What does RUCA stand for?

Rural-Urban Commuting Area (demographic studies; USDA)

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Known as the Rural-Urban Commuting Area codes (RUCA), this coding system accounts for within-county diversity by using codes to measure residential commuting flow to other coded areas within immediate and adjacent counties (USDA 2005).

Substance abuse treatment with rural adolescents: issues and outcomes

The counties classified as urban (Figure 2) were further categorized by census tract according to Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes (RUCA) (Economic Research Service, 2000).

Human migration analysis of the Austin-round rock and San Antonio, ...