Urbano e rural: Três em cada cem paulistas moram no campo

Cerejo, Lucas Nakamura

doi:10.5281/zenodo.23540400

No. 066 Census · income People across the land 4/4

Urban and rural

Three in every hundred people in São Paulo live in the countryside

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Map of São Paulo’s municipalities in six shades, from cream to dark brown, by the share of residents in rural households. The south, the Ribeira Valley, the Serra do Mar and the Mantiqueira are dark brown; the centre-north and Greater São Paulo are pale. Callouts point to Pedra Bela, with 73% of residents in the countryside, and Mogi das Cruzes, with 27,000 rural residents. In the panel, the share of the state’s rural residents in each class, with the number of municipalities, bars by intermediate region, from 11% in Sorocaba to 0.7% in São Paulo, and the municipalities with most rural residents. — Fig. 066 São Paulo State (SP) EPSG:4674 Source: IBGE

Of the 44.1 million residents of private households in São Paulo, 1.30 million live in rural areas: 2.9%, three in every hundred. The state’s countryside is concentrated in the south and east: in the Sorocaba intermediate region, 11% of residents are rural; in Presidente Prudente, 8%; in São Paulo, 0.7%. The map darkens in the Ribeira Valley and the upper Paranapanema, the Mantiqueira and the Serra do Mar, where towns are small and homes scattered. Pedra Bela, on the border with Minas Gerais, has 73% of its residents in the countryside, and 14 municipalities have a rural majority. In numbers, the largest countryside is Mogi das Cruzes’s, with 27,000 rural residents, ahead of Ibiúna and Piedade; the capital has 16,000. Five municipalities in Greater São Paulo, and Águas de São Pedro, have none. Last plate of the collection “People across the land”.

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municipios polygon 645 municipalities: urban and rural households and residents, rural share, age and sex (the same layer as plate 064)
regioes_intermediarias polygon 11 intermediate geographic regions
limite_estadual polygon State boundary

Metadata

Sources: IBGE — 2022 Population Census: table 9922 (households and residents by urban/rural status) (2022)
IBGE — Municipal Mesh 2025 (2025)
Extent: São Paulo State (SP)
CRS / Projection: SIRGAS 2000 (EPSG:4674)
EPSG:4674
Software: Node.js · d3-geo · QGIS
Method: Residents of occupied permanent private households in rural areas over all residents of those households, by municipality, from SIDRA 9922, in six classes; municipalities with no rural residents shown apart.
Version: v1.0.0
Licence: CC BY 4.0
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23540400

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Cerejo, L. N. (2026). Urbano e rural: três em cada cem paulistas moram no campo [Urban and rural: Three in every hundred people in São Paulo live in the countryside] (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23540400

@dataset{cerejo2026_urbano_e_rural_sp,
  author    = {Cerejo, Lucas Nakamura},
  title     = {Urbano e rural: Três em cada cem paulistas moram no campo},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23540400},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23540400},
  language  = {portuguese},
  note      = {English title: Urban and rural: Three in every hundred people in São Paulo live in the countryside. Licence CC BY 4.0}
}

How to read this plate area, projection, scale, legend and source

1 Area: São Paulo State (SP) The area the plate covers. Outside it, neighbours and sea are drawn in grey, just for orientation.
2 Coordinates and projection: SIRGAS 2000 (EPSG:4674) The layers are in SIRGAS 2000; the drawing’s projection is written in the colophon at the foot of the panel.
3 Scale: Graphic scale bar in the panel The scale bar is true on the central meridian; away from it, measured distances vary a little.
4 Legend and layers: 3 layers in the GeoPackage · polygon Read the legend before the map: it tells you whether a colour is a rate or a class, and whether a circle is a total.
5 Sources: IBGE (2022); IBGE (2025) Every figure comes from a public source, with its year. The data sheet gives each one’s address.

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Method notes · No. 066

Urban and rural population in São Paulo’s municipalities

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Plate No. 066, the last of four in the collection People across the land. Density, tract by tract, is on plate 063.

What the files contain

Layer (GPKG)	Geometry	Content
`municipios`	polygon	645 municipalities: `dppo`, `dppo_urbana`, `dppo_rural` (occupied permanent private households), `moradores`, `moradores_urbana`, `moradores_rural` (their residents), `pct_rural`, plus the age and sex of plate 064
`regioes_intermediarias`, `limite_estadual`	polygon	reference

It is the same GPKG as plate 064, with the QGIS style moradores_rurais. The CSV has the same table, without geometry.

Method

SIDRA 9922: occupied permanent private households and their residents, by urban or rural status, in each municipality.
Rural share = rural residents over the total, in six classes closed on the right: up to 2%, 2 to 5%, 5 to 10%, 10 to 20%, 20 to 40% and over 40%. The six municipalities with no rural residents are grey.
Intermediate regions: sum of rural residents over the sum of residents.

Limitations

Urban and rural follow perimeters set by municipal law: a house in open country inside the urban perimeter counts as urban, and a gated estate outside it as rural.
The table counts only residents of permanent private households; collective and makeshift dwellings are left out (about 294,000 people in the state).
The municipal map paints the whole area in one colour; within each, countryside and town are in different places, as plate 063 shows.

View this map’s folder on GitHub