The change matters because rural and urban areas often qualify for different types of federal funding for transportation, housing, health care, education and agriculture.
More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria. Around 4.2 million residents living in 1,140 small cities, hamlets, towns and villages that lost their urban designation were bumped…
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