The invention belongs to the related technical field of country planning, and discloses a rural settlement classification method and system, and the method comprises the steps of obtaining the rurual geographic information data, and carrying out the preprocessing of the geographic information data, and the geographic information data comprising the vector data of a rural settlement patch, a water body, a road, and an administrative boundary; calculating characteristic parameters of rural settlement based on the geographic information data, and the characteristic parameters comprising scale distribution characteristics, spatial distribution characteristics and morphological distribution characteristics; comparing the feature morphological parameters with corresponding preset thresholds to obtain comparison results, and classifying the comparison results to obtain rural settlement classification. According to the invention, the rural settlement distribution condition is quantized and digitized, then the rural settlement is classified according to the digitized data features, classification is more scientific and accurate, detailed analysis can be performed, and the rationality of rural settlement classification is remarkably improved.