Glossary:Degree of urbanisation
Common term: Degree of urbanisation, Abbreviation: DEGURBA
Short definition: the degree of urbanisation classifies local administrative units (LAUs) as cities, towns and suburbs or rural areas based on a combination of geographical contiguity and population density, measured by minimum population thresholds applied to 1 km² population grid cells; each LAU belongs exclusively to one of these three classes.
The categories are defined as follows:
- cities, otherwise referred to as densely populated areas — code 1;
- towns and suburbs, otherwise referred to as intermediate density areas — code 2;
- rural areas, otherwise referred to as thinly populated areas — code 3.
Urban areas refers to an aggregate composed of information covering cities as well as towns and suburbs (in other words, densely populated areas and intermediate density areas).
Further information
- See Chapter 2 of Eurostat's Territorial typologies manual
- Degree of urbanisation