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21-465: Minnesota State House File 2800, introduced on February 12, 2008, proposed a 0.5% sales tax for the seven counties that make up the Minneapolis–St. Paul Urbanized Area : Hennepin , Ramsey , Dakota , Anoka , Washington , Carver , and Scott counties. This tax was to be divided equally among transit and highway projects. In further engrossments, the tax was reduced to 0.25% and the highway funding

42-911: A list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau , ordered according to their 2020 census populations. An urban area is defined by the Census Bureau as a contiguous set of census blocks that are "densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas". Urban areas consist of a densely-settled urban core, plus surrounding developed areas that meet certain density criteria. Since urban areas are composed of census blocks and not cities, counties, or county-equivalents, urban area boundaries may consist of partial areas of these political units. Urban areas are distinguished from rural areas : any area not part of an urban area

63-686: A low in Connecticut (4.6 percent) to a high in New Mexico (21.9 percent). About 13.4 million children under the age of 18 live in rural areas of the nation. Children in rural areas had lower rates of poverty than those in urban areas (18.9 percent compared with 22.3 percent), but more of them were uninsured (7.3 percent compared with 6.3 percent). A higher percentage of "own children" in rural areas lived in married-couple households (76.3 percent compared with 67.4 percent). ("Own children" includes never-married biological, step and adopted children of

84-466: A mortgage ($ 1,271 compared with $ 1,561). A higher percentage owned their housing units "free and clear," with no mortgage or loan (44.0 percent compared with 32.3 percent). States with the highest median household incomes in rural areas were Connecticut ($ 93,382) and New Jersey ($ 92,972) (not statistically different from each other). The state with the lowest rural median household income was Mississippi ($ 40,200). Among rural areas, poverty rates varied from

105-458: A period of public input, and the final results of delineation were published on December 29, 2022. Key changes for the 2020 criteria included: Largely as a result of the change in criteria, the proportion of American citizens living in urban areas fell between 2010 and 2020, from 80.7% to 80.0%. There were 2,644 urban areas identified by the Census Bureau for 2020. 510 had a population of 50,000 or more and are listed here. Rural areas in

126-476: Is considered to be rural by the Census Bureau. The list in this article includes urban areas with a population of at least 50,000, but urban areas may have as few as 5,000 residents or 2,000 housing units. Some cities may also be a part of two or more urban areas, as is the case for Huntsville , and the smaller Huntsville Southeast. For the 2020 census, the Census Bureau redefined the classification of urban areas. The criteria were finalized on March 24, 2022, after

147-854: Is home to more than 80% of the total population. The United States Office of Management and Budget defines rural areas in the United States by county; some rural areas are classified into metropolitan counties. Others are spread throughout the numerous micropolitan statistical areas . The Census Bureau updates their definition following each decennial census. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has four different systems for defining rural areas: Frontier and Remote (FAR) area codes, which define rural areas in four levels of increasing remoteness by ZIP code , Rural–Urban Commuting Areas (RUCA), Urban Influence Codes (UICs), and Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC). The United States Department of Health and Human Services has two agencies that define rural areas. The Health Resources and Services Administration addresses

168-665: The 1990s. A notable exception in recent years is Vermont . Despite being one of the most rural states in the nation, Vermont has a very heavy partisan lean in favor of the Democratic Party . It was Joe Biden's strongest state in the 2020 United States presidential election . Most rural counties are experiencing persistent population decline. Compared with households in urban areas, rural households had lower median household income ($ 52,386 compared with $ 54,296), lower median home values ($ 151,300 compared with $ 190,900), and lower monthly housing costs for households paying

189-654: The Twin Cities area. The CTIB has independent bonding authority, secured by future revenues of the transit tax, and all counties that join the Board are legally bound to keep collecting revenues if they choose to leave the board, until all obligations made while they were members are repaid. The Board was also allowed to secure bonding in excess of its revenues if it does so in cooperation with member counties who choose to use their bonding authority to fund CTIB projects. The Board may fund any project it chooses, so long as it

210-609: The United States Rural areas in the United States , often referred to as rural America , consists of approximately 97% of the United States ' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population ), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what constitutes those areas. Rural areas tend to be poorer and their populations are older than in other parts of

231-411: The United States because of rural flight , declining infrastructure, and fewer economic prospects. The declining population also results in less access to services, such as high-quality medical and education systems. The United States Census Bureau defines these areas in the United States as sparsely populated and far from urban centers , which make up an estimated 3% of the land area of the U.S., but

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252-549: The board. A week later, on April 1 Dakota, Hennepin, and Washington counties voted to enact the sales tax and join the Board as well, while Scott County voted not to join. Though Scott and Carver counties are not currently members of the board, they may join at a later date if they so choose in the future. According to the enabling legislation, the purpose of the CTIB was to collect the transit tax funds collected in member counties, and to grant those funds to capital transit projects in

273-656: The couple). As of 2016, about 7 percent of homeless people in the United States live in rural areas, although some believe that this is an underestimate. There are significant health disparities between urban and rural areas of the United States. The per capita rate of primary care physicians is lower in rural areas of the country (65 primary care physicians per 100,000 rural Americans, compared to 105 primary care physicians for urban and suburban Americans). Rural Americans are also more likely than other Americans to suffer from chronic health conditions such as diabetes , heart disease , and cancer . A study published in

294-547: The governor, and when the seven counties met to draw up the Joint Powers Agreement to create the CTIB, they chose to give the Metropolitan Council only 5 votes on the CTIB, reserving the remaining 95 votes to be divided among the member counties proportionally according to the mean of population and tax-revenue percentages. List of United States urban areas Population This is

315-430: The journal JAMA Pediatrics in 2015 analyzed data on U.S. youth suicide rates from 1996 to 2010. It found that the rates of suicides for rural Americans aged 10 to 24 was almost double the rate among their urban counterparts. This was attributed to social isolation, greater availability of guns, and difficulty accessing healthcare. Notwithstanding the economic and health challenges, a 2018 survey of rural adults found

336-399: The legislation was passed, each county board was required to vote whether or not to enact the tax and join the joint powers Counties Transit Improvement Board. On March 25 Anoka County and Ramsey County both voted to join the Board, thus fulfilling the legislative requirement that at least two counties enact the tax in order to create the Board. On the same day, Carver County voted not to join

357-408: The shortcomings of the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and RUCA definitions to produce a definition that is balanced between them. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses its own definition for setting Medicare payment rates. CityLab defines rural areas by congressional district, based on census tracts and a machine-learning algorithm. Rural America

378-552: The tax, and the remaining five counties should all be large enough to exceed the minimum funding guarantee. The board's membership includes representatives of each member county as well as a representative of the Metropolitan Council , which is the umbrella organization for all Twin Cities-area transit. The Metro-area counties have minimal power on the Metropolitan Council, much of which was appointed directly by

399-530: Was removed, leaving a dedicated transit tax. The state legislation, which required each county board to both pass the tax and join a Joint Powers Board with the other counties that passed the tax, was passed on February 21, 2008 in the House and the same day in the Senate (as SF 2521). The bill was vetoed by Governor Tim Pawlenty on February 22, and overridden by both houses of the legislature on February 25. After

420-632: Was the center of the Populist movement of the United States in the 1880s and 1890s. Farmers tried to solve their problems using co-ops and the Grange movement. They failed to win elections and that movement ended in the two defeats of William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and 1900. Since the 1940s and 1950s, the rural districts of the northern United States have largely been a stronghold for the Republican Party . Thew rural South turned Republican in

441-462: Was within the taxing district, is consistent with the regional long-range transit plan established by the Metropolitan Council, and does not infringe upon any small county's minimum funding guarantee, which guarantees that any member county which contributes less than 3% of the board's funding was guaranteed to receive at least 3% of grant funding awarded. This last clause appears to be moot at least for now, since neither Scott nor Carver counties enacted

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