rurality: Classification and Scoring of U.S. County and ZIP Code Rurality

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.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: dplyr, rlang, stringr
Suggests: ggplot2, knitr, rmarkdown, sf, tigris, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-04-15
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rurality
Author: Cameron Wimpy ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Cameron Wimpy <cwimpy at astate.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/cwimpy/rurality/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/cwimpy/rurality, https://rurality.app
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: rurality citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: rurality results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rurality.html , rurality.pdf
Vignettes: Getting Started with rurality (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: rurality_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rurality_0.1.0.zip, r-release: rurality_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: rurality_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rurality_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): rurality_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rurality_0.1.1.tgz
Old sources: rurality archive

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