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More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.

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WASHINGTON -- More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on ...

Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it’s not because people are leaving. It’s just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing its definition of an urban area. Under the new ...

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Houston’s urban area, which Rice researcher Stephen Klineberg has long referred to as the “blob that ate east Texas,” is about to gobble its way across an important boundary, opening up the ...

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Video: Census changes several states' representationMore than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of ...