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title: 'rurality: Classification and Scoring of U.S. County and ZIP Code Rurality'
version: 0.2.0.9000
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rurality
- type: url
  value: https://rurality.app
abstract: 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.
authors:
- family-names: Wimpy
  given-names: Cameron
  email: cwimpy@astate.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049-5229
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'rurality: Rurality Classification and Scoring for U.S. Counties and ZIP
    Codes'
  authors:
  - family-names: Wimpy
    given-names: Cameron
    email: cwimpy@astate.edu
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049-5229
  year: '2026'
  url: https://github.com/cwimpy/rurality
  notes: R package version 0.2.0.9000
repository: https://cwimpy.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/cwimpy/rurality
commit: 0ffa8685c98a5cc570de3502bb8372fed3aeb45b
url: https://cwimpy.github.io/rurality/
date-released: '2026-04-22'
contact:
- family-names: Wimpy
  given-names: Cameron
  email: cwimpy@astate.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049-5229