U.S. COUNTIES, BY BEALE CODE As discussed in section 2, Beale codes were developed by the Economic Research Service to depict population concentrations for all counties in the United States. Each county is assigned to 1 of 10 Beale codes shown below. This appendix lists the Beale codes of all 3,096 U.S. counties, which are arranged alphabetically by state and county. Beale code 1 2 3 4 5 6 67 8 9 Note: Definition Nonrural counties Central counties of metropolitan areas of 1 million Fringe counties of metropolitan areas of 1 million Counties in metropolitan areas of 250,000 to 1 million Counties in metropolitan areas of less than 250,000 Urban population of 20,000 or more, adjacent to a Urban population of 20,000 or more, not adjacent to a Rural counties Urban population of less than 20,000, adjacent to a Urban population of less than 20,000, not adjacent to a Completely rural, adjacent to a metropolitan area Metropolitan status is that announced by the Office of Management and Budget in June 1983, when the current population criteria were first applied to results of the 1980 Census. Adjacency was determined by physical boundary adjacency and a finding that at least 2 percent of the employed labor force in the nonmetropolitan county commuted to metropolitan central counties. |