Rural-Urban Continuum Codes
USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
- License
- Public domain
- Commercial
- Yes
- Format
- CSV
- Coverage
- United States and territories (counties)
- Last updated
- Added to findgis 31 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Irregular
Tags
The 2023 codes split metropolitan counties into three groups and nonmetropolitan counties into six, using that year's OMB metro areas.
Source and attribution
- Publisher
- USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
- License
- Public domain
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- No
- Modification allowed
- See publisher
- Redistribution allowed
- See publisher
- Share-alike
- No
- Region
- United StatesUS
- Type
- Vector
- Time
- 1974–2023
- Download
- 2023 codes (CSV, 0.6 MB)
- Extent
- -179.217.6-64.571.4West, south, east, north. Approximate region extent.
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