"Rural" classification

[schrizto]

<p>How do I find out if where I live is a “rural” community or not? A few scholarships are only offered to people who live in rural places. I asked my dad and he said that the post office considers my town a rural area, but he doesn’t remember where he got the information. I’ve always thought of where I live as a “suburb” because we’re about an hour’s drive from NYC, but there’s also a lot of farms and open space.</p>

[CIA]

<p>An hour’s a bit far to be a suburb I think. Suburb’s are generally <30 minutes in my opinion.</p>

[alethiometer]

<p>While I agree with CIA above, why don’t you just call the post office and/or the school and ask?</p>

[MidwestMom2Kids_1]

<p>[What’s</a> Rural? | Daily Yonder](<a href=“http://www.dailyyonder.com/whats-rural]What’s”>What's Rural? | The Daily Yonder)</p>

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The federal Office of Management and Budget deems a county urban if it has a city with 50,000 or more people. Also, if a quarter of the workforce of a county commutes to a metropolitan area, then that county, too, is included in a metro area. Everything else is nonmetropolitan — which has become a shorthand for rural. Rural is what’s left.

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