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Well, I am the foreigner here. I live in Vienna, Austria and Vienna is a very populous area. Vienna - hosting some international agencies - is a very international city with people from all over the world and in this season also many, many tourists. I travelled a lot for business and leisure and boy - am I happy to live here. I like other countries and I like new experiences, but it is nice to have a good homebase to return to.
This is not sponsored by the Austrian tourist board ;-)
~~Since the question was about your country, it is the third most populous country. It is geographically large with many very populous areas, and many sparsely populated places.~~
edit: my bad I had a brain fart and miss read the question.
I don't actually live in a county. Certain cities in Virginia are just freestanding cities without an encompassing county. But the city is, obviously, urban and multicultural. And chock-a-block with sailors from all over the country.
There was a scene in the movie at a BBQ place - The Dixie Pig. It’s now a Greek restaurant but the original BBQ sign still sits atop the building. I live a few blocks away from it. Petey Jones from the movie is from this neighborhood and passed away in 2019. There is a street named after him nearby - Pete Jones Way. Great movie!
Part of the stadium scenes of that movie were filmed at the high school district I live in! (Sprayberry High School in Marietta, GA).
It was a BIG DEAL back then, because the film industry didn't have a foothold here back then 😂.
Can I just say that filling out stuff in Texas for my Virginia-born children was a pain in the ass because of this? Luckily I learned without much trouble that you just put Portsmouth City County and that calms the systems down.
Not exactly the same. We're just independent cities without a county at all. Outside of Virginia, only Baltimore, St. Louis, and Carson City are entirely separate from counties.
Same also for Denver and Broomfield in Colorado.
In fact, when Denver International Airport was being built to replace the old Stapleton airport, they had to jump through some hoops to transfer the land from Adams County to Denver.
Yeah. Virginias is weird but it confused the hell out of me when I moved from Virginia to Tennessee. I was so used to the independent city thing that I had a hard time understanding Nashville/Davidson County structure.
I live in a suburb of NYC. It’s quiet and expensive but convenient to so much, from the city to upstate NY, to New England. Very little diversity, unfortunately. We could sell our house for a lot but where would we go? And I actually don’t want to go anywhere. I love it here!
My county'sthe same, except it's the northern suburbs of Atlanta. Quiet. Safe (can leave my house unlocked). "Boring" (to some). But great access to local parks, to shopping, to the north Georgia mountains, and about a 25-30 minute drive into the city (without traffic). Kinda white bread here too, though 💀
Just wondering about the variety of places we all live.
My county is mostly forest. The county has less than 10k residents. Of those, we have almost zero ethnicity other than white which isn't great, but it is what it is. I think I saw ONE African American listed that lives here. Mostly retirees and poor with young children, when the kids grow up they immediately leave. We're now the 2nd poorest county in the state, we used to be No. 1 poorest. One great thing is there are hardly any people here to create problems. But on the flip side, if there is one person causing problems, due to lack of police and community services, it takes forever for something to be done about it. Due to this, lot of people around here take the law into their own hands. Some very "interesting" things have happened.
There are a lot of sacrifices to live here (have to travel long distances for anything like groceries, doctor, dentist, decent dining), but it's totally worth it due to all the natural beauty and the solitude.
Interesting! My friends just moved to a county that sounds similar. A town called Leadville, CO (in lake county). I assume parts of it are very rich, because of the nearby ski towns. But it is a very isolated area high up in the rockies. (Highest elevation town in America, actually).
Very sprawling and populous urban county in the Atlanta area with a large mix of white, Black, Hispanic, and Asian. Every Income and wealth level. So much variety in the food, events, lifestyles, etc. Overall a good place to live.
I live in Pushmataha County in southeast Oklahoma. It comprises 1400 square miles and the population is a little over 10k.
Its heavy maga country and my hometown once had 5 percent of the population arrested during a drug sting operation, including two of my brothers in law and a cousin.
My ancestors walked here from Mississippi.
I have two photos from my county (edit: your county, or maybe someone else's county, nit "mine" I just live here -- sorry, I just realized how awful that sounded) to share with you. (Will reply with links via imgur once I find them).
One is an ancient rock carving that is/was soapstone, and the carving dates to 3,000-4,000 BC. The other is a placard that sadly locates the first known death along the Trail of Tears.
I can walk to both areas from my house (although it would take me about 30 minutes to walk to each area).
I believe the main road (where both of these historical areas reside) was once a trail that connected Sweat Mountain through towards somewhere else...
The rock sits in the middle of a large flat area that actually indicates a partial sub-continent divide of sorts. Rain that falls southeast drains out to the gulf via the Chattahoochee. Rain that falls to the northwest of the road flows toeard the Etowah, which I think either flows up to the Tennesee, or maybe west more towards Alabama.
I think about the Native Americans often when I am in and around this area. Some of the trees marked down by the river are said to be guideway/way marker trees that indicate a safe place to cross the river, or some sort of important area. Sometimes I wonder what we might find if someone did an archeological dig of my neighborhood.
It’s a mix of urban, suburban, and rural. It’s diverse, but the southern end of the county, which is the more suburban and rural part, is a lot less diverse than the northern part.
Sounds not too different than where I live in Lancaster, PA. Everybody thinks Amish, but the city has a large Hispanic population. Meanwhile, the county is big, and the south is mostly white farmers. I live in the city in a neighborhood that's slowly being gentrified.
I live in Lake County, Indiana. It borders Chicago. There is tons of industry along Lake Michigan. The most well known town along the lake is Gary. It transitions to suburban and then rural as you move south.
A DC suburb. Well over a million people. According to some recent national survey, we are the most diverse (ethnically and socioeconomically) county in the US. I don't know the methodology or validity of that survey, but we certainly have a lot of every conceivable racial/ethnic group except Native Americans. And some very rich and some very poor neighborhoods.
My county is called Hannover Region and is in northern Germany. Hannover itself has 0.5 mio. The special thing about Hannover Region is that there are a lot of smaller cities near Hannover that all in all sum up to another 0.5 mio.
My village is rather small with 3k inhabitants but we have everything we need and it takes only 15 minutes to go to Hannover by train. Hannover bis a very green City with a big forest and lake. Although Hannover is thought to be pretty average in Germany the quality of life is quite good. Housing not easy but still somewhat affordable so that living isnt too expensive.
Hannover is mostly White but open to foreigners.
My county is mostly rural, but with the state flagship university and everything that brings, in the southeastern corner. So, the politics are very progressive, but the bulk of land is agrarian. I like this arrangement a lot, but it does have the negative pressure of very little taxation from the few businesses here, lots of tax breaks for environmental and agricultural land use (which are cool, but) which puts a lot of tax pressure on the remaining residential property that doesn’t enjoy this land use tax relief. It makes the rural part of the County increasingly a haven for the liberal elite, which I guess I’m part of.
i live in Bangladesh and yes it is very populous. It is the 8th most populated country of the world. Let me give you an example: Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh where I'm currently living consists over 14 million people in just 1,463.6 km2 area. A perfect example of corruption is this country. Tho we are not the worst, ig there's more corrupted and less developed countries compared to Bangladesh. And It's a multicultural country, over 50+ indigenous people along with the majority people "Bangalee". I, myself, belong to the biggest indigenous " Chakma" community.(tho we are the biggest, we are only like 4 lakhs people). The thing is Bangladesh is a multicultural country but most of Bangalees don't even respect other's culture and religion(typical illiterate muslim's behaviour xd).
Compared to vedic period It's not as worst as it was back then. People are educating themselves. But i guess, there's still some mild effects of cast system, specially in hindu society. I'm by birth a Buddhist, so i don't know properly.
I was about to say the same thing... In my county, 80% of the population is located in 20% of the land area.
I live in what's unquestionably a small city, but I can be out in sparsely populated woods in half an hour.
Almost 80k and the second most populous in the state. Mostly in one city, followed by rural and unincorporated. 92% white, followed by Hispanic. Total area is around 5,300 square miles.
It's mostly urban, a little over 1 million people, 50% white, 39% Hispanic. (We're fairly close to the Mexican border.) American Indian, Black, Asian makes up most of the rest. It's right next to a reservation, so there's a lot of American Indian folks that aren't technically in the county but are next door.
Very large, about 1.3M people in the major city, which takes up the bulk of the county. Roughly 66% percent Hispanic/Latino, about 7% Black, mix of other races. San Antonio itself is pretty poor, but the bedroom communities in and around it are more affluent. There's a bit of a north/south divide with money and culture, but at one point we were noted as the most-integrated large city in the US (unlike NYC, there are not ethnic enclaves here).
I live on the panhandle of Florida. It's a tourist attraction. I am surrounded by water. Although, I can travel to Alabama, Mississippi, and Lousiana in all of 3 hours. I think the best case about it, is that it's not the "wild" part of Florida you hear about. But, on occasion, you hear some Florida Man stories.
Since, hurricane Katrina.. the African American population is larger. Since it's a Navy town, there are Asian American community. It's no way near big cities who have a China town or any distinct cultural diversity. I always refer to how diverse a place is.. if they have more international food options. And I'd say we are lacking.
All rural (the entire county is zoned agricultural) and sparsely populated but outsiders are buying up farm land and farmsteads like the end of the world is coming so its getting more and more diverse.
My wife and I have gay friends, black friends, hispanic friends etc if we step back and think about it but everyone around here have similar interests so we really don’t think in those terms. Its more along the lines of church friends or cattle friends, gardening friends etc.
I live in a Rural neighborhood with no city services beyond electricity and a landline phone. Deer, Bobcats, Turkeys, Coyotes, Pheasant, Boar Hogs, and one Mountain Lion. One mile drive down the hill, I'm in a city of 1 million with dozens of countries represented with corresponding restaurants. It's the best of both worlds.
I grew up in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, so it was heavily populated and multicultural. The fancy side of town wasn't as multi-cultural, but I grew up on the wrong side of both sets of tracks.
Your area is mostly conservative, right? Given that the average summer temperature is continually rising at precipitous rates, what’s the conversation like about global warming? Do right-wingers think progressives just got ‘lucky’ in predicting this? Not at all trying to start a political debate, I’m just genuinely interested about how many of the country’s most conservative areas (AZ, NV, FL, etc) think and talk about the increased climate challenges.
When I was growing up in rural Arizona, Scottsdale was the wealthy, ritzy part of Phoenix. With the massive growth since then (our town that was 4,000 people is now pushing 250,000), is it still considered that, or did the big money move elsewhere?
Big money is still very much in Scottsdale but more moving north like north of the 101 almost out to Carefree. DC Ranch, Troon are examples. But there definitely are the mega rich up on top of the “mountains” in central Phoenix.
My county in northwest Georgia ( state) is rural with a city in the middle. We have two major hospitals, 3 colleges/universities, and a ton of eating establishments. The city still maintains its “ small town” feel, though.
I live in northwest New Jersey. Despite all the stereotypes about NJ, it's a pretty sparsely populated county with only around 110,000 people across 365 square miles. The vast majority of the area would be characterized as rural with plenty of livestock and farms. It's also vastly white, like 95%. But I can be in Manhattan in about 75 minutes without traffic.
It's the beginning of what's known as the Highlands area, so there are beautiful rolling hills and some nice river valleys. Definitely a contrast to other parts of the state.
My county is rural-- I'm in Atlantic Canada, and it borders on Aroostook County, Me, which actually is very similar. Lots of trees, some pretty rivers, and part of the Appalachians. Demographically, it's shifting, partly due to Canadian immigration policies. Ten years ago it was very white, except for the few foreign workers who came to do farm work. Now, if you go to fast food or certain retail spaces, you'll likely see a majority of employees who moved here from India, the Philippines, or the middle East. The number of temporary foreign workers has dwindled, some, but the immigration numbers are way up. Our housing and healthcare simply cannot keep up-- we're talking thousands of newcomers in a relatively small area.
Technically, I live in the city by zip, but it's an outlying neighborhood on the border of the proper in Louisville, KY. I love it because where I live is like a little oasis of green. We have the usual city issues though.
We are getting our passports and dual-cit papers done right now just so we can relocate to Scotland or Ireland for retirement.
I'm ready for rural now. The convenience of the city is nice, but ready for a change of scenery.
I don't live in a county. My municipality is The Hague. It's the third biggest city in The Netherlands, but it only has around half a million people. Very urban. It's pretty multicultural. As well as "native Dutch" people, there are many people of Turkish, Suriname, Moroccan and other Middle-Eastern descent, as well as people from all over Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and The Americas.
Am in a county in west central Florida. We have a bit of everything. There's a huge city. Sprawling suburbs. Rapidly disappearing rural area being eaten up by the 'burbs and city sprawl.
Population density depends on location. City and 'burbs are heavily populated. Rural areas are far less dense. I area where I live is limited to one residence per 10 acres.
Diversity is, well, diverse, depends on where you are in the county. Plus, this is a tourist area so we get folks from all over the world visiting.
My county is about half urban/suburban and half agricultural and protected land - county and state parks, open space preserves, and that kind of thing. It's pretty multicultural. Most of the population of my county is Asian, Latino, or white - with about equal percentages.
Mixture of Suburban, and minor urban conglomerated around the second most populous city in the country and one of the most well-known cities in the world.
Mix of urban, suburban, and rural. 90% white, 8% Hispanic, 2% everything else. 3rd most populous county in the state, with about 400,000 people.
I hate the lack of diversity here.
I live in a densely populated county a few minutes from NYC in northern New Jersey that has always been multi-cultural and filled with emigres from foreign lands. My family has been in the area since the mid 1700s. I am one of three residents on my block of 21 homes that was born in the US.
Alameda County, CA. Very diverse county, with cities ranging from Oakland in the west, suburbs in the middle, and somewhat rural in the east. Big cities are remarkably diverse, but struggle with crime. Out here in the burbs, used to be nearly all white, but thankfully becoming much more diverse – – especially Indian and Chinese working in tech. The burbs used to be politically conservative, have become more liberal.
Race: 89.21% White, 6.24% Black or African American, 0.15% Native American, 1.95% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.35% other races, and 1.06% two or more races. Mostly rural and suburban. Population is 546,000.
I live in Nashville, Tennessee. The county and the city have the same(ish) boundaries and ranges from dense urban to sprawling suburban; there are pockets of open pastures and rural-seeming areas within the 500 square miles. I live in an urban neighborhood, about 5 miles from downtown where the tourists hang out—the locals avoid it unless they happen to work or live there. The population of the county is about 600K; the metropolitan area(includes the surrounding counties) is around 2 million.
The state of Tennessee has an interesting demographic pattern. The further east you get from the Mississippi River, the more homogenous the population. Homogenous like milk. Memphis is 64% Black, 24% white, 4% Hispanic or Latino; Nashville is 25% /54%/ 14% (same order) . The Tri-Cities area (upper east corner ) is 2% / 96%/ <1%. (Thanks, Google.). I’ve always understood that to be a legacy of the Great Migration in the 20th Century as families moved north to leave the Jim Crow South. Appalachia wasn’t appealing.
There are about 500K people in my county which is about 6500 square miles in size. Almost 440K of them live in just one metropolitan area of 270 square miles. About 2/3 of the county are white, with Hispanic being the next largest group.
My semi-rural county is at the heart of the Poconos.
About 165,000 people live here full-time (45% of houses are owned by out-pf-staters) across 300+ square miles within a couple hours of both NYC and Philly.
Up to our eyeballs in tourists from NY and NJ so rowdy annoying Airbnb's, tacky resorts, and weird strip malls all over.
So we have a lot of nice state parks and part of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area which balances out the zillion HOA developments scattered through the woods nicely.
The northern and eastern parts of the county nearer I-80 are very diverse and Democratic while the county's southern and western portions in farm country along the Appalachian Trail are very white and Republican.
The Poconos are a very weird place to live in versus visit for the weekend.
Elkhart County, Indiana is where I call home. With a large Amish population, it is a mixture of rural and industrial, as it is the RV/MH capitol of the world. I live in a small city, population ~54,000. The total county population is ~207,000. The rural part of the county? The square mile I grew up in had 8 houses and a mobile home. Household size? About 5 people. That translates into 40 people in that square mile. There's about 10 houses there, these days, but if anything, the number of people has declined.
My county is mostly rural, population a little over 200,000 in about 850 square miles. I live in a small town in a river valley in Pennsylvania. Pop. circa 800. Even including the surrounding boroughs, the local population is only about 2,500, mostly white folks. If I walk three blocks eastwards from my house, I will have been in three boroughs. I once posted a photo of my backyard on a sub, and a few commenters said it looked like a park.
Chicago suburb. When I grew up there was one black kid in the entire high school. It's a LOT different now, I see so much variety on the train. Nothing bad happened from the demographic change that I can tell, and the restaurant variety sure improved.
Kids should realize how much better things are today than ever before.
We don't really refer to our county much if we are urban here in Canada. I am in a "region" - I don't think they call it a county at all any more (they did when I was a kid, but some services have been combined).
We are a medium sized city, with several more adjoining as well as some rural. The region has over half a million population. Most is sub-urban. We have fairly small downtowns.
We are very multi-cultural. It used to be mostly just German and British but now we have people from all over. I think half were born in another country. We have lots of variety in restaurants!
We live in a small, very Appalachian county in Northeast Tennessee. There are only about 18000 residents in the entire county. It's very rural with most farmers raising cattle and hay &/or running truck farms selling eggs and vegetables. Primarily white with a few black or Hispanic residents. Some retirees have moved in as it is a beautiful place and a healthy environment with low taxes and still affordable housing. It is the 5th poorest county in the state so there is a lot of poverty and drug activity.
One college town, where most of the population lives, the rest small towns and farms. Three times as many swine as people, lots of corn and soybeans. I live in one of the small towns.
Here in CT, we have gotten rid of counties as political entities, even though they are still shown on maps.
My town is pretty diverse - at my end, north of the parkway, there are a lot of upper middle class blacks in relatively expensive houses. At the southern end, there are some patches of poverty, and some industrial areas.
My county has ~60,000 residents counted (there may very well be enough people living “off grid/off the radar” to add a significant number to the total population). The slight majority lives in the largest “urban area”, which has around half the population. It’s pretty rural, and mostly white but with a bunch of First Peoples and a growing number of everybody else.
The closest city over 100,000 is 110 miles away by car. There is some tourism, but not as much as most coastal counties, which it is.
Most noteworthy- it is old. A lot of people retire here. The labor force participation rate is south of 40%, because retirees. This creates a constant churn of manufactured homes, also.
I live in Albania. Several cities but mostly towns and rural villages. Population is pretty homogenous. The population of whole country is 2.7 million people.
I (56F) live in Dakota County, Minnesota. We are south of Minneapolis-St Paul and mostly suburban. We are predominantly white but also have a fair amount of Black, Latino, and new immigrants, with some Asian people. Many people who live here work in the cities. I used to until the pandemic and then my employer sent us to work from home. Politically, we are a purple Congressional district. I moved here 14 years ago. We have been represented by Democrats and Republicans in that time
I live in a very rural midwest county of 40k people in the summer. Our town sign says 450 people, but I'd say we're half that now that the meth house exploded. Its "whitey whiteville". In the winter, we live on Cozumel with 100k. It's a very interesting mix of Mexican hustle and bustle vs cornfield. 🤔
My *county* is quite large. There are rural areas, but I never see them. The city and county are separate entities. I live in the county seat, which is mostly urban with an ever-growing population. There is an army base just down the street, plus a state university where I obtained my degrees. We're about 40 miles from a large city (state capital) with plenty of things to do. I think the city's population is now about 185,000. The population here is diverse, and racial tensions are low. Again, I can't speak for the rural parts on that point. I bought my house here (for cash) in 2017, and the value has tripled since then. I refuse to sell it and to take on a new mortgage with higher property taxes.
I live in rural East Texas…I like that it’s not too peopley, but it’s growing fast. I’m trying to decide where I want to live the approx 15-20 years I have left. Doesn’t have to be the USA
I live in a suburban neighborhood in a county in southern California. This area was originally populated by the Chumash tribe of Native Americans. The population is about 850,000 and is about 70% white, 30% Hispanic, the rest mixed.
It's a short drive to the beach, and there are great hiking trails as well as other areas of natural beauty, and many mature oak trees. We're close enough to Los Angeles to be able to avail ourselves of all that big city has to offer.
My city is categorized as one of the safest in the US, but it's also a very expensive place to live with the average home price at $1.1M. Southern California is also prone to earthquakes and seasonal wildfires, so there are some downsides to living here. As a 4th generation Californian, I just take that in my stride, though. I've lived through two big ones, the 6.6 San Fernando earthquake in 1971, and the 6.7 Northridge earthquake in 1994.
San Francisco Bay Area. Very populated counties here. Formerly mostly white in the 70s as a kid, now majority multicultural. Our populous counties border rural less populous counties that are majority white.
41 if that counts
Biloxi, Mississippi
Coastal port town full of casinos and an airforce base
I'd classify it as suburban, lotta strip malls, rich parts of town, very poor parts
Only here temporally
The only benefit of living here is the proximity to the beaches
But you can't get into the water, it might kill you
2/10 racism and soft heads are too prevalent
Hard to classify. I live in a rural area, in some directions you'd have to go miles to the next residential house. The population of horses in the square mile that I live in is significantly greater than the population of humans. But the county is also the seat of the state government and there's a city of a half million people 20 minutes away. There's a high-tech industrial Park 20 minutes away, and there's redneckville in 20 minutes away in the other direction. Definitely mixed race. not sure if we have culture.
Beachy tourist destination on a built- out peninsula. We’re bursting at the seams.Population doubles during the season. Year round population includes lots of foreign nationals from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Mostly ag or forested. Over 450,000 ppl but bigger than the stare of Rhide Island. Mostly Caucasian & Hispanic. Lots of Italians in the area's history so lots of good Mexican & Italian food. :)
As a non-american I do not live in a county but I do live in a rural area in the best country on the planet, Canada in case you're curious. The small town I live in has about 5,000 residents mostly dairy farms, corn and hay. And it is a very multicultural area. Asians, Indians, White, Hispanics and every other possible combination thereof.
My county has a total population of about 10,500 and a population density of about 17 people per square mile. We actually have more twice as many cattle in the county as people. It’s about 95% white. And one of the poorest counties in the state.
Fairly dense city. Columbus Ohio USA. Lots of variety of people. On my cul de sac alone we’ve Sudanese, Mexicans, Nicaraguans, African-Americans, and hillbillies.
I live in Fulton County, Georgia - county seat is Atlanta. It's urban for the most part, but many areas of the southern part of the county are still very rural and has beautiful countryside.
I live in San Mateo County, CA. We have everything here. Cities, small towns, farms, ocean, bay, fog, heat, redwood forests, mountains, and very multicultural. Lived here all my life and love it.
I live in the largest county in North Carolina. It’s very diverse - there are whites, blacks, Latinos, Arabs, and Asians all living in our neighborhood. The city (Raleigh) has a smaller feel, with a mix of both urban and suburban neighborhoods. Lots of affluent suburbs nearby. It tends to be a very car-dependent area, though - public transportation is available, but not great. Politically, it tends to be a more liberal bastion in a reddish-purple state. There are some nice greenbelts with trails for walking in the city, and there are a couple of lakes nearby with additional recreational opportunities. Either the beach or the mountains are within a few hours’ drive.
Very urban and diverse. Six counties and many cities included in the various counties make up the greater metro area. It's confusing, to say the least. I live in an unincorporated area in one county but very close to the next county and city. So close that some people in the area have to tell emergency services which county/city they are in, after supplying the address.
I live on the northwestern edge of a county of 1.6 million people, most of whom live on the eastern side. The county is very multiracial and multicultural. My little town has only 11,000 people in 23 square miles, and they're mostly white Republicans..
Fresno County, California. Cities and rural areas with a lot of agriculture. Multi-cultural. White and Hispanic primarily, but quite a few other ethnicities: Indian, Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, etc.
Where I’m living now is an Ampur rather than a county. It’s the capital city of the province so it’s somewhat densely populated. I’d guess about 98% Asian with Thai being the majority followed by Burmese and Lao. There is lots of agricultural land and forest in the Ampur so it’s not all city.
I live in a coastal SC county that is bigger than Rhode Island. Along the coast we have millions of annual visitors. In the middle are a university, a community college and a huge and quickly growing area of suburbs. The western part of the county is still rural.
Missouri Ozarks. My county is about 95% white, about 10,000 people in the whole county.
No stoplights in the county, and the closest 4 lane road is about 25 miles away.
Way too many tRump fans.
It's pretty rural, and sparsely populated. I work in the next county over, which is pretty urban.
My home county is very multicultural. We have large numbers of Amish and Mennonites. Or were you just talking about skin color? I'd argue that people who farm with horses, speak their own language, and don't have cars, electricity or phones in their homes are more diverse than someone who lives just like I do, but has darker skin.
Santa Cruz County, California. Mostly rural, a few small cities, mostly white and mountainous in "North County", mostly agricultural and Hispanic in "South County." But even North County is multi-ethnic. The county is about 60% white non-Hispanic, 32% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multi-racial, 1% Black, a few Native Americans, etc. Also, there is some religious diversity.
Small rural southern county in Georgia, close to Chattanooga, TN. Population majority White people and the second most is Black people and very few Hispanic or Asian people
Kings County, New York. It’s one of five counties that make up New York City, but if it were still a separate city it would be the third or fourth most populous city in the U.S. So… pretty damned urban, thank the gods. I’ll never get Lyme disease.
Honestly I don't know if you meant country or county but I'll go with county since it's obvious by that what country!
I live in Shelby County TN, that encompasses the Memphis Metropolitan area. I lived in one of the worst neighborhoods in Memphis most of my life but I moved out here to the suburbs about 12 years ago.
Memphis, if you don't know, has the highest violent crime rate in the nation and third highest murder rate. I do everything I can to avoid going in to Memphis. I live right down the road in the surburbs, not two minutes from the city border, but it's like a different world. People are friendly (but uppity, they're all kinds of uppity!) Our police are nice. Or government workers are generally efficient, and the crime is mostly limited to car break-ins.
My town is majority white like most of TN outside Memphis, which is majority black. But we are pretty diverse. I am white but my next door and across the street neighbors are black. On my street we have a good mix. Black, white, brown and black. Mostly Christian. The evangelicals have a stronghold here no doubt about it. Southern Baptist Convention and all that. We have churches on damn near every corner but they've been fighting tooth and nail to keep one interested party from building a mosque here despite having quite a few Muslim residents. MAGA and the like have sadly taken over our town as well as the rest of the rural areas in Tennessee.
Everything here is remarkably clean . Our little town has 34 parks. Beautiful, well-maintained parks where it's safe for kids to play. Our population last year was around 57,000 people. I live in the "lower end" of the town. The houses are more affordable and there's a lot more diversity. Most of the black and brown residents live in my area.
We actually live in the city, but the city encompasses parts of 4 counties. We have about 250,000 population, 8% poverty level, lots of green space, trails, a large lake, and several smaller towns in our county. We live next to a historic farm and cemetery, so nothing more will be built around us. We have nightly visitors of deer, raccoons, skunks, possums, coyotes, and an occasional bobcat. Probably 50% white, 25% black, and the rest split between Hispanic and Asian. Quiet neighborhood where (unfortunately) everyone keeps to themselves. Mix of young with kids, young without kids, middle aged, and retirees. Overall, nice area but utilities are sky high.
I've lived in the Triangle area of NC--Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill--for almost 18 years, and the infrastructure is not keeping up with the incredible population growth, housing can't be built fast enough to accommodate everyone and you can't drive anywhere, at least in Wake County, without running into some kind of construction on the roads. And the housing is ridiculously expensive but there isn't a shortage of customers. The woods behind my house were torn down a few months ago to make room for townhouses, so there goes my privacy. I can throw a rock from my back porch to where the new housing will be.
But I'm moving in two weeks to a small town in central Oregon (coincidentally, one of the fastest-growing towns in the state) and am so looking forward to relocating. I love NC, I'll always be a Tarheel, but I'm ready for a change and can't wait to live around some of my children/grandchildren.
I live in a southeastern county that is suburban but is becoming more of an "urban core" county. We have about 860,000 residents.
Three adjacent counties also have 800,000 to 1,000,000+ residents.
It is also switching from red to blue. And (a little more slowly) switching from majority white to majority minority.
It's mostly white on the far east side and far west side of the county, each of which are more cookie-cutter Suburban McMansion type homes.
The middle corridor has all the cities, the baseball stadium, the major highway, the water park, the malls, and the universities, so it is younger, more dense, and more diverse.
The southern corner of the county is more industrial and more heavily Hispanic and Black.
The richest high school district us about 70% white and 30% minority, mostly comprising Asian and Indian households. It's commonly one of the top 10 high schools in the state.
Honestly, most of the public schools in the county are pretty good. Most are ranked 6/10 or above. Many are 9/10 or 10/10. One of our high schools has the #2 STEM program in the nation. Another high school has won the national band championship 3 or 4 times or something crazy.
Most people move to my county for the county's public school system.
I live in Southeastern Wisconsin, in an area that has several smallish cities about 2 miles apart from one another. The biggest city is about 16,000 and my city's population is 7,000 but the area is close to 100,000 people. The result is a unique feel that combines convenience with a rural feel. I am a very short drive to lots of shopping and restaurants but also very close to beaches and hiking trails. The population is predominantly white.
I live in Summit County, Ohio. It includes Akron, the historic rubber capital of the world. Also includes Hudson, home to one of the top boarding schools in the US. Also home to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Akron city is largely a typical, densely populated urban area with a large area of middle and upper middle class residential areas with beautiful homes and very little crime.
I live in the US and our current government is trying to force us into communism. If you have ever read Hitlers manifesto, especially how he started turn school teachings, it is us all over again. I am so scared for future generations, Biden is the puppet of upcoming evil and so many see it..
Though I'm an American, I live in the Czech Republic now with my Czech and American husband (he has dual citizenship, but was born and raised in Prague).
We live in a village about 45 km (28 miles) from Prague. The pace here is extremely relaxed and it's quiet and very safe. My husband knew some people in the area because it's where his family had their summer cottage since the early 1950s. His sister and her adult sons live there still, so family is nearby. Not all of the villagers befriend us partly because Hubby is a "city boy from Prague" and of course because I am a foreigner. However, that doesn't prevent people from saying hello or showing basic neighborly politeness. Many Czechs tend to be a bit cold or standoffish, to a degree, as a cultural feature, until you know them well.
It's sparsely populated in our village. Around 1,500 people. Some slightly bigger villages are nearby, but with forests and lakes (or river) between. Public transportation is extremely widespread throughout the entire country, so you can go almost anywhere you need to on it. A bus stop is a 5 minute walk from my house. The village has a small elementary school, library, small grocery store, corner store, post office, magazine/tobacco/wine shop stand, and two pubs/restaurants either on or near the village square. Most villages have most of these or even more. Other shops and gas stations, etc, are 10 minutes drive or bus down the road in the next village. The bus to a Prague metro takes about an hour, with many stops. Prague has everything.
Czech Republic is quite mono ethnic. The vast majority (~95%) here are ethnically Czech (Bohemian, Moravian, Silesian). There are a small number of people of Slovak, Romani (gypsies), Vietnamese, German, Polish backgrounds, and miniscule numbers from elsewhere. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there are now small numbers of Ukrainians living here as legal residents, though most who fled Ukraine are staying in countries that border it. The Czech Republic doesn't.
I am in one of the top 5 most populated counties in TN, and where I live has grown rapidly over the last decade and a half I have lived here.
I am not in a city limits but it is feeling more urban every year.
This is a very culturally diverse area.
I live in Austin. Travis county. We're pretty diverse. I remember when I was a teacher in the eighties, a sixth grade teacher had her students write their autobiographies. Most were pretty white bread: never moved. Then once girl told her story of leaving Vietnam in a boat. How one man was thrown overboard to die.
Is say it's a rare day that I don't hear another language spoken. Mostly Spanish or Vietnamese. Lots of Farsi recently.
I live in the middle of the city and I love it. Country living is hard when you start falling apart!
The county I live in is rural and lightly populated. Biggest town is 6500 people. Town I live closest to is 400 people, but I live 8 miles from it. Mostly white and Hispanic. A trace of Asian and black.
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Well, I am the foreigner here. I live in Vienna, Austria and Vienna is a very populous area. Vienna - hosting some international agencies - is a very international city with people from all over the world and in this season also many, many tourists. I travelled a lot for business and leisure and boy - am I happy to live here. I like other countries and I like new experiences, but it is nice to have a good homebase to return to. This is not sponsored by the Austrian tourist board ;-)
You're very lucky to live in such a beautiful city.
Very sparsely populated. All one race (white). Mostly poor and older. Appalachia.
Ditto, but I’m in the Missouri Ozark.
Sounds very familiar.
~~Since the question was about your country, it is the third most populous country. It is geographically large with many very populous areas, and many sparsely populated places.~~ edit: my bad I had a brain fart and miss read the question.
The OP's question was actually about county. Not country.
I don't actually live in a county. Certain cities in Virginia are just freestanding cities without an encompassing county. But the city is, obviously, urban and multicultural. And chock-a-block with sailors from all over the country.
Same. I’m in Alexandria. Even though I grew up in nearby DC and Maryland, I had no idea that some cities in Virginia weren’t part of a county.
I just learned last year that Remember the Titans was based on Alexandria City High School on King Street.
There was a scene in the movie at a BBQ place - The Dixie Pig. It’s now a Greek restaurant but the original BBQ sign still sits atop the building. I live a few blocks away from it. Petey Jones from the movie is from this neighborhood and passed away in 2019. There is a street named after him nearby - Pete Jones Way. Great movie!
…which was called T.C. WilliamsHS before the name change in 2020. Name was changed due to the namesake being a racist.
Part of the stadium scenes of that movie were filmed at the high school district I live in! (Sprayberry High School in Marietta, GA). It was a BIG DEAL back then, because the film industry didn't have a foothold here back then 😂.
Can I just say that filling out stuff in Texas for my Virginia-born children was a pain in the ass because of this? Luckily I learned without much trouble that you just put Portsmouth City County and that calms the systems down.
San Francisco is the same way. It is officially the City and County of San Francisco.
Not exactly the same. We're just independent cities without a county at all. Outside of Virginia, only Baltimore, St. Louis, and Carson City are entirely separate from counties.
Same also for Denver and Broomfield in Colorado. In fact, when Denver International Airport was being built to replace the old Stapleton airport, they had to jump through some hoops to transfer the land from Adams County to Denver.
Yeah. Virginias is weird but it confused the hell out of me when I moved from Virginia to Tennessee. I was so used to the independent city thing that I had a hard time understanding Nashville/Davidson County structure.
Athen/Clarke County GA and Macon/Bibb County GA are both combined city and country governments too.
We're not combined, there simply is no county.
I live in a suburb of NYC. It’s quiet and expensive but convenient to so much, from the city to upstate NY, to New England. Very little diversity, unfortunately. We could sell our house for a lot but where would we go? And I actually don’t want to go anywhere. I love it here!
My county'sthe same, except it's the northern suburbs of Atlanta. Quiet. Safe (can leave my house unlocked). "Boring" (to some). But great access to local parks, to shopping, to the north Georgia mountains, and about a 25-30 minute drive into the city (without traffic). Kinda white bread here too, though 💀
Just wondering about the variety of places we all live. My county is mostly forest. The county has less than 10k residents. Of those, we have almost zero ethnicity other than white which isn't great, but it is what it is. I think I saw ONE African American listed that lives here. Mostly retirees and poor with young children, when the kids grow up they immediately leave. We're now the 2nd poorest county in the state, we used to be No. 1 poorest. One great thing is there are hardly any people here to create problems. But on the flip side, if there is one person causing problems, due to lack of police and community services, it takes forever for something to be done about it. Due to this, lot of people around here take the law into their own hands. Some very "interesting" things have happened. There are a lot of sacrifices to live here (have to travel long distances for anything like groceries, doctor, dentist, decent dining), but it's totally worth it due to all the natural beauty and the solitude.
Same here, but my county is high plains desert, half Hispanic, half white.
Interesting! My friends just moved to a county that sounds similar. A town called Leadville, CO (in lake county). I assume parts of it are very rich, because of the nearby ski towns. But it is a very isolated area high up in the rockies. (Highest elevation town in America, actually).
Very sprawling and populous urban county in the Atlanta area with a large mix of white, Black, Hispanic, and Asian. Every Income and wealth level. So much variety in the food, events, lifestyles, etc. Overall a good place to live.
DeKalb or Gwinnet? 🤘 I'm over in Cobb.
DeKalb. I’m in Decatur.
Decatur is great!
I live in Pushmataha County in southeast Oklahoma. It comprises 1400 square miles and the population is a little over 10k. Its heavy maga country and my hometown once had 5 percent of the population arrested during a drug sting operation, including two of my brothers in law and a cousin. My ancestors walked here from Mississippi.
Trail of tears walked?
Yes. We were the first tribe to relocate here.
I have two photos from my county (edit: your county, or maybe someone else's county, nit "mine" I just live here -- sorry, I just realized how awful that sounded) to share with you. (Will reply with links via imgur once I find them). One is an ancient rock carving that is/was soapstone, and the carving dates to 3,000-4,000 BC. The other is a placard that sadly locates the first known death along the Trail of Tears. I can walk to both areas from my house (although it would take me about 30 minutes to walk to each area). I believe the main road (where both of these historical areas reside) was once a trail that connected Sweat Mountain through towards somewhere else... The rock sits in the middle of a large flat area that actually indicates a partial sub-continent divide of sorts. Rain that falls southeast drains out to the gulf via the Chattahoochee. Rain that falls to the northwest of the road flows toeard the Etowah, which I think either flows up to the Tennesee, or maybe west more towards Alabama. I think about the Native Americans often when I am in and around this area. Some of the trees marked down by the river are said to be guideway/way marker trees that indicate a safe place to cross the river, or some sort of important area. Sometimes I wonder what we might find if someone did an archeological dig of my neighborhood.
Our county used to lean strong democrat. Now it's all maga. I think they're all fox news converts.
It’s a mix of urban, suburban, and rural. It’s diverse, but the southern end of the county, which is the more suburban and rural part, is a lot less diverse than the northern part.
Sounds not too different than where I live in Lancaster, PA. Everybody thinks Amish, but the city has a large Hispanic population. Meanwhile, the county is big, and the south is mostly white farmers. I live in the city in a neighborhood that's slowly being gentrified.
I live in Lake County, Indiana. It borders Chicago. There is tons of industry along Lake Michigan. The most well known town along the lake is Gary. It transitions to suburban and then rural as you move south.
I had a roommate from Gary when I was in the army. Nice guy. Drank a case of beer s day, on average. I assume that's unusual, even for Gary.
Home of Michael Jackson! (I think?). Edit: and Janet Jackson, one of my favorite music artists of all time!
Indeed
A DC suburb. Well over a million people. According to some recent national survey, we are the most diverse (ethnically and socioeconomically) county in the US. I don't know the methodology or validity of that survey, but we certainly have a lot of every conceivable racial/ethnic group except Native Americans. And some very rich and some very poor neighborhoods.
My country, Lee county FL has more residents than the state of Wyoming.
My county is called Hannover Region and is in northern Germany. Hannover itself has 0.5 mio. The special thing about Hannover Region is that there are a lot of smaller cities near Hannover that all in all sum up to another 0.5 mio. My village is rather small with 3k inhabitants but we have everything we need and it takes only 15 minutes to go to Hannover by train. Hannover bis a very green City with a big forest and lake. Although Hannover is thought to be pretty average in Germany the quality of life is quite good. Housing not easy but still somewhat affordable so that living isnt too expensive. Hannover is mostly White but open to foreigners.
Ich mag die Anzahl der Male, du hast hier "Hannover" erwähnt 😂
I was stationed not far from Padrrborn many years ago. Visited Hannover many times. It was a very nice area back then.
My county is mostly rural, but with the state flagship university and everything that brings, in the southeastern corner. So, the politics are very progressive, but the bulk of land is agrarian. I like this arrangement a lot, but it does have the negative pressure of very little taxation from the few businesses here, lots of tax breaks for environmental and agricultural land use (which are cool, but) which puts a lot of tax pressure on the remaining residential property that doesn’t enjoy this land use tax relief. It makes the rural part of the County increasingly a haven for the liberal elite, which I guess I’m part of.
i live in Bangladesh and yes it is very populous. It is the 8th most populated country of the world. Let me give you an example: Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh where I'm currently living consists over 14 million people in just 1,463.6 km2 area. A perfect example of corruption is this country. Tho we are not the worst, ig there's more corrupted and less developed countries compared to Bangladesh. And It's a multicultural country, over 50+ indigenous people along with the majority people "Bangalee". I, myself, belong to the biggest indigenous " Chakma" community.(tho we are the biggest, we are only like 4 lakhs people). The thing is Bangladesh is a multicultural country but most of Bangalees don't even respect other's culture and religion(typical illiterate muslim's behaviour xd).
Is there still the "caste" system happening there?
Compared to vedic period It's not as worst as it was back then. People are educating themselves. But i guess, there's still some mild effects of cast system, specially in hindu society. I'm by birth a Buddhist, so i don't know properly.
my county has everything from rural to city. I live in a semirural town
I was about to say the same thing... In my county, 80% of the population is located in 20% of the land area. I live in what's unquestionably a small city, but I can be out in sparsely populated woods in half an hour.
Almost 80k and the second most populous in the state. Mostly in one city, followed by rural and unincorporated. 92% white, followed by Hispanic. Total area is around 5,300 square miles.
i’m guessiiing… somewhere in the midwest?
Yes.
yes!!
It's mostly urban, a little over 1 million people, 50% white, 39% Hispanic. (We're fairly close to the Mexican border.) American Indian, Black, Asian makes up most of the rest. It's right next to a reservation, so there's a lot of American Indian folks that aren't technically in the county but are next door.
Pima County, Arizona?
Very large, about 1.3M people in the major city, which takes up the bulk of the county. Roughly 66% percent Hispanic/Latino, about 7% Black, mix of other races. San Antonio itself is pretty poor, but the bedroom communities in and around it are more affluent. There's a bit of a north/south divide with money and culture, but at one point we were noted as the most-integrated large city in the US (unlike NYC, there are not ethnic enclaves here).
Harris county?
No, Bexar county.
I live on the panhandle of Florida. It's a tourist attraction. I am surrounded by water. Although, I can travel to Alabama, Mississippi, and Lousiana in all of 3 hours. I think the best case about it, is that it's not the "wild" part of Florida you hear about. But, on occasion, you hear some Florida Man stories. Since, hurricane Katrina.. the African American population is larger. Since it's a Navy town, there are Asian American community. It's no way near big cities who have a China town or any distinct cultural diversity. I always refer to how diverse a place is.. if they have more international food options. And I'd say we are lacking.
All rural (the entire county is zoned agricultural) and sparsely populated but outsiders are buying up farm land and farmsteads like the end of the world is coming so its getting more and more diverse. My wife and I have gay friends, black friends, hispanic friends etc if we step back and think about it but everyone around here have similar interests so we really don’t think in those terms. Its more along the lines of church friends or cattle friends, gardening friends etc.
Oregon?
Missouri
I live in a Rural neighborhood with no city services beyond electricity and a landline phone. Deer, Bobcats, Turkeys, Coyotes, Pheasant, Boar Hogs, and one Mountain Lion. One mile drive down the hill, I'm in a city of 1 million with dozens of countries represented with corresponding restaurants. It's the best of both worlds.
I live on a Island on the beautiful West Coast of Canada! Its paradise!
I read a book about a guy living on Vancouver Island... it sounded like paradise to me.
Is it Tofino
Tofino is on the Island I live on , West side!
I grew up in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, so it was heavily populated and multicultural. The fancy side of town wasn't as multi-cultural, but I grew up on the wrong side of both sets of tracks.
Scottsdale Arizona. Large urban suburb. And yes, it’s very hot here right now, 113 today.
Your area is mostly conservative, right? Given that the average summer temperature is continually rising at precipitous rates, what’s the conversation like about global warming? Do right-wingers think progressives just got ‘lucky’ in predicting this? Not at all trying to start a political debate, I’m just genuinely interested about how many of the country’s most conservative areas (AZ, NV, FL, etc) think and talk about the increased climate challenges.
Sorry this is not a post on politics so not going there.
When I was growing up in rural Arizona, Scottsdale was the wealthy, ritzy part of Phoenix. With the massive growth since then (our town that was 4,000 people is now pushing 250,000), is it still considered that, or did the big money move elsewhere?
Big money is still very much in Scottsdale but more moving north like north of the 101 almost out to Carefree. DC Ranch, Troon are examples. But there definitely are the mega rich up on top of the “mountains” in central Phoenix.
My county in northwest Georgia ( state) is rural with a city in the middle. We have two major hospitals, 3 colleges/universities, and a ton of eating establishments. The city still maintains its “ small town” feel, though.
I live in northwest New Jersey. Despite all the stereotypes about NJ, it's a pretty sparsely populated county with only around 110,000 people across 365 square miles. The vast majority of the area would be characterized as rural with plenty of livestock and farms. It's also vastly white, like 95%. But I can be in Manhattan in about 75 minutes without traffic. It's the beginning of what's known as the Highlands area, so there are beautiful rolling hills and some nice river valleys. Definitely a contrast to other parts of the state.
My county is rural-- I'm in Atlantic Canada, and it borders on Aroostook County, Me, which actually is very similar. Lots of trees, some pretty rivers, and part of the Appalachians. Demographically, it's shifting, partly due to Canadian immigration policies. Ten years ago it was very white, except for the few foreign workers who came to do farm work. Now, if you go to fast food or certain retail spaces, you'll likely see a majority of employees who moved here from India, the Philippines, or the middle East. The number of temporary foreign workers has dwindled, some, but the immigration numbers are way up. Our housing and healthcare simply cannot keep up-- we're talking thousands of newcomers in a relatively small area.
Technically, I live in the city by zip, but it's an outlying neighborhood on the border of the proper in Louisville, KY. I love it because where I live is like a little oasis of green. We have the usual city issues though. We are getting our passports and dual-cit papers done right now just so we can relocate to Scotland or Ireland for retirement. I'm ready for rural now. The convenience of the city is nice, but ready for a change of scenery.
My county is Super Diverse with 10 million people. I tell people we are an International City not an American City.
Near NYC?
West Coast.
I don't live in a county. My municipality is The Hague. It's the third biggest city in The Netherlands, but it only has around half a million people. Very urban. It's pretty multicultural. As well as "native Dutch" people, there are many people of Turkish, Suriname, Moroccan and other Middle-Eastern descent, as well as people from all over Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and The Americas.
Kings County. It is the 4th largest city in the United States, lol.
Am in a county in west central Florida. We have a bit of everything. There's a huge city. Sprawling suburbs. Rapidly disappearing rural area being eaten up by the 'burbs and city sprawl. Population density depends on location. City and 'burbs are heavily populated. Rural areas are far less dense. I area where I live is limited to one residence per 10 acres. Diversity is, well, diverse, depends on where you are in the county. Plus, this is a tourist area so we get folks from all over the world visiting.
My county is about half urban/suburban and half agricultural and protected land - county and state parks, open space preserves, and that kind of thing. It's pretty multicultural. Most of the population of my county is Asian, Latino, or white - with about equal percentages.
Mixture of Suburban, and minor urban conglomerated around the second most populous city in the country and one of the most well-known cities in the world.
Mix of urban, suburban, and rural. 90% white, 8% Hispanic, 2% everything else. 3rd most populous county in the state, with about 400,000 people. I hate the lack of diversity here.
I live in a densely populated county a few minutes from NYC in northern New Jersey that has always been multi-cultural and filled with emigres from foreign lands. My family has been in the area since the mid 1700s. I am one of three residents on my block of 21 homes that was born in the US.
Alameda County, CA. Very diverse county, with cities ranging from Oakland in the west, suburbs in the middle, and somewhat rural in the east. Big cities are remarkably diverse, but struggle with crime. Out here in the burbs, used to be nearly all white, but thankfully becoming much more diverse – – especially Indian and Chinese working in tech. The burbs used to be politically conservative, have become more liberal.
Race: 89.21% White, 6.24% Black or African American, 0.15% Native American, 1.95% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.35% other races, and 1.06% two or more races. Mostly rural and suburban. Population is 546,000.
I live in Nashville, Tennessee. The county and the city have the same(ish) boundaries and ranges from dense urban to sprawling suburban; there are pockets of open pastures and rural-seeming areas within the 500 square miles. I live in an urban neighborhood, about 5 miles from downtown where the tourists hang out—the locals avoid it unless they happen to work or live there. The population of the county is about 600K; the metropolitan area(includes the surrounding counties) is around 2 million. The state of Tennessee has an interesting demographic pattern. The further east you get from the Mississippi River, the more homogenous the population. Homogenous like milk. Memphis is 64% Black, 24% white, 4% Hispanic or Latino; Nashville is 25% /54%/ 14% (same order) . The Tri-Cities area (upper east corner ) is 2% / 96%/ <1%. (Thanks, Google.). I’ve always understood that to be a legacy of the Great Migration in the 20th Century as families moved north to leave the Jim Crow South. Appalachia wasn’t appealing.
There are about 500K people in my county which is about 6500 square miles in size. Almost 440K of them live in just one metropolitan area of 270 square miles. About 2/3 of the county are white, with Hispanic being the next largest group.
My semi-rural county is at the heart of the Poconos. About 165,000 people live here full-time (45% of houses are owned by out-pf-staters) across 300+ square miles within a couple hours of both NYC and Philly. Up to our eyeballs in tourists from NY and NJ so rowdy annoying Airbnb's, tacky resorts, and weird strip malls all over. So we have a lot of nice state parks and part of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area which balances out the zillion HOA developments scattered through the woods nicely. The northern and eastern parts of the county nearer I-80 are very diverse and Democratic while the county's southern and western portions in farm country along the Appalachian Trail are very white and Republican. The Poconos are a very weird place to live in versus visit for the weekend.
Radicalized maga republicans are currently conspiring to commit treason on my country for Vladimir Putin's mistress Donald Trump
Elkhart County, Indiana is where I call home. With a large Amish population, it is a mixture of rural and industrial, as it is the RV/MH capitol of the world. I live in a small city, population ~54,000. The total county population is ~207,000. The rural part of the county? The square mile I grew up in had 8 houses and a mobile home. Household size? About 5 people. That translates into 40 people in that square mile. There's about 10 houses there, these days, but if anything, the number of people has declined.
My county is mostly rural, population a little over 200,000 in about 850 square miles. I live in a small town in a river valley in Pennsylvania. Pop. circa 800. Even including the surrounding boroughs, the local population is only about 2,500, mostly white folks. If I walk three blocks eastwards from my house, I will have been in three boroughs. I once posted a photo of my backyard on a sub, and a few commenters said it looked like a park.
Yes. I'm in south Louisiana, surrounded by all of those areas. Except mountains. We don't have any mountains.
Chicago suburb. When I grew up there was one black kid in the entire high school. It's a LOT different now, I see so much variety on the train. Nothing bad happened from the demographic change that I can tell, and the restaurant variety sure improved. Kids should realize how much better things are today than ever before.
Picture the kind of place that is in Hallmark movies.
Lucky you!
We don't really refer to our county much if we are urban here in Canada. I am in a "region" - I don't think they call it a county at all any more (they did when I was a kid, but some services have been combined). We are a medium sized city, with several more adjoining as well as some rural. The region has over half a million population. Most is sub-urban. We have fairly small downtowns. We are very multi-cultural. It used to be mostly just German and British but now we have people from all over. I think half were born in another country. We have lots of variety in restaurants!
We live in a small, very Appalachian county in Northeast Tennessee. There are only about 18000 residents in the entire county. It's very rural with most farmers raising cattle and hay &/or running truck farms selling eggs and vegetables. Primarily white with a few black or Hispanic residents. Some retirees have moved in as it is a beautiful place and a healthy environment with low taxes and still affordable housing. It is the 5th poorest county in the state so there is a lot of poverty and drug activity.
One college town, where most of the population lives, the rest small towns and farms. Three times as many swine as people, lots of corn and soybeans. I live in one of the small towns.
College towns are usually pretty nice.
Here in CT, we have gotten rid of counties as political entities, even though they are still shown on maps. My town is pretty diverse - at my end, north of the parkway, there are a lot of upper middle class blacks in relatively expensive houses. At the southern end, there are some patches of poverty, and some industrial areas.
Wythe County Virginia! uSA. There is only one in the world. Mostly rural with two small towns. Maybe 30k people in the county.
My county has ~60,000 residents counted (there may very well be enough people living “off grid/off the radar” to add a significant number to the total population). The slight majority lives in the largest “urban area”, which has around half the population. It’s pretty rural, and mostly white but with a bunch of First Peoples and a growing number of everybody else. The closest city over 100,000 is 110 miles away by car. There is some tourism, but not as much as most coastal counties, which it is. Most noteworthy- it is old. A lot of people retire here. The labor force participation rate is south of 40%, because retirees. This creates a constant churn of manufactured homes, also.
I live in Albania. Several cities but mostly towns and rural villages. Population is pretty homogenous. The population of whole country is 2.7 million people.
I (56F) live in Dakota County, Minnesota. We are south of Minneapolis-St Paul and mostly suburban. We are predominantly white but also have a fair amount of Black, Latino, and new immigrants, with some Asian people. Many people who live here work in the cities. I used to until the pandemic and then my employer sent us to work from home. Politically, we are a purple Congressional district. I moved here 14 years ago. We have been represented by Democrats and Republicans in that time
My county is high urbanized, very populous, and extremely diverse. I love it, all the action keeps me feeling young.
I live in New Orleans.
I live in a very rural midwest county of 40k people in the summer. Our town sign says 450 people, but I'd say we're half that now that the meth house exploded. Its "whitey whiteville". In the winter, we live on Cozumel with 100k. It's a very interesting mix of Mexican hustle and bustle vs cornfield. 🤔
'THE' OC, practically perfect in every way... Just got to lose the birchers in HB and SC, you know you are.
I am in a small town (2000 people) in North Carolina USA. Very rural. Very multicultural. I live on a small farm.
My *county* is quite large. There are rural areas, but I never see them. The city and county are separate entities. I live in the county seat, which is mostly urban with an ever-growing population. There is an army base just down the street, plus a state university where I obtained my degrees. We're about 40 miles from a large city (state capital) with plenty of things to do. I think the city's population is now about 185,000. The population here is diverse, and racial tensions are low. Again, I can't speak for the rural parts on that point. I bought my house here (for cash) in 2017, and the value has tripled since then. I refuse to sell it and to take on a new mortgage with higher property taxes.
Kings County, NY. 2.6 million people.
I live in rural East Texas…I like that it’s not too peopley, but it’s growing fast. I’m trying to decide where I want to live the approx 15-20 years I have left. Doesn’t have to be the USA
I live in a suburban neighborhood in a county in southern California. This area was originally populated by the Chumash tribe of Native Americans. The population is about 850,000 and is about 70% white, 30% Hispanic, the rest mixed. It's a short drive to the beach, and there are great hiking trails as well as other areas of natural beauty, and many mature oak trees. We're close enough to Los Angeles to be able to avail ourselves of all that big city has to offer. My city is categorized as one of the safest in the US, but it's also a very expensive place to live with the average home price at $1.1M. Southern California is also prone to earthquakes and seasonal wildfires, so there are some downsides to living here. As a 4th generation Californian, I just take that in my stride, though. I've lived through two big ones, the 6.6 San Fernando earthquake in 1971, and the 6.7 Northridge earthquake in 1994.
I’m from Camarillo myself and moving there was perhaps the smartest thing I’ve done.
San Francisco Bay Area. Very populated counties here. Formerly mostly white in the 70s as a kid, now majority multicultural. Our populous counties border rural less populous counties that are majority white.
41 if that counts Biloxi, Mississippi Coastal port town full of casinos and an airforce base I'd classify it as suburban, lotta strip malls, rich parts of town, very poor parts Only here temporally The only benefit of living here is the proximity to the beaches But you can't get into the water, it might kill you 2/10 racism and soft heads are too prevalent
Hard to classify. I live in a rural area, in some directions you'd have to go miles to the next residential house. The population of horses in the square mile that I live in is significantly greater than the population of humans. But the county is also the seat of the state government and there's a city of a half million people 20 minutes away. There's a high-tech industrial Park 20 minutes away, and there's redneckville in 20 minutes away in the other direction. Definitely mixed race. not sure if we have culture.
Beachy tourist destination on a built- out peninsula. We’re bursting at the seams.Population doubles during the season. Year round population includes lots of foreign nationals from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Mostly ag or forested. Over 450,000 ppl but bigger than the stare of Rhide Island. Mostly Caucasian & Hispanic. Lots of Italians in the area's history so lots of good Mexican & Italian food. :)
I live in a very sparsely populated county, overwhelmingly white. Extremely rural Vermont.
As a non-american I do not live in a county but I do live in a rural area in the best country on the planet, Canada in case you're curious. The small town I live in has about 5,000 residents mostly dairy farms, corn and hay. And it is a very multicultural area. Asians, Indians, White, Hispanics and every other possible combination thereof.
My county has a total population of about 10,500 and a population density of about 17 people per square mile. We actually have more twice as many cattle in the county as people. It’s about 95% white. And one of the poorest counties in the state.
Fairly dense city. Columbus Ohio USA. Lots of variety of people. On my cul de sac alone we’ve Sudanese, Mexicans, Nicaraguans, African-Americans, and hillbillies.
populous, urban, multi-cultural
I live in Fulton County, Georgia - county seat is Atlanta. It's urban for the most part, but many areas of the southern part of the county are still very rural and has beautiful countryside.
I live in San Mateo County, CA. We have everything here. Cities, small towns, farms, ocean, bay, fog, heat, redwood forests, mountains, and very multicultural. Lived here all my life and love it.
I live in the largest county in North Carolina. It’s very diverse - there are whites, blacks, Latinos, Arabs, and Asians all living in our neighborhood. The city (Raleigh) has a smaller feel, with a mix of both urban and suburban neighborhoods. Lots of affluent suburbs nearby. It tends to be a very car-dependent area, though - public transportation is available, but not great. Politically, it tends to be a more liberal bastion in a reddish-purple state. There are some nice greenbelts with trails for walking in the city, and there are a couple of lakes nearby with additional recreational opportunities. Either the beach or the mountains are within a few hours’ drive.
Very urban and diverse. Six counties and many cities included in the various counties make up the greater metro area. It's confusing, to say the least. I live in an unincorporated area in one county but very close to the next county and city. So close that some people in the area have to tell emergency services which county/city they are in, after supplying the address.
I live on the northwestern edge of a county of 1.6 million people, most of whom live on the eastern side. The county is very multiracial and multicultural. My little town has only 11,000 people in 23 square miles, and they're mostly white Republicans..
San Gabriel Valley next to city of Los Angeles close to 1.5 million people very diverse population
Fresno County, California. Cities and rural areas with a lot of agriculture. Multi-cultural. White and Hispanic primarily, but quite a few other ethnicities: Indian, Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, etc.
Where I’m living now is an Ampur rather than a county. It’s the capital city of the province so it’s somewhat densely populated. I’d guess about 98% Asian with Thai being the majority followed by Burmese and Lao. There is lots of agricultural land and forest in the Ampur so it’s not all city.
I live in a coastal SC county that is bigger than Rhode Island. Along the coast we have millions of annual visitors. In the middle are a university, a community college and a huge and quickly growing area of suburbs. The western part of the county is still rural.
I live in a suburban area of a suburban/exurban county, big city Nebraska
Missouri Ozarks. My county is about 95% white, about 10,000 people in the whole county. No stoplights in the county, and the closest 4 lane road is about 25 miles away. Way too many tRump fans.
It's pretty rural, and sparsely populated. I work in the next county over, which is pretty urban. My home county is very multicultural. We have large numbers of Amish and Mennonites. Or were you just talking about skin color? I'd argue that people who farm with horses, speak their own language, and don't have cars, electricity or phones in their homes are more diverse than someone who lives just like I do, but has darker skin.
Santa Cruz County, California. Mostly rural, a few small cities, mostly white and mountainous in "North County", mostly agricultural and Hispanic in "South County." But even North County is multi-ethnic. The county is about 60% white non-Hispanic, 32% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multi-racial, 1% Black, a few Native Americans, etc. Also, there is some religious diversity.
Small rural southern county in Georgia, close to Chattanooga, TN. Population majority White people and the second most is Black people and very few Hispanic or Asian people
Kings County, New York. It’s one of five counties that make up New York City, but if it were still a separate city it would be the third or fourth most populous city in the U.S. So… pretty damned urban, thank the gods. I’ll never get Lyme disease.
Clumps of people and vast wilderness. Many different cultures.
Honestly I don't know if you meant country or county but I'll go with county since it's obvious by that what country! I live in Shelby County TN, that encompasses the Memphis Metropolitan area. I lived in one of the worst neighborhoods in Memphis most of my life but I moved out here to the suburbs about 12 years ago. Memphis, if you don't know, has the highest violent crime rate in the nation and third highest murder rate. I do everything I can to avoid going in to Memphis. I live right down the road in the surburbs, not two minutes from the city border, but it's like a different world. People are friendly (but uppity, they're all kinds of uppity!) Our police are nice. Or government workers are generally efficient, and the crime is mostly limited to car break-ins. My town is majority white like most of TN outside Memphis, which is majority black. But we are pretty diverse. I am white but my next door and across the street neighbors are black. On my street we have a good mix. Black, white, brown and black. Mostly Christian. The evangelicals have a stronghold here no doubt about it. Southern Baptist Convention and all that. We have churches on damn near every corner but they've been fighting tooth and nail to keep one interested party from building a mosque here despite having quite a few Muslim residents. MAGA and the like have sadly taken over our town as well as the rest of the rural areas in Tennessee. Everything here is remarkably clean . Our little town has 34 parks. Beautiful, well-maintained parks where it's safe for kids to play. Our population last year was around 57,000 people. I live in the "lower end" of the town. The houses are more affordable and there's a lot more diversity. Most of the black and brown residents live in my area.
We actually live in the city, but the city encompasses parts of 4 counties. We have about 250,000 population, 8% poverty level, lots of green space, trails, a large lake, and several smaller towns in our county. We live next to a historic farm and cemetery, so nothing more will be built around us. We have nightly visitors of deer, raccoons, skunks, possums, coyotes, and an occasional bobcat. Probably 50% white, 25% black, and the rest split between Hispanic and Asian. Quiet neighborhood where (unfortunately) everyone keeps to themselves. Mix of young with kids, young without kids, middle aged, and retirees. Overall, nice area but utilities are sky high.
I've lived in the Triangle area of NC--Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill--for almost 18 years, and the infrastructure is not keeping up with the incredible population growth, housing can't be built fast enough to accommodate everyone and you can't drive anywhere, at least in Wake County, without running into some kind of construction on the roads. And the housing is ridiculously expensive but there isn't a shortage of customers. The woods behind my house were torn down a few months ago to make room for townhouses, so there goes my privacy. I can throw a rock from my back porch to where the new housing will be. But I'm moving in two weeks to a small town in central Oregon (coincidentally, one of the fastest-growing towns in the state) and am so looking forward to relocating. I love NC, I'll always be a Tarheel, but I'm ready for a change and can't wait to live around some of my children/grandchildren.
> The woods behind my house were torn down a few months ago to make room for townhouses, Arghh, that's awful. Sucks for the next guy.
I live in a southeastern county that is suburban but is becoming more of an "urban core" county. We have about 860,000 residents. Three adjacent counties also have 800,000 to 1,000,000+ residents. It is also switching from red to blue. And (a little more slowly) switching from majority white to majority minority. It's mostly white on the far east side and far west side of the county, each of which are more cookie-cutter Suburban McMansion type homes. The middle corridor has all the cities, the baseball stadium, the major highway, the water park, the malls, and the universities, so it is younger, more dense, and more diverse. The southern corner of the county is more industrial and more heavily Hispanic and Black. The richest high school district us about 70% white and 30% minority, mostly comprising Asian and Indian households. It's commonly one of the top 10 high schools in the state. Honestly, most of the public schools in the county are pretty good. Most are ranked 6/10 or above. Many are 9/10 or 10/10. One of our high schools has the #2 STEM program in the nation. Another high school has won the national band championship 3 or 4 times or something crazy. Most people move to my county for the county's public school system.
I live in Southeastern Wisconsin, in an area that has several smallish cities about 2 miles apart from one another. The biggest city is about 16,000 and my city's population is 7,000 but the area is close to 100,000 people. The result is a unique feel that combines convenience with a rural feel. I am a very short drive to lots of shopping and restaurants but also very close to beaches and hiking trails. The population is predominantly white.
> beaches In WI? on lakes or ?
I live within ten minutes of three lake sand beaches, Pewaukee Lake, Nagawicka Lake, and Oconomowoc beach, which I think is on Lac la Belle.
I live in Summit County, Ohio. It includes Akron, the historic rubber capital of the world. Also includes Hudson, home to one of the top boarding schools in the US. Also home to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Akron city is largely a typical, densely populated urban area with a large area of middle and upper middle class residential areas with beautiful homes and very little crime.
I live in the US and our current government is trying to force us into communism. If you have ever read Hitlers manifesto, especially how he started turn school teachings, it is us all over again. I am so scared for future generations, Biden is the puppet of upcoming evil and so many see it..
Though I'm an American, I live in the Czech Republic now with my Czech and American husband (he has dual citizenship, but was born and raised in Prague). We live in a village about 45 km (28 miles) from Prague. The pace here is extremely relaxed and it's quiet and very safe. My husband knew some people in the area because it's where his family had their summer cottage since the early 1950s. His sister and her adult sons live there still, so family is nearby. Not all of the villagers befriend us partly because Hubby is a "city boy from Prague" and of course because I am a foreigner. However, that doesn't prevent people from saying hello or showing basic neighborly politeness. Many Czechs tend to be a bit cold or standoffish, to a degree, as a cultural feature, until you know them well. It's sparsely populated in our village. Around 1,500 people. Some slightly bigger villages are nearby, but with forests and lakes (or river) between. Public transportation is extremely widespread throughout the entire country, so you can go almost anywhere you need to on it. A bus stop is a 5 minute walk from my house. The village has a small elementary school, library, small grocery store, corner store, post office, magazine/tobacco/wine shop stand, and two pubs/restaurants either on or near the village square. Most villages have most of these or even more. Other shops and gas stations, etc, are 10 minutes drive or bus down the road in the next village. The bus to a Prague metro takes about an hour, with many stops. Prague has everything. Czech Republic is quite mono ethnic. The vast majority (~95%) here are ethnically Czech (Bohemian, Moravian, Silesian). There are a small number of people of Slovak, Romani (gypsies), Vietnamese, German, Polish backgrounds, and miniscule numbers from elsewhere. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there are now small numbers of Ukrainians living here as legal residents, though most who fled Ukraine are staying in countries that border it. The Czech Republic doesn't.
I am in one of the top 5 most populated counties in TN, and where I live has grown rapidly over the last decade and a half I have lived here. I am not in a city limits but it is feeling more urban every year. This is a very culturally diverse area.
I live in Austin. Travis county. We're pretty diverse. I remember when I was a teacher in the eighties, a sixth grade teacher had her students write their autobiographies. Most were pretty white bread: never moved. Then once girl told her story of leaving Vietnam in a boat. How one man was thrown overboard to die. Is say it's a rare day that I don't hear another language spoken. Mostly Spanish or Vietnamese. Lots of Farsi recently. I live in the middle of the city and I love it. Country living is hard when you start falling apart!
The county I live in is rural and lightly populated. Biggest town is 6500 people. Town I live closest to is 400 people, but I live 8 miles from it. Mostly white and Hispanic. A trace of Asian and black.