Title:  Rural farm population
Column Name:  frur
Span:  1930
Units:  Persons
Format:  Integer

Rural farm population - 1930
The farm population comprises all persons living on farms, without regard to occupation, while rural is defined as all persons who are not urban, or residents of urban areas. The urban population generally comprises those persons residing in cities and other incorporated places having 2,500 inhabitants or more. This includes residents: of townships and other political subdivisions (not incorporated municipalities) with a total population of 10,000 or more and a population density of 1,000 or more per square mile; and of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island towns (townships) containing a village or thickly settled area of 2,500 or more inhabitants and comprising, either by itself or when combined with other villages within the same town, more than 50 percent of the total population of the town.

Source (where directly obtained):
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

Original Source:
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1930. Population, Volume III, Part 2. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932.