The presentation deals with the quantification of villages' and rural communities' conditions. Distributing financial sources of rural development among the regions is not an easy task. The authors confirm the fact that the results of different methods used for quantifying conditions may be dissimilar. The methods seem to be effective in Hungary which quantify the economic, ecological and social conditions of communities separately in harmony with the functions of rural development. The authors propose an international research, which use the same method to compare communities in the USA, in Europe and even in the candidate countries of the European Union.