Mapping the Socioeconomic Landscape of Rural Sweden: Towards a Typology of Rural Areas

Martin Hedlund

Regional Studies, 2016, vol. 50, issue 3, 460-474

Abstract: H edlund M. Mapping the socioeconomic landscape of rural Sweden: towards a typology of rural areas, Regional Studies . Definitions of the rural have been the subject of numerous academic papers. This paper argues that the a priori urban-rural continuum model should be abandoned in favour of a more open approach. In advancing this argument, a socioeconomic typology of rural Sweden is developed by means of cluster analysis. A total of 3983 areas were sorted into five clusters and 16 sub-clusters. One-third of the rural population lives in the middle-class countryside within the urban shadow (12%) and working-class countryside within the urban shadow (22%); the bulk of the rural population lives in countryside outside the urban shadow (25%) and manufacturing periphery (28%); and a smaller share resides in the resource periphery (12%). It is concluded that location-specific typologies based on high-resolution data that avoid a priori assumptions of rurality give great insight into rural heterogeneity.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2014.924618

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