Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How can we measure rurality?
- Mobile phone coverage
- Terrain influencing coverage
- Broadband service
- Retail network
- Very rural
- No mobile phone coverage
- No services
- No street lighting
- Poor quality roads
- Very Urban
- Total coverage
- Many services
- Plenty of street lighting
- Best quality roads
- Cloke's index of Rurality 1971
- % of workers in agriculture and farming
- Mechanisation + changes in agriculture
- Decrease in agriculture population
- % population over 65yrs
- More retired in rural areas
- Higher proportion of elderly to young people
- % working age population 16-65
- Varies with distance from employment
centres and proportion in higher
education
- Distance from urban area
- Greater distance = more rural areas
- % population change among resident population
- Rising due to in-migration but falling in remote rural areas
- % employed outside of settlement