What would you say is the biggest problem facing your local community?

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Notes

“Economic concerns” includes responses about availability of jobs, poverty and the economy (businesses closing/high cost of living/low wages/etc.). Open-ended question. No other issues were mentioned by more than 10 percent of rural Americans.

Source: NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “Life in Rural America” survey of 1,300 adults living in the rural United States, conducted June 6-Aug. 4. The margin of error for the full sample is +/- 3.6 percentage points. Most common responses shown.

Credit: Alice Goldfarb/NPR