Re:The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971
by enterprise_cog on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:32PM
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Not sure why you left this part out.
> This small decline was largely the result of changes to the criteria for defining urban areas implemented by the Census Bureau, including raising the minimum population threshold for qualification from 2,500 to 5,000.
> Despite the increase in the urban population, urban areas, defined as densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas, now account for 80.0% of the U.S. population, down from 80.7% in 2010.