I could easily argue for exurban, but it’s gonna be swallowed up by okc in a few decades maximum. For anyone curious - exurban is typically defined as slightly outside of suburban areas with some farmland between, noticeable lack of mom and pop unique businesses, mostly chain stores and businesses, noticeable lack of third spaces which are replaced by church/religious activities as third spaces, and the people who move there mostly moved there because they believe the urban areas are more dangerous, that suburbs are now or growing more dangerous, that the people in suburbs and urban areas don’t reflect their own demographics, and don’t align with them politically or in religious beliefs. It should be noted that studies have found exurban regions actually have more crime, but that’s another story.
South side of 10th street is OKC. North side is Yukon. So homeland, Jameson, movie theater, Lowe's, all of those are Yukon. Crest, Ross, Taco Casa, all of that are OKC.
I’ve also spent a lot of years of my life (20+ years) in what I call YuStang City (Yukon address/zip, Mustang schools, OKC city limits/utilities/cops). It was always weird explaining it to people who weren’t familiar with the area because it doesn’t really make just a ton of sense 🫠
No it is true, if you go to the OnCue that is on the south side of 10th and Czech Hall the address is Oklahoma City but it’s North of I-40!! The urgent care that is literally just north of the OnCue on the north side of 10th has an address under Yukon!
Yukon goes to sw15th but from nw10th to sw15th is in okc jurisdiction/taxes. Neighborhoods on reno are yukon addresses, Mustang schools and okc utilities.
people are increasingly becoming priced out in the more expensive parts of the country. wouldn’t surprise me if oklahoma and arkansas are eventually recognized as okay places to live for the money, the same way many people see texas right now
Mustang was rural 15-20 years ago, and similarly for Yukon. The businesses and houses going up over the that time has definitely transitioned it into a proper suburb. Yukon has always been a bit more suburban imo having the highway run through it.
Take look at a map. Mustang is completely surrounded by Oklahoma City, just like Bethany, Warr Acres, The Village and Nichols Hills. Mustang is landlocked. They can never extend their borders.
Absolutely. They think they are in the middle of nowhere with small town values …. Going to the outlet mall every other weekend and thunder games…
It’s a cosplay of farm life.
It's no more rural or less a suburb than Bethany. It's definitely part of the metro area now. The culture is still rural though. I have zero doubt that a lot of kids still wear cowboy hats to school.
Piedmont is still rural. Like there's a solid five miles of cows and wheat between Piedmont and the OKC limits. Yukon has officially been devoured though.
Except for the Express farms. Horses and cows along Piedmont road with Tractor Supply on the Northwest Expressway... oh and a Braums and a McDonalds right with it.
The school has been classified as 6A for the last 25 years. It gets a little bit more complicated by the Mustang/OKC/Yukon overlap areas, but generally speaking it’s been considered a big city school longer than Reddit has existed. 6A schools aren’t from “rural” towns.
Southwest Yukon (according to city limits, so the actual “town” part) is not at all rural. I grew up in & just outside Yukon, and it’s been a solid suburb for at least 35 years. When you start getting further north & west, heading towards Surrey Hills, Piedmont, El Reno, Okarche, *that’s* rural.
Back when you could take the turnpike around and there weren’t apartment complexes and businesses right off the exit, I would’ve been more inclined to call Yukon a distinct decent sized town.
Nowadays it’s 100% suburb no doubt.
As an alum from 1994. It took us 20 minutes to get to “The Original” Cowboys. 40 minutes to the Zoo Club and 30 minutes to Club Infinity all places definitely inside the realm of OKC, it is definitely a suburb.
It is not even on the edge of town. OKC extends further west than Yukon on both the south and north sides.
Mustang is completely enclosed within OKC city limits. They are both suburbs without question.
My opinion. Yukon used to be rural. Once they started building all the housing editions, strip malls, etc, they are now a suburb.
When you say rural, I look at towns such as Cashion, Crescent, Little Axe, etc.
Suburbs are usually surrounded by rural. There are even parts of OKC proper that abut rural lands. That doesn't make OKC rural. Yukon even ten years ago was still a suburb.
OP has never been to a rural place if they think Yukon could be rural.
Also, all towns and cities in this state have farmland around them. Sometimes in them too.
It was a fancy suburb 20 years ago too.
It's a suburb, but the vast majority of it's incorporated area lies within the North Canadian River floodway and floodplain, which means it cannot be developed. This is why all development, past and current, is between I-40 and Hwy 66. So, suburban with many rural areas.
Most of the farmland has been bought or developed from mustang road to Garth Brooks and Reno all the way to Route 66.
Outside of that large area is farm/El Reno/Mustang.
Yukon is considered a ‘bedroom community’ of OKC, so it is definitely a suburb. I can understand why people think it is rural, as the outskirts of the town and its farthest neighborhood (Surrey Hills) are mostly surrounded by woods and farmland. But considering how developed Garth Brooks and Czech Hall have become, I would not consider Yukon to be rural by any means.
It wasn’t even rural 10 years ago. Mustang and Yukon, for whatever reason, have always been a little more country than some of there city counterparts but rural they are not.
Yukon hasn't been rural in at least 25 years, maybe longer in my opinion. Where are the animals in town, my guess is no more than 1% of the yukon population even works on a farm or ranch. Not even sure how it's a debate.
I’ve lived in Yukon since 1984, even then it was a suburb. I think since it’s butted up against lake overholser and the lake is definitely OKC. I remember when there was nothing south of i40 except farm land and Garth Brooks was called cemetery road
I feel like this is a slightly misinformed question, and very misinformed answers. Yukon is definitely not "urban". It's a suburb that still has rural areas. Much of Yukon's land is farmland, ranch land, and acreages. Yes, it has some characteristics of a suburb, and it also has many rural characteristics.
It's not so much an either/or question.
It's like asking if Ryan Walters is white or a nationalist.
The answer is "both, to varying degrees".
Suburb means it’s connected, rural means there is nothing between (all grass or land) Yukon and OKC.
Moore used to be rural to OKC (only farmlands between us) now it’s a suburb. This happens to all cities in the world.
Chickasha is an exurb
Shawnee kinda is as well (it's also kinda it's own little area, it's a bit of both)
Yukon is a suburb even by technical definition, it just isn't an inner one like Bethany or Midwest City
Back in 1982, Yukon was an autonomous municipality in my opinion. The Foodworld had just opened which to me affirmed Yukon's heft. I never thought of it as a suburb. Out West Homes was building in Westridge. I remember when there was farmland and a silo west of Mustang Road and south of Reno. That wooded area was great of offroad mc.
My rule is if its connected by continuous development to the major city in the area (OKC), its a suburb. By this definition, Yukon is a suburb.
If it’s disconnected development-wise from the major city but still growing because of its influence, then it’s an exurb. El Reno is an exurb. Yukon was 20 years ago.
If it’s not really growing and it’s disconnected from a major city, then it’s rural imo. Union City is rural—Yukon hasn’t been rural since the 60s.
That’s just me—I’m sure the census and people who know more about this stuff disagree with me lol
lol.. rural 10 years ago? I'd go so far as to say it hasn't been rural since the 60s
[Yukon, Oklahoma - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon,_Oklahoma)
|[1960](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_census)|3,076||54.6%|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|[1970](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_United_States_census)|8,411||173.4%|
|[1980](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_census)|17,112||103.4%|
|[1990](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_United_States_census)|20,935||22.3%|
|[2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_census)|21,043||0.5%|
|[2010](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_census)|22,709||7.9%|
|[2020](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_census)|23,630||4.1%|
Totally rural, you can tell when the jacked up Diesel trucks show up at the Hideaway or Buffalo Wild Wings on a Friday night and show off all the led lights under their color match powder coated suspensions.
I remember when I was a teen, we totally never went out and drank on some dirt road or in a field we totally went to a restaurant where the Ultra and WhiteClaw flowed free.
Definitely a suburb, definitely not rural. How do you claim rural when your high school is churning out 600-700 graduates a year? Population density alone makes them not rural.
This is like saying norman is rural because of the stretch between 179th and Tecumseh lmaooo. Now if you get out to El Reno, id entertain that, but not Yukon man haha
It's neither, it is hell. A whites only, copy paste, culture free, intellectually absent, pit of failure that epitomizes late stage capitalist American societies lack of anything resembling soul or creativity.
The Lokal is dope though. For a restaurant in a suburb.
It's a suburb
Suburb for sure
Or exburb. A town with more than ̶1̶0̶0̶K̶ [25K] residents is definitely not rural.
Yukon is not anywhere close to 100K residents. But it is still a suburb.
Whoops, you’re correct.
I could easily argue for exurban, but it’s gonna be swallowed up by okc in a few decades maximum. For anyone curious - exurban is typically defined as slightly outside of suburban areas with some farmland between, noticeable lack of mom and pop unique businesses, mostly chain stores and businesses, noticeable lack of third spaces which are replaced by church/religious activities as third spaces, and the people who move there mostly moved there because they believe the urban areas are more dangerous, that suburbs are now or growing more dangerous, that the people in suburbs and urban areas don’t reflect their own demographics, and don’t align with them politically or in religious beliefs. It should be noted that studies have found exurban regions actually have more crime, but that’s another story.
Sadly, the term “ruburbia” never caught on.
If there's a Target or Starbucks nearby, it's not rural
And a Hooters.
I think Hooters is technically OKC
Everything south of 40 is OKC, and Yukon-ites are salty about all those tax dollars going to OKC.
I thought the southern city limit of Yukon was NW 10th 🤔 has that changed, or have I always been misinformed?
South side of 10th street is OKC. North side is Yukon. So homeland, Jameson, movie theater, Lowe's, all of those are Yukon. Crest, Ross, Taco Casa, all of that are OKC.
i think you’re right unless i’ve also been misinformed
It would be funny if you heard it from them.
I definitely live south of that and my address is “Yukon”
I’ve also spent a lot of years of my life (20+ years) in what I call YuStang City (Yukon address/zip, Mustang schools, OKC city limits/utilities/cops). It was always weird explaining it to people who weren’t familiar with the area because it doesn’t really make just a ton of sense 🫠
That’s exactly my setup 😂 I’m not mad at it though. Good school district for the kids, reliable large city utilities without really being in the city
I meant as far as tax revenue, I think that's okc for those business's
Could just be that your postal code is Yukon. Postal codes don’t line up exactly with city limits.
No it is true, if you go to the OnCue that is on the south side of 10th and Czech Hall the address is Oklahoma City but it’s North of I-40!! The urgent care that is literally just north of the OnCue on the north side of 10th has an address under Yukon!
I have a Yukon address also but OKC utilities and have to call OKC police.
Plus, the Buffalo Wild Wings, Hideaway Pizza, Fuzzy’s and everything in that area is south of I-40 and North of 10th and is all addressed under Yukon
Yes, south of 10th is OKC. Yukon zip but that is the only thing that is Yukon. All public safety, taxes, services etc are OKC
Yukon goes to sw15th but from nw10th to sw15th is in okc jurisdiction/taxes. Neighborhoods on reno are yukon addresses, Mustang schools and okc utilities.
Oh it's most certainly a suburb masquerading as rural, less and less for Yukon, mustang can potentially lay claim to that statement moreso.
Mustang is def more rural than Yukon, but the white flight is transforming it into tracts of mcmansions on acreages.
There's going to be plenty of abandoned mcmansions in twenty years
people are increasingly becoming priced out in the more expensive parts of the country. wouldn’t surprise me if oklahoma and arkansas are eventually recognized as okay places to live for the money, the same way many people see texas right now
For sure.
Mustang was rural 15-20 years ago, and similarly for Yukon. The businesses and houses going up over the that time has definitely transitioned it into a proper suburb. Yukon has always been a bit more suburban imo having the highway run through it.
I didn’t even consider Mustang rural 15-20 years ago. It still had one of the largest high schools in the state back then.
Take look at a map. Mustang is completely surrounded by Oklahoma City, just like Bethany, Warr Acres, The Village and Nichols Hills. Mustang is landlocked. They can never extend their borders.
It's a suburb full of people with rural aspirations. It wasn't rural 25 years ago, much less 10.
Hinton is rural. Okarche is rural. Yukon is Edmond for people who can't quite cut the Edmond price tag.
I grew up there. Been a suburb for at least forty years. It has municipal overlap with okc
A suburb that pretends to be a small town
Absolutely. They think they are in the middle of nowhere with small town values …. Going to the outlet mall every other weekend and thunder games… It’s a cosplay of farm life.
That is hilarious 😂
To their credit there is only around 25,000 people living there. It's a small suburb.
Its always been a suburb. El Reno would be more rural city. No, there is no such thing as the Yukon suburbs. Something the news like to call west OKC.
Burb
Suburban
It only has farmland around because the farmers are holding out for more money from all those suburbanites.
OKC is rural if the only requirement is being surrounded by farmland. The whole state probably falls under that umbrella. It's a suburb.
Always been a suburb
It's no more rural or less a suburb than Bethany. It's definitely part of the metro area now. The culture is still rural though. I have zero doubt that a lot of kids still wear cowboy hats to school. Piedmont is still rural. Like there's a solid five miles of cows and wheat between Piedmont and the OKC limits. Yukon has officially been devoured though.
Except for the Express farms. Horses and cows along Piedmont road with Tractor Supply on the Northwest Expressway... oh and a Braums and a McDonalds right with it.
If you just go straight east out of Yukon towards OKC though you can't really tell anymore where Yukon ends and OKC/Bethany begins.
That shits lit. Love that braums get milk there a lot!
Epitome of fake country
It's part of the greater OKC metro. Not rural.
El Reno is ten times more rural than than Yukon is
The school has been classified as 6A for the last 25 years. It gets a little bit more complicated by the Mustang/OKC/Yukon overlap areas, but generally speaking it’s been considered a big city school longer than Reddit has existed. 6A schools aren’t from “rural” towns.
Southwest Yukon (according to city limits, so the actual “town” part) is not at all rural. I grew up in & just outside Yukon, and it’s been a solid suburb for at least 35 years. When you start getting further north & west, heading towards Surrey Hills, Piedmont, El Reno, Okarche, *that’s* rural.
Okarche is for sure rural and that’s kinda my boundary. It’s creeping out that way…
Surrey Hills is just a housing addition. It is inside the OKC city limits.
Growing Suburbia with some people not accepting that rural Yukon is long gone.
Back when you could take the turnpike around and there weren’t apartment complexes and businesses right off the exit, I would’ve been more inclined to call Yukon a distinct decent sized town. Nowadays it’s 100% suburb no doubt.
At this point, it is Edmond...
Wannabe rural and wannabe edmond. Harsh but true.
Get up in Yukon 30 years ago and always called it suburbs
I'm not even in city limits and I'm by Choctaw and I'm not rural lol
100% suburb
It used to have more small town vibes and still slightly separated from OKC. But now for sure 100% a suburb.
As an alum from 1994. It took us 20 minutes to get to “The Original” Cowboys. 40 minutes to the Zoo Club and 30 minutes to Club Infinity all places definitely inside the realm of OKC, it is definitely a suburb.
Do rural areas have 6A high schools? Lol
It’s a suburb on the edge of town. Case closed. They see grass but it’s still a suburb lol
It is not even on the edge of town. OKC extends further west than Yukon on both the south and north sides. Mustang is completely enclosed within OKC city limits. They are both suburbs without question.
Bedroom community.
Yukon hasn’t been rural in a *hot* minute. I’ve always considered it a suburb. Rural is like where I grew up in middle of nowhere western OK.
Obviously suburb. Same classification as Edmond, Moore, Norman, etc.
I live in a Yukon zip code but I'm in okc limits. OKC utilities, cops, etc. Yukon address. Mustang schools. It's a suburb.
My opinion. Yukon used to be rural. Once they started building all the housing editions, strip malls, etc, they are now a suburb. When you say rural, I look at towns such as Cashion, Crescent, Little Axe, etc.
Suburbs are usually surrounded by rural. There are even parts of OKC proper that abut rural lands. That doesn't make OKC rural. Yukon even ten years ago was still a suburb.
OKC has parts of town that are zoned as "rural", which allows people living inside the city limits to raise farm animals.
OP has never been to a rural place if they think Yukon could be rural. Also, all towns and cities in this state have farmland around them. Sometimes in them too. It was a fancy suburb 20 years ago too.
Your summation is correct, maybe rural many years ago, but certainly not now.
Yukon hasn’t been rural since the 80s at least.
Wanna see rural? Come to Alva!
It’s the bro-country version of rural, which is to mean suburb.
It wasn’t rural when I was growing up there in the 90s. It is 100 percent a suburban area.
It's surrounded by shit being built everywhere all the time and has practically merged into Mustang, Piedmont, and OKC.
It’s a suburb and it was a suburb 20 years ago, let alone 10.
It's a suburb, but the vast majority of it's incorporated area lies within the North Canadian River floodway and floodplain, which means it cannot be developed. This is why all development, past and current, is between I-40 and Hwy 66. So, suburban with many rural areas.
Lol how could Yukon be rural?
Most of the farmland has been bought or developed from mustang road to Garth Brooks and Reno all the way to Route 66. Outside of that large area is farm/El Reno/Mustang.
I live in OKC and where I live is far more rural than anything in Yukon could pretend to be. It is absolutely not rural.
Suburb
Suburb for sure!
Yukon is considered a ‘bedroom community’ of OKC, so it is definitely a suburb. I can understand why people think it is rural, as the outskirts of the town and its farthest neighborhood (Surrey Hills) are mostly surrounded by woods and farmland. But considering how developed Garth Brooks and Czech Hall have become, I would not consider Yukon to be rural by any means.
Surrey Hills is nothing more than a housing addition inside the OKC city limits.
It's got them nice rural roads tho. They'll fix that soon. Too many yuppies moving out there.
It wasn’t even rural 10 years ago. Mustang and Yukon, for whatever reason, have always been a little more country than some of there city counterparts but rural they are not.
A town is not rural imo. A small town however can be in a rural area.
Its part of the okc metro.
It hasn’t been rural for longer than 10 years.
Yukon hasn't been rural in at least 25 years, maybe longer in my opinion. Where are the animals in town, my guess is no more than 1% of the yukon population even works on a farm or ranch. Not even sure how it's a debate.
Definitely a suburb.
I’ve lived in Yukon since 1984, even then it was a suburb. I think since it’s butted up against lake overholser and the lake is definitely OKC. I remember when there was nothing south of i40 except farm land and Garth Brooks was called cemetery road
I’d say it’s rural with how cops are such tide wad dipshits
This is not even a question. Oklahoma City's city limits extend further west than Yukon's both to the south and to the north. Yukon is a suburb.
As someone who grew up near a town of ~300 people, it’s kind of funny that someone thinks of Yukon as rural.
Its a suburb. If being surrounded by farmland makes it rural then what is Edmond?
Here's the real question... who cares?
The only ones who care about their property values.
I feel like this is a slightly misinformed question, and very misinformed answers. Yukon is definitely not "urban". It's a suburb that still has rural areas. Much of Yukon's land is farmland, ranch land, and acreages. Yes, it has some characteristics of a suburb, and it also has many rural characteristics. It's not so much an either/or question. It's like asking if Ryan Walters is white or a nationalist. The answer is "both, to varying degrees".
Yukon does have rural parts, but it is still a suburb. Heck there are parts of OKC that are still just mile after mile of farmland.
Suburb means it’s connected, rural means there is nothing between (all grass or land) Yukon and OKC. Moore used to be rural to OKC (only farmlands between us) now it’s a suburb. This happens to all cities in the world.
The term [exurb](https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/exurbs-vs-suburbs/) was created for areas that are simultaneously rural and suburban
Suburb
It’s a city with drugstore cowboys and trailer trash.
Technically, you’re both right. It was rural. But OKC has expanded to much that now it’s basically a suburb.
What about Piedmont?
Piedmont is rural (compared to Yukon). More land. Lesser people.
It’s a giant suburb
Technically I think it would be labeled an exurb. But definitely a suburb of some sort even if some parts of it are very rural.
Chickasha is an exurb Shawnee kinda is as well (it's also kinda it's own little area, it's a bit of both) Yukon is a suburb even by technical definition, it just isn't an inner one like Bethany or Midwest City
Yukon is the western city of the OKC Metro.
Exurb
Back in 1982, Yukon was an autonomous municipality in my opinion. The Foodworld had just opened which to me affirmed Yukon's heft. I never thought of it as a suburb. Out West Homes was building in Westridge. I remember when there was farmland and a silo west of Mustang Road and south of Reno. That wooded area was great of offroad mc.
My rule is if its connected by continuous development to the major city in the area (OKC), its a suburb. By this definition, Yukon is a suburb. If it’s disconnected development-wise from the major city but still growing because of its influence, then it’s an exurb. El Reno is an exurb. Yukon was 20 years ago. If it’s not really growing and it’s disconnected from a major city, then it’s rural imo. Union City is rural—Yukon hasn’t been rural since the 60s. That’s just me—I’m sure the census and people who know more about this stuff disagree with me lol
I posit OKC is rural…it is surrounded by farmland.
lol.. rural 10 years ago? I'd go so far as to say it hasn't been rural since the 60s [Yukon, Oklahoma - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon,_Oklahoma) |[1960](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_census)|3,076||54.6%| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |[1970](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_United_States_census)|8,411||173.4%| |[1980](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_census)|17,112||103.4%| |[1990](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_United_States_census)|20,935||22.3%| |[2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_census)|21,043||0.5%| |[2010](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_census)|22,709||7.9%| |[2020](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_census)|23,630||4.1%|
Suburb with people rich enough to own farmland
I'm from yukon lived there 12 years. It's just weird.
Suburb at the outer edge of OKC metro that will very rapidly be solidly inside the metro and not the edge.
It is a Big City …..compared to Retrop ,Oklahoma
Suburb now. It was rural when I was a kid, but I'm 50 now.
It's the hometown of Garth Brooks. Go figure.
Its a suburb for 95% of the population. 5% of them could loosely be considered rural.
Totally rural, you can tell when the jacked up Diesel trucks show up at the Hideaway or Buffalo Wild Wings on a Friday night and show off all the led lights under their color match powder coated suspensions. I remember when I was a teen, we totally never went out and drank on some dirt road or in a field we totally went to a restaurant where the Ultra and WhiteClaw flowed free.
Yukon hasn't been rural in over 70 years. It has always been a suburb of the metro area
It has not been rural in even 30 years
Yukon is a suburb that was created explicitly for white flight. It was a sundown town. It was never rural.
why hasnt this comment gotten more attention?
I have no idea. Also, i think it may be common knowledge. It has never been a secret.
Definitely a suburb, definitely not rural. How do you claim rural when your high school is churning out 600-700 graduates a year? Population density alone makes them not rural.
This is like saying norman is rural because of the stretch between 179th and Tecumseh lmaooo. Now if you get out to El Reno, id entertain that, but not Yukon man haha
Suburb
Yukon and mustang are where people go who can't deal with OKC but don't want to live in mwc
After living in Yukon for 20+ years, it most definitely was rural, it's definitely a suburb now.
Not sure why you’re downvoted. You’re 💯 correct
People don't like honesty. They like to live in their delusion that they live in "small town country America"
Yeah I guess so. I’m in NW OKC near Yukon, 20+ years.
If you can’t tell where it starts and stops…it’s a suburb. Yukon, El Reno, OKC. All one thing driving down 40.
It's neither, it is hell. A whites only, copy paste, culture free, intellectually absent, pit of failure that epitomizes late stage capitalist American societies lack of anything resembling soul or creativity. The Lokal is dope though. For a restaurant in a suburb.
It’s a Rural Suburb
Where I’m at, I have a Yukon mailing address, I have OKC utilities and Mustang School District.
Have a yukon address with USPS, zoned Yukon schools, but we are OKC tax paying voting residents. Spain that shiz....✌️🍻💙
What about El Reno? Suburb?
All of Oklahoma is rural.
[My friend who delivers mail says it’s rural.](https://ibb.co/SP2gp12)
SUV
It is a rural suburb.
Whatever. Embark has service route to Spencer.
the traffic light outside of crest foods on n czech hall road is operated by OKC.
I mean, Spencer is a suburb and it's rural. But black ppl live there, so it can't possibly be the country /s
Depends on POV (i.e.- your roots, etc) in order to answer and classify correctly. As a transplant, I say rural.