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PERSONS IN RURAL AREAS IN THE UNITED STATES
• As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 64.4 percent of the total rural population live east of the Mississippi River.
• Only 10 percent of the total population in the Western United States lives in rural areas. In the West, there are fewer rural residents because the land mass is vast—many areas are defined as “frontier” and occupations tend to be less dense, such as mining, large commercial farming, and ranching.
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• Nearly half (46.7 percent) of all persons living in rural areas are in the South, about 28 million people.
• Among U.S. counties, 704 of them have 100 percent of their populations living in rural areas, and 29 counties have 0 percent of their populations living in rural areas.
RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS IN RURAL U.S. 2020 5
