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 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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...