Florida Senate President Ben Albritton opened the 2025 legislative session with big plans for the state’s rural areas. “We’ve seen tremendous economic growth in urban areas of Florida,” he told ...

North Florida counties have many of the state's lowest percentages for vaccinated residents. COVID-19 vaccination rates lag in vast swaths of rural Florida compared to the rest of the state — a ...

Stacker pulled data from the 2010 Census Urban and Rural Classification to compile a list of the most rural county in each state. Alabama: Baldwin County | Total rural area: 1,484 square miles (93 ...

compiled a list of the most rural counties in Florida using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. - Rural area: 100.0% (543 square miles) - Urban area: 0.0% (0 square miles) - Total land area: 543 ...

As the coronavirus pandemic wears on in Florida, the state’s small county leaders say the outbreak has exposed notable inequities in the lesser-populated areas of the state.

Many COVID deaths went unreported last year in Florida’s rural counties, allowing the severity of the pandemic’s impact to be understated, according to a nationwide study released this week.

In 23 of the state’s 67 counties — almost all rural and largely spread across North Florida — the rates were below 40 percent. In Florida and across the country, rural COVID-19 vaccinations lag ...

In south central Florida — rural Highlands, Hardee and DeSoto counties — flooding is impeding power restoration, geographic access and damage surveillance. Roughly a week since the storm ...

The Senate Fiscal Policy Committee unanimously approved SB 110 Thursday.. Bill sponsor Corey Simon, a Tallahassee Republican who represents 13 mostly rural counties in North Florida, said the bill ...

Stacker pulled data from the 2010 Census Urban and Rural Classification to compile a list of the most rural county in each state. Alabama: Baldwin County | Total rural area: 1,484 square miles (93 ...