![]() Although many New England towns were distinctly rural throughout and others contained densely populated areas, the Census Bureau considered all towns of 2,500 or more inhabitants as urban. In New England, however, it was not typically the practice to set off densely populated areas from towns (townships) as cities unless they obtained a population of ten thousand or more. Beginning in 1910, the Census Bureau defined as urban population "that residing in cities and other incorporated places of 2,500 inhabitants or more, including New England towns of that size." The Bureau went on to note that in most regions, densely populated areas of 2,500 are set off from rural territory and incorporated as municipalities (cities, towns, villages, boroughs, etc.). The Census Office first used an urban definition of 8,000 or more inhabitants in the 1880 census, and provided a tabulation of the number of places designated as urban and the size of urban population back to 1790. (All areas not classified as urban are designated rural.) Definitions of "urban" vary from year to year - see the background and comparability sections - but the term generally denotes all cities and incorporated places of 2,500+ inhabitants. It is one of the most used geographic variables and one of the most problematic. URBAN indicates whether a household's location was urban or rural. ![]()
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