Abstract: Rural development has drawn special attention with promoting implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. On the basis of reviewing the researches on village classification at home and abroad, combined with the distribution characteristics of natural settlements in China, this paper proposes a quantitative village classification method based on residential density. Taking Tiandeng County in Chongzuo City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region as an example, the paper makes GIS software on obtaining the residential density, so that five cell types were divided. The conclusion has achieved village classification at natural settlement scale in Tiandeng County. To some extent, it makes up for the deficiency of direct village classification by an uncertain or subjective criterion. The classification method summarized in this paper is simple to understand the actual distribution characteristics of villages, which is of great guiding significance to the specific village planning and design in the future.