How can we measure rurality?

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

Resource summary

	Created by RoryFlynn2 about 11 years ago