the U.S. Census Bureau, these communities would no longer be designated as urban.
“We are rural and we feel rural, and that’s how we already identify," said Randy Reeg, city administrator of Mauston, Wisconsin, a city of 4,347 residents about 75 miles northwest of Madison. For starters, the Census Bureau is switching to housing units instead of people as the basis for calculating what should be an urban area. Bureau officials say the change will make it easier to update between once-a-decade head counts of the U.S. They also contend that it's needed because aintroduces errors into 2020 census population numbers at small geographies to protect people's identities. Housing counts stay accurate under the method.
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