The Daily Yonder: Foreign-Born Residents Account For Most Rural Population Growth
Monday, November 6, 2017
Nonmetro population growth, 2010-15; image credit: The Daily Yonder
“Counties are not losing population randomly,” said Ken Johnson, senior demographer, University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy. “The people who leave rural counties tend to be young adults. So when a county loses those young people, it loses a lot of its potential, too. You’re not just losing those young adults, you’re losing the people who are going to produce the next generation.”
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