Collocations for rural - adj.

be

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
largely, mainly, mostly, predominantly
Sri Lanka's predominantly rural population

Rural is used with these nouns:
area, character, charm, clinic, community, constituency, cottage, council, counterpart, countryside, county, craft, crime, culture, deprivation, development, dialect, district, dweller, economy, environment, estate, existence, farmer, fox, highway, household, housing, inhabitant, labourer, land, landscape, life, migrant, population, poverty, region, retreat, road, scene, school, sector, setting, settlement, slum, society, sociology, surroundings, town, transport, unemployment, village, voter, worker