Population Trends in Post-Recession Rural America A Publication Series of the W3001 Research Project
About the Series
Population Trends in Post-Recession Rural America provides information about current trends confronting rural people and their communities in the United States. The briefs are available in an interactive format or can be downloaded as PDFs. The brief series is organized by the W3001: Great Recession, Its Aftermath, and Patterns of Rural and Small Town Demographic Change.
The brief series is funded by the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison, Community and Regional Development Institute at Cornell University, and the Center for Population Studies at the University of Mississippi. The W3001 committee is funded by the Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Directors (WAAESD).
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All Publications
  • Brief No.: 01-16
    Date: May 2016
    Author(s): Kenneth M. Johnson, Katherine J. Curtis, and David Egan-Robertson
    The economic shocks of the housing-market crisis and Great Recession were associated with striking changes in net migration patterns in both rural and urban America. As the economic situation deteriorated, fewer Americans migrated, leading to a convergence in county migration trends.
  • Brief No.: 02-16
    Date: August 2016
    Author(s): Shannon M. Monnat
    Insurance rates among adult Hispanics are lowest in rural counties with historically small Hispanic populations but that experienced substantial Hispanic population growth between 1990 and 2010.
  • Brief No.: 03-16
    Date: September 2016
    Author(s): Miranda N. Smith, Richelle L. Winkler, and Kenneth M. Johnson
    We find five distinct migration patterns in rural counties. Each type has a different impact on the local age structure and unique implications for local service needs and community development strategies.
  • Brief No.: 04-16
    Date: December 2016
    Author(s): Brian C. Thiede, David L. Brown, Scott R. Sanders, Nina Glasgow, and László J. Kulcsár
    The number of service-providing establishments in nonmetropolitan counties declines as local populations become increasingly old.