1. A Tale of Two Oregons Bruce Weber, Director, Rural Studies Program. Oregon State University Sheila Martin, Director, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies

2. A Tale of Two Oregons: Common Aspirations, Different Contexts, and Critical Interdependencies in Urban & Rural Oregon Sheila Martin, Director, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, Portland State University Bruce Weber, Director, Rural Studies Program, Oregon State University

3. Urban and rural Oregonians hope for the same things… Good jobs, food and shelter Strong friendships and families Good health and healthy environment Vibrant communities and neighborhoods

4. How are we different? Density and distance How we make our money (and how much of it we make) How fast our populations grow The faces we see around us What we do with our land Who owns the land Access to services

5. Defining Urban and Rural “Arugula is how I define cities. I go to a grocery store, and either you can get arugula or you can’t.” --Cindy Crawford

6. Oregon’s Metropolitan Areas

7. Population Density

8. Oregon’s Core and Periphery

9. Metro population grew faster since 1969

10. Core population stagnant since 1969

11. Metro jobs grew faster since 1969

12. Core job growth stagnant since 1969

13. Commute times high in metro /non-metro Map: Average commute times (census)

14. Metro jobs more specialized in services, non-metro in natural resources and government Source: OR Employment Dept, QCEW

15. But farm production highest in some metro counties

16. Per Capita Income higher and grew faster in metro counties Source: BEA

17. Average Wage Per Job higher and grew faster in metro counties Source: BEA

18. Transfer payments critical to non-metro

19. Poverty rates higher in non-metro

20. Racial-ethnic diversity in metro/non-metro

21. More non-metro land owned by government

22. 8th Grade Students Meeting Reading Standards in metro/non- metro

23. How are we Interdependent? population movements between urban and rural areas market-driven trade in goods and services, both across and within industry clusters public sector taxes and spending public and private infrastructure [finance, information, transportation, communications, utilities, healthcare, education, human services, administration of government] environmental goods and services

24. Operating Expenditures/Student 2006-07

25. School Districts on 4-day Weeks

26. Freshman Participation Rates 2006* Community Colleges *As a percentage of Public High School Graduates 2005-2006 Source: OUS Institutional Research and the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development

27. Freshman Participation Rates 2006* OUS University System *As a percentage of Public High School Graduates 2005-2006 Source: OUS Institutional Research

28. Medically Underserved Areas/Populations

29. Non-metro Oregon generates most power

30. Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Potential