During this 2009–2018 span, urban vs. rural differences began to widen. Job growth and in-migration to Iowa’s metropolitan areas drove most of the home sales gains. Polk County (Des Moines ...

Iowa's urban-rural divide has been in the works for a decade now, and it's no longer a growing trend: It's the new normal. Democrats own the five counties with the largest populations; Republicans ...

Iowa’s most populous counties and those with a public ... “To me, it's not a political game at all. It is rural representation versus the urban. She and Sen. David Sires, R-Cedar Falls ...

Governor DeSantis received 22% of the urban vote, compared to Haley’s 21%. Keokuk County, Iowa, a rural county of 9,600, showed the most support for Trump on Monday night. Three quarters of ...

There are many stories told and assumptions made about this urban/rural divide. IPR’s Sheila Brummer is based in western Iowa and covers ... data with a massive county-level aggregate data ...

“After 2016, there were real questions about whether rural Iowa had been lost to Democrats for good, and whether Iowa was going to be put into this category of safe Republican s ...

Iowa's population has ... continue to concentrate in urban, suburban and metropolitan areas. Education is a major factor behind this change. The National Rural Education Association's 2023 report ...

"Rural Iowa doesn’t always feel like our small towns and our rural counties get their fair share. … This bill was our initial exploration on that." Stephen Gruber-Miller covers the Iowa ...

Kelcey Patrick-Ferree and Shannon Patrick live in Iowa City and write at www.ourlibertiesweprize.com. It’s conventional wisdom these days that America is divided between city and country, an ...

DES MOINES, Iowa ... to aid rural communities, but the measure would harm areas of the state that are often “drivers” in the state’s economy that will benefit surrounding counties.

and they were all urban or suburban counties. KFF Health News reporter, Tony Leys, dove into Iowa's rural hospitals, their closures, declining birth rates and the people left behind. You can read ...