Under the old criteria, an urbanized area needed to have at least 50,000 residents. READ MORE: Some census takers who fudged 2020 data didn’t get fired, federal report says “It has significant implications both for policy and for researchers.” “This change in definition is a big deal and a substantial change from the Census Bureau’s long-standing procedures,” said Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire. islands on the new list released Thursday. There were 2,646 urban areas in the mainland U.S., Puerto Rico and U.S. The bureau says it is done for statistical purposes and it has no control over how government agencies use the definitions to distribute funding. The bureau adjusts the definition every decade after a census to address any changes or needs of policymakers and researchers.
The Census Bureau this year made the biggest modification in decades to the definition of an urban area. “Places that qualify as urban are eligible for transportation dollars that rural areas aren’t, and then rural areas are eligible for dollars that urban areas are not.” “The whole thing about urban and rural is all about money,” said Mary Craigle, bureau chief for Montana’s Research and Information Services. The federal government doesn’t have a standard definition of urban or rural, but the Census Bureau’s definition often provides a baseline. The change matters because rural and urban areas often qualify for different types of federal funding for transportation, housing, health care, education and agriculture. The new criteria raised the population threshold from 2,500 to 5,000 people and housing units were added to the definition. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.Īround 4.2 million residents living in 1,140 small cities, hamlets, towns and villages that lost their urban designation were bumped into the rural category. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S.
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