Is Nonmetropolitan America being repopulated? The evidence from Pennsylvania’s minor civil divisions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10968899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wilbur Zelinsky (Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 13-39 |
| Publication date | 1978-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Demography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2060488 |
| PMID | 631395 |
| OpenAlex | W2051122905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 1 |
We analyze population change and net migration, by age and sex, from 1940 to 1970, for 1,834 Nonmetropolitan Pennsylvania Minor Civil Divisions (MCD’s) classified by residence, population potential, socioeconomic status, and distance from metropolitan centers. Our analysis indicates, as expected, reconcentration of residents from both urban and remoter nonmetropolitan localities into exurban peripheries 25 to 35 miles from metropolitan centers. Since 1960, however, a “turnaround” appears in many truly rural tracts, which have been experiencing an influx or retention of persons 35 years of age and older. Statistical explanations are strongest for males in poor, isolated places, weakest for more accessible, socioeconomically advanced places and their female inhabitants. Throughout the study period and area, nonurban MCD’s register more positively than the rural
Archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Metropolitan area · Minor (academic · Political science · Population · Residence · Rural area · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Urbanization and City Planning
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Highly cited | No |