Ben Winchester

Rural is not dying, get over it. My likes populate content at Opinions are mine. Chapter 9!

[Ben Winchester @GrokRural]

Rethinking (Rural) Housing: How We're Getting it Wrong, Why It Matters Everywhere, and What to Do About It. Join us next Thursday at noon Central time. https://t.co/nXB1Fi7fmR

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

"Manufacturing jobs, which peaked at 19.5 million in 1979, fell to under 11.5 million during the pandemic, while employment in finance and professional & business services soared from 12 million to 32 million. This economic shift brought with it a demographic realignment"

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

"Perhaps the most striking statistic within the 2023 age estimates is the fact that since 2020, the country’s small towns & rural areas have been attracting younger adults at the highest rate in nearly a century"

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

Where Americans Choose to Move & Where They Leave: "I was surprised by the extent to which certain ecological regions correspond to the patterns on this map" https://t.co/7siEcyRDj4

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

“In 2020, people overstated it. (But) they really underestimate the long-term impact as it rolls out over a decade or 2, how much things change. And I think we're going to be a very different country by 2030 if this trend we've seen the last 3 years now keeps going”

[UMN Extension Community Development @UMN_Ext_CD]

The narrative that most #rural areas are dying? Not the full story, says @UMNExt's Ben Winchester. "Rural areas have not been dying. They grew . . . There was a brain gain of people in the '70s, '80s, and '90s that filled up almost every vacant home." https://t.co/LciIBwPoTw

[Ben Winchester @GrokRural]

@ProducerCities It sure is hard to grow when our "success" is taken away from us. At the same time what is then left looks worse when we recalculate rural averages!

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

"This story of rural decline, however, fails to acknowledge that nonmetro population change is due to endogenous growth or decline in a fixed universe of nonmetro counties, & growth or decline from nonmetro-to-metro reclassification" https://t.co/vf2hO4MRWQ cc: @GrokRural

[UMN Extension Community Development @UMN_Ext_CD]

We're in Virginia, #Minnesota next week for the 2025 Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities (CEC) conference! Huge thanks to this year's sponsors for making the event possible. @BlandinFound @IRRRB @GREnergyNews @StLouisCountyMN @EssentiaHealth @irontrailevents

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

Examining the Shift in Virginia’s Population Trends [presentation earlier today]: "In 2023, migration into rural communities remained near record highs" https://t.co/O543x7Cq23 cc @GrokRural

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

Young Adults Are Reviving Small Towns—& They’re Moving at the Highest Rate in a Decade: "Since 2020, 75% of the growth in the 25-to-44 demographic has been seen in cities with populations of less than 1 million, or in rural enclaves" https://t.co/SYTxabfNl9

[UMN Extension Community Development @UMN_Ext_CD]

As its residents age, Yellow Medicine County faces a population decline. But @UMNExt's Ben Winchester paints a more positive picture of the #rural county's future if it can address its housing shortage.
https://t.co/9D1mid7SfU

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

Rust Belt demographics: "Most bedrooms in the US are owned by people between 50 & 70 years old (Figure 1). Many of these bedrooms are less than fully occupied, especially once owners enter their 60s" https://t.co/p4SugXv3RF

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

"Owner-occupant applications for people living in urban neighborhoods of metropolitan areas looking to buy in rural neighborhoods or outside of metropolitan areas ...have experienced a sustained increase of nearly 20% above their pre-pandemic trend" https://t.co/ZXyshc7XiW

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

Rural America at a Glance [2024]: "The rapid increase in the nonmetro older population during the 2010s & early 2020s resulted in a large increase in the number of older age counties, defined as those with 20% or more of their population age 65 or older" https://t.co/U16EIyRMEU

[Economic Research Service @USDA_ERS]

Rural America at a Glance: 2024 Edition highlights recent social and economic conditions in rural areas of the United States.

Learn more: https://t.co/3qMVMn7UK7

[Lou Zacharilla @LouICF]

What you think about "Flyover Country" in the USA is like most perceptions may be dead wrong. Listen. #midwest @TSDS_Culver @GrokRural @BABLEconnect @nbcchicago #icfsummit @ruralbroadband

[U of MN Extension @UMNExt]

Minnesota State Fair happening: Aug. 26, 10 a.m., #UMN Extension's Ben Winchester @GrokRural will be part of the town hall #Rural Voice project w/ @Tim_Penny and @KerriMPR . Recorded/aired on @MPRnews - register to attend. https://t.co/VH7w5eZc3w

[U of MN Extension @UMNExt]

🏙️🏡 Join us for Side by Side, a new podcast with @umn_ext_cd's @EllenWolter that explores the interdependent relationship between rural and urban spaces. Weekly episodes every Wed starting Aug 28. #UMNProud〽 Learn more➡️ https://t.co/4gaMG8N8yV

[Jim Russell @ProducerCities]

Are Millennials leaving town? Reconciling peak Millennials & youthification hypotheses: “Using the 1962–2019 Current Population Survey (CPS), the paper first analyzes the current status of Millennials” https://t.co/OjYh9bSW0c