Rural is not dying, get over it. My likes populate content at reddit.com/r/ruralbychoice. Opinions are mine. z.umn.edu/narrativebook Chapter 9!
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Jan 22
Rethinking (Rural) Housing: How We're Getting it Wrong, Why It Matters Everywhere, and What to Do About It. Join us next Thursday at noon Central time. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Jan 10
"Manufacturing jobs, which peaked at 19.5 million in 1979, fell to under 11.5 million during the pandemic, while employment in finance and professional & business services soared from 12 million to 32 million. This economic shift brought with it a demographic realignment"
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Jan 10
"Perhaps the most striking statistic within the 2023 age estimates is the fact that since 2020, the country’s small towns & rural areas have been attracting younger adults at the highest rate in nearly a century"
Jan 10
"Manufacturing jobs, which peaked at 19.5 million in 1979, fell to under 11.5 million during the pandemic, while employment in finance and professional & business services soared from 12 million to 32 million. This economic shift brought with it a demographic realignment"
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Where Americans Choose to Move & Where They Leave: "I was surprised by the extent to which certain ecological regions correspond to the patterns on this map" bluebookmke.substack.com/p/w…
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3 Nov 2025
“In 2020, people overstated it. (But) they really underestimate the long-term impact as it rolls out over a decade or 2, how much things change. And I think we're going to be a very different country by 2030 if this trend we've seen the last 3 years now keeps going”
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The narrative that most #rural areas are dying? Not the full story, says @UMNExt's Ben Winchester. "Rural areas have not been dying. They grew . . . There was a brain gain of people in the '70s, '80s, and '90s that filled up almost every vacant home." aberdeennews.com/story/news/…
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11 Apr 2025
"This story of rural decline, however, fails to acknowledge that nonmetro population change is due to endogenous growth or decline in a fixed universe of nonmetro counties, & growth or decline from nonmetro-to-metro reclassification" rsfjournal.org/content/11/2/… cc: @GrokRural
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13 Mar 2025
We're in Virginia, #Minnesota next week for the 2025 Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities (CEC) conference! Huge thanks to this year's sponsors for making the event possible. @BlandinFound @IRRRB @GREnergyNews @StLouisCountyMN @EssentiaHealth @irontrailevents
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5 Mar 2025
Examining the Shift in Virginia’s Population Trends [presentation earlier today]: "In 2023, migration into rural communities remained near record highs" vapdc.org/2025-vapdc-winter-… cc @GrokRural
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13 Mar 2025
Young Adults Are Reviving Small Towns—& They’re Moving at the Highest Rate in a Decade: "Since 2020, 75% of the growth in the 25-to-44 demographic has been seen in cities with populations of less than 1 million, or in rural enclaves" realtor.com/news/trends/youn…
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11 Mar 2025
As its residents age, Yellow Medicine County faces a population decline. But @UMNExt's Ben Winchester paints a more positive picture of the #rural county's future if it can address its housing shortage.
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Ben Winchester retweeted
15 Nov 2024
Rust Belt demographics: "Most bedrooms in the US are owned by people between 50 & 70 years old (Figure 1). Many of these bedrooms are less than fully occupied, especially once owners enter their 60s" minneapolisfed.org/article/2…
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16 Nov 2024
"Owner-occupant applications for people living in urban neighborhoods of metropolitan areas looking to buy in rural neighborhoods or outside of metropolitan areas ...have experienced a sustained increase of nearly 20% above their pre-pandemic trend" fanniemae.com/research-and-i…
16 Nov 2024
Orlampa: "The migration — & property sprawl — reflects a significant kind of growth seen all over the country *this decade* ...the rise of the far-flung exurbs" [emphasis added] apnews.com/article/census-ex…
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18 Nov 2024
Rural America at a Glance [2024]: "The rapid increase in the nonmetro older population during the 2010s & early 2020s resulted in a large increase in the number of older age counties, defined as those with 20% or more of their population age 65 or older" ers.usda.gov/publications/pu…
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Ben Winchester retweeted
12 Nov 2024
Rural America at a Glance: 2024 Edition highlights recent social and economic conditions in rural areas of the United States.
Learn more: ers.usda.gov/publications/pu…
ALT The cover a report titled Rural America at a Glance 2024 Edition.
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Ben Winchester retweeted
6 Sep 2024
What you think about "Flyover Country" in the USA is like most perceptions may be dead wrong. Listen. #midwest @TSDS_Culver @GrokRural @BABLEconnect @nbcchicago #icfsummit @ruralbroadband
6 Sep 2024
A new Intelligent Community Podcast dropped this week!
Tune in to "Why 20 States in America are Being Reborn" featuring a conversation with Heartland Forward about place-based economic development, the workforce of these 20 states & more:
Listen now: vist.ly/3mfnptz
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Ben Winchester retweeted
20 Aug 2024
Minnesota State Fair happening: Aug. 26, 10 a.m., #UMN Extension's Ben Winchester @GrokRural will be part of the town hall #Rural Voice project w/ @Tim_Penny and @KerriMPR . Recorded/aired on @MPRnews - register to attend. ruralvoice.org/
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Ben Winchester retweeted
12 Aug 2024
🏙️🏡 Join us for Side by Side, a new podcast with @umn_ext_cd's @EllenWolter that explores the interdependent relationship between rural and urban spaces. Weekly episodes every Wed starting Aug 28. #UMNProud〽 Learn more➡️ z.umn.edu/SideBySide
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Ben Winchester retweeted
12 Aug 2024
Are Millennials leaving town? Reconciling peak Millennials & youthification hypotheses: “Using the 1962–2019 Current Population Survey (CPS), the paper first analyzes the current status of Millennials” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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1 Aug 2024
Upcoming webinar: On 8/28, Extension's @GrokRural will be presenting on the dynamic nature of rural life and what it means for tourism, marketing, transportation planning, resident recruitment, and housing. More info and register: cts.umn.edu/events/seminars/….
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