Rural areas in the United States
[2][6] The United States Department of Health and Human Services has two agencies that define rural areas.[2] CityLab defines rural areas by congressional district, based on census tracts and a machine-learning algorithm.Despite being one of the most rural states in the nation, Vermont has a very heavy partisan lean in favor of the Democratic Party.[12]States with the highest median household incomes in rural areas were Connecticut ($93,382) and New Jersey ($92,972) (not statistically different from each other).[14] A study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics in 2015 analyzed data on U.S. youth suicide rates from 1996 to 2010.[15] Notwithstanding the economic and health challenges, a 2018 survey of rural adults found a majority felt they were better off financially than their parents at the same age.
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