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This web site tool that helps determine whether a specific location is considered rural based on various definitions of rural, including definitions that are used as eligibility criteria for federal programs.

This executive summary provides a general statistical overview of women's lives in rural regions. This includes summarizing some of the findings from the final report around the following topic areas: ethnicity/age, education/economics, social life, chronic illness, depression/anxiety, substance abuse, maternal health, HIV/AIDS, violence, homicide/ suicide, gay rural women, elderly rural women, disabled rural women and the commonly cited barriers to treatment.

The brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decision makers and others involved in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.

This fact sheet defines and discusses what rural life today looks like. Topics include Demography, Economics, Psychology and Culture.

The page also includes a list of rural resources, tools, maps, journals and other helpful information.

"The United States Census Bureau has taken the lead in creating a working definition of rural by defining what is urban or metropolitan, then defining rural by exclusion. The Bureau defines an urbanized area (UA) as consisting of adjacent, densely settled census block groups (BGs) and census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements along with adjacent densely settled census blocks where together they encompass a population of at least 50,000 people."