Analysis: The Hollowing Out of Rural Georgia - Part 1 | The Daily Yonder
A deepening demographic crisis now haunts rural Georgia and offers one of the starkest pictures of the widening divide between the greater Atlanta area| The Daily Yonder
The U.S. population in nonmetropolitan areas has increased each year since 2020, due to migration. Still, nonmetropolitan areas in some parts of the country continue to experience population loss. Opportunities for population growth and economic expansion vary widely from one nonmetropolitan county to the next, and new regional patterns of growth and decline have emerged in recent years.| www.ers.usda.gov
A deepening demographic crisis now haunts rural Georgia and offers one of the starkest pictures of the widening divide between the greater Atlanta area| The Daily Yonder
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In this brief Carsey Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson examines rural demographic trends between 2010 and 2020 using data from the 2020 Census. With fewer births, more deaths, and more people leaving than moving in, rural America experienced an overall population loss for the first time in history.| Carsey School of Public Policy
