Summary:

The article presents the dynamics of socio-economic changes in the rural district of Krakow. For the purposes of analysis defined the phenomenon of socio-economic development with the help of variables clustered in four groups of information. Analyzes selected demographic factors, factors of an economic variables describing the social infrastructure and technical support. The analysis of changes in the analyzed period was based on the procedure for making typological delimitation of the communes of the district of Krakow and the municipalities homogeneous group. The values of the variables taken for analysis from sources of Official Statistics (GUS) from the years 2010-2014. As a result of the procedure typological defined types of municipalities homogeneous in terms of socio-economic conditions in the studied years, based on the selected diagnostic features. It presents the ranking of municipalities, and compared the dynamics of socio-economic development in the period in each rural district of Krakow.