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    • Duty to Serve: Rural Areas and High Needs Rural Regions Data

    Metadata Updated: February 12, 2025

    FHFA's Duty to Serve regulation defines "rural area" as: (i) A census tract outside of an MSA as designated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); or (ii) A census tract in an MSA as designated by OMB that is: (A) Outside of the MSA’s Urbanized Areas as designated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) Code #1, and outside of tracts with a housing density of over 64 housing units per square mile for USDA’s RUCA Code #2; or (B) A colonia census tract that does not satisfy paragraphs (i) or (ii)(A) of this definition. This data contains both the specific geographies which meet the Rural Areas definition and also the areas defined as “high-needs rural regions”.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date February 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 12, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from FHFA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 12, 2025
    Publisher Federal Housing Finance Agency
    Maintainer
    Identifier FHFA7736
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-12T14:25:47.935Z
    Rights true
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 015:11
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 63bc16f7-52ab-4b38-ba10-f84867a86902
    Harvest Source Id f37782a8-9657-4976-8077-936b628b3973
    Harvest Source Title FHFA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.fhfa.gov/data/duty-to-serve/eligibility-data
    Program Code 015:001
    Publisher Hierarchy Federal Housing Finance Agency > Federal Housing Finance Agency
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c26884ffb3c184bfeaada4ec99d0f8e2413346b318297206122497f95eb258bc
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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