List of Rural Counties and Designated Eligible Census
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List of Rural Counties And Designated Eligible Census Tracts in Metropolitan Counties Updated Census 2010 The Office of Rural Health Policy uses two methods to determine geographic eligibility for its grant programs. As in prior years, all counties that are not designated as parts of Metropolitan Areas (MAs) by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are considered rural. Any county that is not a part of a Metropolitan Area is considered rural. Counties classified as Micropolitan are non-Metropolitan. The current list of MAs, issued in 2013, and updates are available on the Internet at http://www.census.gov/population/www/metroareas/metrodef.html Due to the fact that entire counties are designated as Metropolitan when, in fact, large parts of many counties may be rural in nature, the Office of Rural Health Policy has sought an alternative method of looking at sub-county sections of these Metropolitan counties that would allow sections to be designated rural. The Goldsmith modification was originally developed and used to identify rural Census tracts in large Metropolitan counties. The Office of Rural Health Policy has funded the development of the Rural Urban Commuting Area Codes (RUCAs) to designate "Rural" areas within MAs. Census tracts with RUCA codes 4 through 10 are considered rural for the purposes of Rural Health grants. While use of the RUCA codes has allowed identification of rural census tracts in Metropolitan counties, among the more than 60,000 tracts in the U.S. there are some that are extremely large and where use of RUCA codes alone fails to account for distance to services and sparse population. In response to these concerns, ORHP has also designated as rural census tracts with RUCA codes 2 or 3 that are at least 400 square miles in area with a population density of no more than 35 people. More information on RUCAs is available at http://www.ers.usda.gov/data- products/rural-urban-commuting-area-codes.aspx To determine whether a county or a particular address is designated rural, visit the webpage Rural Health Grants Eligibility Advisor. The attached list is in two Sections. The Territories of the United States are included in these lists. Section I is a list of non-Metro counties arranged by State. The entire area of these counties is considered rural. Section II is a list of Metropolitan counties in which we have identified certain Census Tracts that are considered rural. Only the area of the identified tracts is considered rural in those Metropolitan counties. Please check the lists carefully. For further information, contact the Office of Rural Health Policy at (301) 443-0835. 1 of 48 Updated 12/31/2018 Section I STATE: Wilcox ARIZONA Winston County: Apache ALASKA Gila ALABAMA Aleutians East Graham Greenlee Barbour Aleutians West La Paz Bullock Bethel Navajo Butler Bristol Bay Santa Cruz Chambers Denali Cherokee Dillingham ARKANSAS Choctaw Haines Clarke Hoonah-Angoon Arkansas Clay Juneau Ashley Cleburne Kenai Peninsula Baxter Coffee Ketchikan Gateway Boone Conecuh Kodiak Island Bradley Coosa Kusilvak Calhoun Covington Lake and Peninsula Carroll Crenshaw Chicot Cullman Matanuska-Susitna Clark Dale This county is eligible Clay Dallas even though it is Cleburne DeKalb designated as a Columbia Escambia Metropolitan County. Conway Fayette All census tracts in the Cross Franklin county qualify as rural. Dallas Greene Nome Desha Jackson North Slope Drew Lamar Northwest Arctic Franklin Macon Petersburg Fulton Marengo Pr of Wales-Hyder Greene Marion Sitka Hempstead Marshall Skagway Hot Spring Monroe Southeast Fairbanks Howard Perry Valdez-Cordova Independence Pike Wrangell City and Izard Randolph Borough Jackson Sumter Yakutat Johnson Talladega Yukon-Koyukuk Lafayette Tallapoosa Lawrence Washington AMERICAN SAMOA - Lee All Logan 2 of 48 Updated 12/31/2018 Marion Trinity San Juan Mississippi Tuolumne San Miguel Monroe Sedgwick Montgomery COLORADO Summit Washington Nevada Alamosa Yuma Newton Archuleta Ouachita Baca CONNECTICUT Phillips Bent Pike Chaffee Litchfield Polk Cheyenne Pope Conejos DELAWARE Prairie Costilla No rural counties Randolph Crowley Scott Custer FLORIDA Searcy Delta Sevier Dolores Bradford Sharp Eagle Calhoun St. Francis Fremont Columbia Stone Garfield DeSoto Union Grand Dixie Van Buren Gunnison Franklin White Hinsdale Glades Woodruff Huerfano Hamilton Yell Jackson Hardee Hendry CALIFORNIA Kiowa Kit Carson Holmes Alpine La Plata Jackson Amador Lake Lafayette Calaveras Las Animas Levy Colusa Lincoln Liberty Del Norte Logan Madison Glenn Mineral Monroe Humboldt Moffat Okeechobee Inyo Montezuma Putnam Lake Montrose Suwannee Lassen Morgan Taylor Mariposa Otero Union Mendocino Ouray Washington Modoc Phillips Mono Pitkin GEORGIA Nevada Prowers Appling Plumas Rio Blanco Atkinson Sierra Rio Grande Bacon Siskiyou Routt Baldwin Tehama Saguache 3 of 48 Updated 12/31/2018 Banks Pierce Kalawao Ben Hill Polk This county is eligible Berrien Putnam even though it is Bleckley Quitman designated as a Bulloch Rabun Metropolitan County. Calhoun Randolph All census tracts in the Camden Schley county qualify as rural. Candler Screven Charlton Seminole Kauai Chattooga Stephens IDAHO Clay Stewart Clinch Sumter Adams Coffee Talbot Bear Lake Colquitt Taliaferro Benewah Cook Tattnall Bingham Crisp Taylor Blaine Decatur Telfair Dodge Thomas Boise Dooly Tift This county is eligible Early Toombs even though it is Elbert Towns designated as a Emanuel Treutlen Metropolitan County. Evans Troup All census tracts in the Fannin Turner county qualify as rural. Franklin Union Bonner Gilmer Upson Boundary Glascock Ware Gordon Warren Butte Grady Washington This county is eligible Greene Wayne even though it is Habersham Webster designated as a Hancock Wheeler Metropolitan County. Hart White All census tracts in the Irwin Wilcox county qualify as rural. Jackson Wilkes Jeff Davis Wilkinson Camas Jefferson Caribou Jenkins GUAM Cassia Clark Johnson All of Guam Laurens Clearwater Lumpkin HAWAII Custer Macon Elmore Miller Hawaii Mitchell Franklin This county is eligible Montgomery 4 of 48 Updated 12/31/2018 even though it is Cass Richland designated as a Christian Saline Metropolitan County. Clark Schuyler All census tracts in the Clay Scott county qualify as rural. Coles Shelby Crawford Stephenson Fremont Cumberland Union Gooding Douglas Wabash Idaho Edgar Warren Jerome Edwards Washington This county is eligible Effingham Wayne even though it is Fayette White designated as a Franklin Whiteside Fulton Metropolitan County. INDIANA All census tracts in the Gallatin county qualify as rural. Greene Adams Hamilton Blackford Latah Hancock Cass Lemhi Hardin Clinton Lewis Henderson Crawford Lincoln Iroquois Daviess Madison Jasper Decatur Minidoka Jefferson DeKalb Oneida Jo Daviess Dubois Payette Johnson Fayette Power Knox Fountain Shoshone LaSalle Franklin Teton Lawrence Fulton Lee Twin Falls Gibson Livingston Grant This county is eligible Logan even though it is Greene Marion Henry designated as a Mason Metropolitan County. Huntington Massac Jackson All census tracts in the McDonough county qualify as rural. Jay Montgomery Jefferson Valley Morgan Jennings Washington Moultrie Knox Ogle Kosciusko ILLINOIS Perry Lagrange Pike Lawrence Adams Pope Brown Marshall Pulaski Martin Bureau Putnam Carroll Miami Randolph Montgomery 5 of 48 Updated 12/31/2018 Noble Clarke Pocahontas Orange Clay Poweshiek Parke Clayton Ringgold Perry Clinton Sac Pike Crawford Shelby Pulaski Davis Sioux Randolph Decatur Tama Ripley Delaware Taylor Rush Des Moines Union Spencer Dickinson Van Buren Starke Emmet Wapello Steuben Fayette Wayne Switzerland Floyd Webster Tipton Franklin Winnebago Fremont Winneshiek Union Greene Worth This county is eligible Hamilton Wright even though it is Hancock designated as a Hardin KANSAS Metropolitan County. Henry Allen All census tracts in the Howard county qualify as rural. Anderson Humboldt Atchison Wabash Ida Barber Warren Iowa Barton Wayne Jackson Bourbon White Jasper Brown Jefferson Chase IOWA Keokuk Chautauqua Kossuth Cherokee Adair Lee Adams Cheyenne Louisa Clark Allamakee Lucas Appanoose Clay Lyon Cloud Audubon Mahaska Boone Coffey Marion Comanche Buchanan Marshall Buena Vista Cowley Mitchell Crawford Butler Monona Calhoun Decatur Monroe Dickinson Carroll Montgomery Cass Edwards Muscatine Elk Cedar Obrien Cerro Gordo Ellis Osceola Ellsworth Cherokee Page Chickasaw Finney Palo Alto Ford 6 of 48 Updated 12/31/2018 Franklin Scott Green Geary Seward Harlan Gove Sheridan Harrison Graham Sherman Hart Grant Smith Hickman Gray Stafford Hopkins Greeley Stanton Jackson Greenwood Stevens Johnson Hamilton Thomas Knott Harper Trego Knox Haskell Wallace Laurel Hodgeman Washington Lawrence Jewell Wichita Lee Kearny Wilson Leslie Kiowa Woodson Letcher Labette Lewis Lane KENTUCKY Lincoln Livingston Lincoln Adair Logan Logan Anderson Lyon Lyon Ballard Madison Marion Barren Magoffin Marshall Bath Marion McPherson Bell Marshall Meade Boyle Martin Mitchell Breathitt Mason Montgomery Breckinridge McCracken Morris Caldwell McCreary Morton Calloway Menifee Nemaha Carlisle Mercer Neosho Carroll Metcalfe Ness Carter Monroe Norton Casey Montgomery Osborne Clay Morgan Ottawa Clinton Muhlenberg Pawnee Crittenden Nelson Phillips Cumberland Nicholas Pratt Elliott Ohio Rawlins Estill Owen Reno Fleming Owsley Republic Floyd Perry Rice Franklin Pike Rooks Fulton Powell Rush Garrard Pulaski Russell Graves Robertson Saline Grayson 7 of 48 Updated 12/31/2018 Rockcastle La Salle MARYLAND Rowan Lincoln Russell Madison Caroline Simpson Morehouse Dorchester Taylor Natchitoches