Quantifying Rurality: County-Level Case Rates of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the United States by Rurality, 2016 to 2022

Persons in rural communities experience barriers to preventative sexually transmitted infection services, including screening. We calculated aggregated annual national rural and urban chlamydia and gonorrhea case rates for 2016 to 2022 and found that rates were consistently higher among urban counties. Trends in both urban and rural case rates followed a similar trajectory over time.