Based on the responses of the householders to the “Social Stress Scale”, we intended to analyse and compare stress-patterns between “Kaso (thinly-populated)” and urban communities. We obtained 28 core-profiles, by factor-analysing the scale, calculating “factor-item-scores” for each subject, and adopting cluster analysis, Further, we found 9 types finally by reducing the number of these core-profiles by the Hayashi's III. Five (low-stress, high-stress-for-institutional-systems, high-stress, high-stress-in-vocation-and-business, and high-stress-for-dwelling-circumstances), out of the nine, were extracted from the “Kaso”, and three (low-stress, high-stress-for-institutional-system, and high-stress-in-vocation-and-business) from the urban, and the rest (high-stress-for-educational-and-cultural-facilities) was related to both “Kaso” and urban. The description of each type by the representative cases revealed the progress of urbanization and complexities in the “Kaso” community. Methodological problems were also discussed.