There's a lot of rural America that's not in agriculture[0]. I mean yes many of the other rural folks provide services to farmers but I wouldn't say the assista

There's a lot of rural America that's not in agriculture[0]. I mean yes many of the other rural folks provide services to farmers but I wouldn't say the assistant manager of a McDonalds in Small Town America is involved in farming just as I wouldn't say the assistant manager of a Starbucks on Wall Street is involved in investment banking. I can't find data on it but I would not be surprised if public sector (all levels) employment and employment with companies that mostly contract for government, as a percentage of total employment, is pretty high in rural areas and small towns, actually. [0] Looks like that's around 1.41% of the US population from World Bank data, fairly flat since the early '00s; stat includes forestry, fishing, and hunting jobs, so is likely more inclusive than what most people usually think of as "agriculture" as in mass food production, though I can't suss out whether it includes stuff like farm equipment sales & servicing, or people running grain elevators, stuff like that.