There may be a bias in the scale making the rural-city divide look worse than it is. Rural areas are often cheaper, so the median income could represent more pu

There may be a bias in the scale making the rural-city divide look worse than it is. Rural areas are often cheaper, so the median income could represent more purchasing power. Also a bachelor’s degree here is used as an indicator/measure. In some places these are less valued and relevant to employment as others. Every basket of measures is imperfect and I quite like the ones used here (education, income, unemployment, disability, life expectancy and obesity), but there probably are some weird biases someplace.