Between 2000 and 2010, Iowa's age 25-44 Demographic Declined Eight Percent Overall and Twenty Percent in Rural Areas

The above graph and this report by Dave Swenson, out of Iowa State, describes Iowa's depressing rural demographic trends. ——K.M.Key points:Two-thirds of Iowa’s counties lost population between 2000 and 2010. The national population of adults ages 25 to 44 actually declined slightly over the last decade. The state of Iowa saw this population decline by 8 percent. In "rural" areas, however, this