Without a bank account - As in urban districts, low-income
households are more likely to have no bank or building society
account than households on average incomes. - As in urban
districts, the proportion of households in rural districts who
have no bank or building society account has fallen over the
last decade. However, the rate of reduction has been much slower
than that in urban districts and, as a result, the differences
between rural and urban districts have been largely eliminated
over the last decade. - See the UK indicator on bank accounts.
On most poverty and social exclusion indicators, rural areas
have 'better scores' than urban areas. The purpose of the table
below is to differentiate between those subjects where rural
areas are 'a bit better' and those where rural areas are 'a lot
better'. It does so by presenting the rural statistics for the
indicator as a proportion of the urban statistics. So, for
example, a rural 'score' of 6 in the table below means that the
rural statistic is around 60%