ABSTRACT
This chapter examines regional economic conditions in counties in the continental United States that contain tribal lands. It also examines the distribution of different types of rural and urban counties across the United States. The chapter explains tribal counties in which the American Indian tribal population accounted for either 5 percent to 30 percent of the population or more than 30 percent of the population. The Beale continuum code sorts counties into 10 categories based on location in an urban area, an area adjacent to an urban area, or a nonmetropolitan area, and on the degree of urbanization. This analysis shows that American Indian tribal lands tend to be located in nonmetropolitan counties, particularly in counties at the rural end of the rural-urban continuum. With respect to economic structure, reservation tribal counties have lower shares of manufacturing employment and higher shares of both agricultural and federal-civilian employment than do Oklahoma tribal statistical areas-tribally designated statistical areas counties.
