Here’s a great source for info on the people your library serves!
The Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America from the
Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides maps and charts of county-level data on
- people (using newly released demographic data from the American Community Survey, including age, race and ethnicity, migration and immigration, education, household size and family composition),
- jobs (using economic data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources, including information on employment trends, unemployment, industrial composition, and household income),
- agriculture (using indicators from the 2007 Census of Agriculture, including number and size of farms, operator characteristics, off-farm income, and government payments), and
- county classifications (using typologies such as the rural-urban continuum, economic dependence, persistent poverty, population loss, and other ERS county codes).
Maps are interactive and also provided for download; raw data are provided for download.
