Spatial Mobility of the Rural Population with Respect to Local Areas

Previous studies of spatial mobility show that the rural population is a highly stable one, the majority of persons never moving far from the place of origin. In the present study the three variable essential to the measurement of population. Mobility with reference to a local area-origin of the resident population, circulation of the resident families, and dispersion of adult children reared by these resident families-were plotted by radial distance both in miles and by political subdivision. The most significant finding is that the mobility about the local area of polarization involves short distances, primarily, and falls aways from the polar center after the manner of a hyperbolic surface, with occasional radiating inequalities which indicate favored routes of migration. This phenomenon is sufficiently general in occurrence to be designated as the "Law of Limited Circulation of Population."

Economic geography · Geographic mobility · Geography · Internal migration · Polarization (electrochemistry) · Population · Sociology · Demography · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies