Three Types Of

Communities
By
Eze Cynthia Chisom
Mbi441
 Table of Content
What is a community
Types of communities :
• Rural community (Meaning & characteristics)
• Urban Community (Meaning & characteristics)
• Suburban Community (Meaning & characteristics)
Conclusion & Reference
 What is a Community
Community is a group (whether small or large)
of individuals who tend to live in unity to
achieve a common goal. Before a category of
people could say they are working towards a
mutual goal, the community must be driven by
passion and its participants must, of course, live
in one accord.
 Types Of Communities
On the basis of geographical surroundings and
socio- cultural characteristics, community is
divided into three basic communities:
• Rural community
• Urban community
• suburban community
 Rural Community
Rural community means community that lives in
village, and is dependent on natural environment.
They mostly dependent on agriculture, these
communities have low density of population,
intimate group relationships and these
communities are rich in culture and traditions.
 Characteristics Of Rural Communities
• Size of the Community: The village communities are smaller in area than the urban
communities.
Low population.
• Density of Population: As the density of population is low, the people have intimate
relationships and face-to-face contacts with each other. In a village, everyone knows
everyone.
• Agriculture is the Main Occupation: Source of Income and way of life
• Close contact with nature: Villagers considers land as their real mother, as they
depend on land for food, clothing and shelter.
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• Homogeneity of Population: The village communities are homogenous in nature. Most of their
inhabitants are connected with agriculture and its allied occupations, though there are people
belonging to different castes, religions and classes.
• Social Stratification: In rural society, social stratification is a traditional characteristic, based on
caste. The rural society is divided into various strata on the basis of caste.
• Social Interaction: The interaction level possesses more stability and continuity. The relationships
and interactions in the primary groups are intimate. The family fulfills the needs of the members
and exercises control over them. Primary relations are more strong.
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• Social Mobility: In rural areas, mobility is rigid as all the occupations are based on caste.
Shifting from one occupation to another is difficult as caste is determined by birth. Thus,
caste hierarchy determines the social status of the rural people.
• Social Solidarity: The degree of social solidarity is greater in villages as compared to
urban areas.
Common experience, purposes, customs and traditions form the basis of unity in the
villages.
• Joint Family: family controls the behaviour of individuals, father is head of family,
manages the affairs of the family.
 Urban Community
Urban community includes the towns, cities and
metros with a specific way of life. Higher
density, non agricultural occupation, service
sectors. City Community,
Urbanism is a way of life, city may be defined as
large dense and permanent settlement of socially
heterogeneous individuals.
Majority of services are found in urban area.
 Characteristics Of Urban Community
• Higher density of Population
• Cultural heterogeneity (migrants from different places)
• Man made environment
• Occupation based on trade, commerce, manufacturing, governance.
• Social mobility is more, class structure.
• Formal social control, (police, administration, courts)
• Large scale division of labour and specialization
• indIvidualization, unstable family
 Suburban Community
A suburban community is generally made up of
many people living in single family homes, and
those homes are built close together. A single
family home is a house that is occupied by only
one group of people. 
In the suburbs, the houses are often arranged into
Neighborhoods where homes are built. 
Characteristics Of Suburban Community
• Homogeneity: Due to the way suburbs expanded, there is often a very
homogenous nature to the culture, income, and architecture of the
suburbs. 
• socialization: The sprawl and divided nature of the suburbs lends to
unique patterns of socialization. 
• Resources: The types of resources and jobs in the suburbs are very
different from the cities and leads to commuting trends that don't occur in
the city.
 Conclusion
By now, you should know there are three types of community. However, such
classification contains other few elements (like individuals, microsystems,
organisations, localities, and macro-systems) without which there won’t be
anything to refer to as rural, suburban or urban communities.
Reference
https://youtu.be/A9vj6PllBwU
https://www.slideshare.net/clturman
/community-types-urban-rural-and-suburban