Abstract
The approval in February 2019 of the Strategy for spatial development of the Russian Federation for the period until 2025, in which one of the principles of spatial development of the country is designated as a differentiated approach to directions and measures of state support for socio-economic development of territories, requires scientific substantiation of the appropriate methodological tools for typology of municipalities. In this regard, this article analyzes a number of methods for a comprehensive, integrated assessment of the level of development of municipalities. Four options of our own methods are proposed for assessing the level of socio-economic development of municipal districts, urban districts and their classification: a method for calculating an integral indicator of socio-economic development level, a method of summing up places, a method for scoring each indicator, and a method for scoring each block of indicators. Testing the proposed tools on the materials of the Vologda region determined the most optimal methodology for the purposes of implementing regional and local socioeconomic policies.