The U.S. Department of Agriculture has just launched the Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America with the online mapping of more than 60 statistical indicators that include agricultural, economic and demographic data across the country. The county-level data is both viewable and downloadable from the site in a tabular data format.
The data is combined in four categories:
- People — country demographic profiles, including age, race/ethnicity, education, family composition, population change, migration and immigration.
- Jobs — conditions and trends affecting the labor force, such as employment change, unemployment, industry and occupational structure.
- Agriculture — indicators of farm structure and the well-being of farm households, including farm size, income, sales and tenure.
- County typologies — ERS county classifications based on the rural-urban continuum, economic structure and other key locational features, such as landscape amenities, occupation types, persistent poverty or population loss statistics.
When users click on a specific county, a pop-up box appears to provide data on all indicators in each of the four categories.
View the Atlas online here.
