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United States -- Urban/Rural and Inside/Outside Metropolitan Area
GCT-P1. Urban/Rural and Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Population:  2000  More information about this table...
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data
NOTE: For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf1u.htm.


Urban/rural and metropolitan/nonmetropolitan population


Number


Percent

 

 

 

United States

281,421,906

100.0

 

 

 

URBAN AND RURAL

 

 

Urban

222,360,539

79.0

In urbanized area

192,323,824

68.3

In central place

109,705,763

39.0

Not in central place

82,618,061

29.4

In urban cluster

30,036,715

10.7

In central place

22,844,647

8.1

Not in central place

7,192,068

2.6

Rural

59,061,367

21.0

Place of 2,500 or more

4,089,599

1.5

Place of 1,000 to 2,499

4,989,152

1.8

Place of less than 1,000

3,821,336

1.4

Not in place

46,161,280

16.4

 

 

 

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE METROPOLITAN AREA

 

 

In metropolitan area

225,981,679

80.3

In central city

85,401,127

30.3

Not in central city

140,580,552

50.0

Urban

114,885,009

40.8

In urbanized area

105,628,220

37.5

In urban cluster

9,256,789

3.3

Rural

25,695,543

9.1

Not in metropolitan area

55,440,227

19.7

Urban

22,695,347

8.1

In urbanized area

2,708,887

1.0

In urban cluster

19,986,460

7.1

Rural

32,744,880

11.6

(X) Not applicable
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 1, Matrix P1.



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