On this paper, we aimed to figure out the essential conditions for establishing Generation-Circulable Agricultural Community (GCC), which has stabilized population structure of farmers and enables next generation to succeed to community management and rural resources. Using agricultural census data in Japan, we got the results as follows.
1. GCCs are distributed in each region of Japan, but the number of GCC is only about 5% of agricultural community based on 2005 agricultural census.
2. GCCs are mainly characterized by the extent of financial dependence on agriculture and liquidity of agricultural land. Those two factors are highly related to the geographical and social conditions of a location of GCC.
3. In GCCs which has especially even distribution of young and old generations, the source of income has unified to agriculture or non-agriculture. It tends to be multiple according to the increase of old generation.