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What is rural?“The problem of defining "rural" is not new. People know when they are rural, but such perception does not satisfy demographers, policymakers, or educational researchers.
After all, difficult policy decisions have to be made and resources have to be allocated on some quantifiable basis. Numbers, however,
miss the essence of what it means to be rural, and seldom satisfy those on the receiving end of the definition. Rural people know that rural Maine is not like rural Texas, which in turn is
not like rural Georgia or Alaska. “Source:
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-929/concept.htm
SBA Definition of a “Small Business”
• 500 employees for most manufacturing and mining industries
• 100 employees for all wholesale trade industries
Source: http://www.sba.gov/size/indexfaqs.html
Persons Per Square Mile (2000)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/EIB4/EIB4.pdf
Rural Wisdom
Growing Up “On the Farm”
“When I graduated eight grade from a Wisconsin one-room country school, I looked forward to attending high school in Wild Rose, some four miles from our farm. I suspect it was during the first few weeks in high school that I discovered, firsthand, the differences between city kids and country kids. We country kids learned quickly that we were supposedly inferior to the more sophisticated high school freshmen who had grown up in town”.
Nucor Steel“Nucor built its entire system on the
idea that you can teach farmers how to make steel, but you can’t teach a farmer work ethic to people who don’t have it in the first place. So instead of setting up mills in traditional steel towns like Pittsburgh and Gary, it located its plants in places full of real farmers who go to bed early, rise at dawn, and get right to work without fanfare.”
Southwest Wisconsin
• How many of you grew up on a farm?
• How many of you have visited a farm in the last year?
The Regional Village
• Robert Dick, UWEX, 1992
Source: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/documents/regional_village.pdf
Rural America at a Glance
• http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB4/
Who has created a definition of “rural”
• The U.S. Census Bureau
• Office of Management and Budget
• Economic Research Service
Source:
• http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/ruraldef/ruraldeffaq.php#major
In Iowa County Wisconsin (Home of Lands End) 4,007 workers commute into Iowa
County to work. Of the 12,467 employed Iowa County
residents, how many travel outside the county to work?
439
1,110
2,344
4,547
Live In: Work In: Count: Travel
To: From: Count::
Iowa Co. WI
Iowa Co. WI
7,920 Iowa Co. WI
Iowa Co. WI 7,920
Dane Co. WI
3,155 Grant Co. WI
1,494
Grant Co. WI
446 Dane Co. WI 928
Sauk Co. WI
387 Lafayette Co. WI
795
Lafayette Co. WI
141 Sauk Co. WI 298
Richland Co. WI
129 Richland Co. WI
203
Green Co. WI
55 Green Co. WI
44
Dubuque Co. IA
42 Crawford Co. WI
36
Jefferson Co. WI
33 Columbia Co. WI
25
Columbia Co. WI
25 Portage Co. WI
25
Cook Co. IL 16 Cook Co. IL 21
Crawford Co. WI
11 Winnebago Co. WI
16
Elsewhere 107 Jo Daviess Co. IL
12
Grand Total
12,467 Rock Co. WI 11
Vernon Co. WI
10
Dubuque Co. IA
10
Elsewhere 79
Grand Total 11,927
11,927 -7,920 =4,007
Source:www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/CommunityIndicators_workerflow.htm
% Change in Residents Employed Locally (1990-2000)
18%
9%8%
-2%
-6%
19%
23%
15%
8%10%
16%
13%
10%
1% 0%
-10%
-5%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
Dane Iowa Wisconsin Grant Lafayette
Sum of % Change in residents employed locally Sum of % Change in residents employed
Sum of % Change in Population
Importers/Exporters of Jobs (# of jobs in the county - # of residents employed,
divided by residents that are employed).
10%
-16%
-36%
-4%
-40%
-30%
-20%
-10%
0%
10%
20%
Dane Grant Iowa Lafayette
Commute Time (minutes)
Place 1990 2000 Change Change (%) Days Commuting* Value at $10 per hour
Lancaster 14.2 18.8 4.6 32% 20 $1,628.06
Platteville 13.0 16.7 3.6 28% 18 $1,445.22
Potosi 22.7 26.0 3.3 15% 28 $2,254.07
Mineral Point 15.7 22.7 7.0 44% 25 $1,969.30
Highland 17.9 27.1 9.2 51% 29 $2,345.63
Dodgeville 15.1 16.3 1.2 8% 18 $1,415.14
Darlington 14.9 19.8 4.9 33% 21 $1,718.42
Hollandale 21.7 37.1 15.4 71% 40 $3,214.24
Livingston 21.6 24.3 2.8 13% 26 $2,106.94
Benton 23.5 24.9 1.3 6% 27 $2,155.53
*Assumes 52 week, 5 days a week, 8 hour days (Column C * 2 trips*260 days/480 minutes (60*8))
What are the Community Impacts of Commuting?
• Where do commuters do their shopping?
• What is the expense of commuting?• How much time is spent commuting
that could have been spent on income earning activities, or community and family building activities?
• What is the environmental impact and transportation impact of commuters?
Contact Information:Your County UW Extension Office
(Community Resource Development Educator)
Center for Community Economic Development
610 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53703http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/
Andy [email protected]
Recommended Reading:
Community Indicators, Center For Community Economic Development, University of Wisconsin
Extension, http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/indicate.html
Cultural Map of Wisconsin, Woodward, Ostergren, Brouwer, Hoelscher, Hane, University of Wisconsin
Press, http://sco.wisc.edu/pubs/maps_pubs.php#cultural
Wisconsin’s Past and Present, A Historical Atlas, The Wisconsin Cartographers’ Guild