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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

100s of US urban areas will become rural with new criteria

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it's not because people are leaving.

It's just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing the definition of an urban area. Under the new criteria, more than 1,300 small cities, towns and villages designated urban a decade ago would be considered rural.

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