Table 6 Diffusion of new rural settlements within different population densities ranges at the county scale, 2000–2020.
Scope | Outlying | Edge-expansion | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of counties | Proportion (%) | Number of counties | Proportion (%) | ||
Population density (N/km2) | ≤100 | 460 | 62.33 | 278 | 37.67 |
100–200 | 200 | 37.81 | 329 | 62.19 | |
200–300 | 131 | 38.08 | 213 | 61.92 | |
300–400 | 104 | 38.10 | 169 | 61.90 | |
400–500 | 108 | 51.92 | 100 | 48.08 | |
500–600 | 99 | 60.74 | 64 | 39.26 | |
600–700 | 81 | 73.64 | 29 | 26.36 | |
>700 | 361 | 74.28 | 125 | 25.72 | |