This study investigates residents' attitudes toward recreation and tourism development in 10
rural Colorado towns. Two-per capita ratios based on tourism retail sales and total retail …

The Geography of Rural Change provides a thorough examination of the processes and
outcomes of rural change as a result of a period of major restructuring in developed market …

While spatial data analysis has received increasing attention in demographic studies, it
remains a difficult subject to learn for practitioners due to its complexity and various …

This article examines the context of growing up in rural America and how rural roots shape
life chances. The distinctive physical, social, and cultural attributes of rural areas can …

This report examines the changing demographics of rural America and shows that the
makeup of rural America is changing as certain regions grow with the migration of retirees …

As fertility differences in the United States diminish, population redistribution trends are
increasingly dependent on migration. This research used newly developed county-level age …

Population growth was widespread in nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas of the United
States during the early 1990s. More than 64 percent of the 2,277 nonmetro counties gained …

Poverty is more extensive and more severe in nonmetropolitan areas than in metropolitan
areas. Here we maintain that the extensive industrial and economic transformations …

This paper summarizes annual migration patterns across the rural–urban continuum in the
USA between 1990 and 2016. We introduce a modified rural–urban continuum …

Nonmetropolitan counties in the USA with significant concentrations of recreational activity
are identified using a combination of quantitative and contextual indicators. The 285 …