Rural residents in the United States do not always agree on local development priorities, yet understanding and accounting for their preferences is a step towards more effective and equitable community development. We use survey data spanning different types of rural Intermountain West communities to gauge residents' preference weights for economic and environmental rural development goals. Given that community tenure and age are often related to development preferences, respondents are divided into three groups based on these factors using a classification tree approach. Long-term residents (>36 percent of life spent in the community) have the strongest economic preferences, while older newcomers have the strongest environmental preferences. The Leti heterogeneity index reveals that long-term residents also displayed the greatest homogeneity of preferences. Ordered probit analysis shows that goal preferences are also related to sex, education, household income, community financial security, and the share of county income derived from wealth assets. These findings provide a more nuanced and methods-based understanding of residential tenure in a community and its relationship to development attitudes across a variety of rural place types, all valuable information for rural community and economic development practitioners.

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美国西部农村社区发展对经济和环境目标的偏好*

美国的农村居民并不总是就当地的发展优先事项达成一致，但了解和考虑他们的偏好是朝着更有效和公平的社区发展迈出的一步。我们使用跨越不同类型的山间西部农村社区的调查数据来衡量居民对经济和环境农村发展目标的偏好权重。鉴于社区任期和年龄通常与发展偏好相关，受访者使用分类树方法根据这些因素分为三组。长期居民（超过 36% 的生活在社区中）具有最强的经济偏好，而年长的新移民则具有最强的环境偏好。Leti 异质性指数显示，长期居民的偏好也表现出最大的同质性。有序概率分析表明，目标偏好还与性别、教育程度、家庭收入、社区财政安全以及来自财富资产的县收入份额有关。这些发现为社区中的住宅使用权及其与各种农村地区类型的发展态度的关系提供了更细致和基于方法的理解，这些信息对于农村社区和经济发展从业者来说都是有价值的信息。