32%: How much more urban households' income was in 2011 than rural households'.
Many more Americans live in urban settings than rural areas, and there's a wide divergence in their spending patterns.
Some 92% of households are considered urban by the Labor Department, which includes any person living in a defined metro area, compared to just 8% of households that are considered rural.
Urban households on average spent $50,348 in 2011, the most recent year for which data are available. That was 18% more than the $42,540 spent by rural households.