Frontier Counties,
2007
Hawaii and Alaska not to scale
Frontier Status*
(# of counties)
Frontier, Metropolitan (14)
Frontier, Non-metropolitan (438)
Not frontier (2590)
*Frontier counties are defined as having fewer than seven persons per square mile.
Source: Area Resource File, 2008: US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration.
Prepared by: The North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.