Rural poverty - Wikipedia
Rural poverty refers to situations where people living in non-urban regions are in a state or condition of lacking the financial resources and essentials for living. It takes account of factors of rural society, rural economy, and political systems that give rise to the marginalization and economic disadvantage found there. [1]
Rural Poverty & Well-Being - USDA ERS
2024年11月13日 · The demographics of poverty, including the breakdown of rural/urban poverty by race, family structure, and age. Background information and definitions (a note about data sources, region definitions, and how poverty is defined).
Rural Poverty Has Distinct Regional and Racial Patterns
2021年8月9日 · Just more than 5 million rural residents, or about 12 percent of the U.S. rural population, lived in counties that had high and persistent poverty rates in 2019. Of those, 1.5 million were individually poor, accounting for 20 percent of …
Many Rural Americans Are Still “Left Behind”
Currently, rural poverty is 3 percentage points higher than urban poverty. Further, persistently high-poverty counties are disproportionally rural and continue to be geographically concentrated in Appalachia and Native American lands, the Southern “Black Belt,” the Mississippi Delta, and the Rio Grande Valley.
The demographic profile of the global poor: Who are the poor ...
2024年12月11日 · Globally, the difference in the rural and urban poverty rates is 35 percentage points at the $6.85 poverty line, compared to 11 percentage points at the $2.15 extreme poverty line. Poverty is still largely a rural phenomenon at the higher poverty line, but from a global point of view it is less concentrated in rural areas than extreme poverty.
Rural America at a Glance: 2023 Edition - USDA ERS
2023年11月15日 · Rural America at a Glance looks at rural population and migration trends, poverty, housing insecurity, unemployment, and clean energy jobs. It finds rural employment and annual growth rates nearly back to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels.
15 Key Facts Shaping Rural America - Center on Rural Innovation
Close to 80% of counties with long-term, persistent poverty are rural. And the share of rural residents living in persistent poverty counties is disproportionately higher for rural people of color. Just 7% of philanthropic grantmaking and giving services organizations are in rural areas.