rurality: Classification and Scoring of U.S. County and ZIP Code Rurality
Provides USDA Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC 2023), Rural-Urban Commuting Area codes (RUCA 2020), and a composite rurality score for all U.S. counties. Functions enable lookup by FIPS code, ZIP code, or county name, and easy merging with existing datasets. Data sources include the USDA Economic Research Service, U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, and Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | dplyr, rlang, stringr |
| Suggests: | ggplot2, knitr, rmarkdown, sf, tigris, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2026-04-10 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.rurality (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Cameron Wimpy 
[aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Cameron Wimpy <cwimpy at astate.edu> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/cwimpy/rurality/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/cwimpy/rurality, https://rurality.app |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | rurality citation info |
| Materials: | README |
| CRAN checks: | rurality results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | rurality.html , rurality.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Getting Started with rurality (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | rurality_0.1.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): rurality_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rurality_0.1.0.tgz |
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