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Rural Indiana Stats

About RIS
Geographic Classifications

Housing Data

  • Housing Stock
  • Financial Characteristics
  • Occupancy Characteristics
  • Physical Characteristics
  • Rural Housing Report
  • Huntingburg Housing Report

Fiscal Data

  • Local Government
  • Capacity-Cost Report
  • Use of TIF Report

Socio-economic Data

  • Demography
  • Economy
  • Health
  • Cultural/Environmental Amenities
  • County CVI
  • City/Town CVI

Agriculture & Forestry

  • Agricultural Commodities
  • Livestock
  • IDEM Permits
  • Cropland Area
  • Cropland Dashboard
  • Indiana Hardwood

Digital Inclusion

  • Digital Distress
  • Digital Divide Index
  • DDI Trends
  • Speed Test Profiles
  • Vulnerability
PCRD | OCRA

Copyright © 2019 Purdue University / Indiana Office of Community & Rural Affairs (OCRA)

PCRD | OCRA

Copyright © 2019 Purdue University / Indiana Office of Community & Rural Affairs (OCRA)

ris-logo

Rural Indiana Stats

About RIS

Housing Data

  • Housing Stock
  • Financial Characteristics
  • Occupancy Characteristics
  • Physical Characteristics
  • Rural Housing Report
  • Huntingburg Housing Report

Fiscal Data

  • Local Government
  • Capacity-Cost Report
  • Use of TIF Report

Socio-economic Data

  • Demography
  • Economy
  • Health
  • Cultural/Environmental Amenities
  • County CVI
  • City/Town CVI

Agriculture & Forestry

  • Agricultural Commodities
  • Livestock
  • IDEM Permits
  • Cropland Area
  • Cropland Dashboard
  • Indiana Hardwood

Digital Inclusion

  • Digital Distress
  • Digital Divide Index
  • DDI Trends
  • Speed Test Profiles
  • Vulnerability
PCRD | OCRA

Copyright © 2023 Purdue University / Indiana Office of Community & Rural Affairs (OCRA)

PCRD | OCRA

Copyright © 2023 Purdue University / Indiana Office of Community & Rural Affairs (OCRA)

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Digital Distress

Digital distress areas have a harder time using and leveraging the internet to improve their quality of life due to the type of internet subscription or devices owned. Broadband infrastructure is only part of the equation when it comes to digital exclusion, the number one threat to community economic development in the 21st century. Digital inclusion refers to “the adoption of broadband technologies and its meaningful use for social and economic benefits”. So, in addition to broadband infrastructure, it is worth looking at types of electronic devices owned and internet subscriptions that can augment or undermine the meaningful use of broadband for social and economic benefits. Learn more about digital distress.

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