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
"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"
"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"
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
“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”
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
@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!
"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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
🏙️🏡 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
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