Communities
Urban Growth Versus Rural Sustainability in Texas
A record population and a hollowing countryside can share the same state, and the balancing act between them plays out over land, water, schools, and jobs.
Communities
Texas grows fastest in its cities and thins out across its countryside, and this desk covers both halves of that split. Communities follows how urban expansion and rural endurance pull against each other over land, water, schools, jobs, and the basic services a place needs to stay livable. Healthcare access runs through all of it, because where a clinic or hospital sits often decides whether a town holds its people. The reporting stays with the places, not the averages.
Communities
Healthcare Access Across Rural Texas Communities
In much of rural Texas the distance to care is measured in counties, and hospital closures, provider shortages, and thin coverage all pull in the same direction.