It pays more than being unemployed. And no doubt the hiring process is long and deters a lot of applicants.
Based on your response, I am not sure what kind of answer you are looking for. Any geographic areas or sectors that have a "high demand" for pharmacists are inherently going to have significant disadvantages in this market of oversupply. There is a reason why they are still "high demand" - low pay, undesireable location, poor/dangerous working conditions, or a combination of all three.
There isn't just one rural geographic area with a high demand for pharmacists (by their nature, rural areas dont have a lot of anything), rather they are scattered throughout the country. You'll have to research each particular area you are interested in to see if there are available positions. If Alaska isn't your jam, based on 2016 BLS data, rural areas in MS, TN, AK, KY, AL, TX and MO may be worth looking into, but I'm not sure of specific regions in each state.
There are several government agencies that have vacancies, including IHS, BOP, and FDA/ORA that you qualify for as a pharmd, but starting pay may be in the 60k-80k range, and are mostly in remote locations (or require lots of travel as is the case with FDA/ORA jobs).
I can almost guarantee there isnt a secret trove of pharmacist jobs that someone is hiding from recent grads. Schools and employers wouldnt let it be kept secret for long. (Although I do still meet pharmacy students and school admins who have never heard of the USPHS Commissioned Corps, so it is possible there is a great job out there that people don't know about. Then again, USPHs isnt actively recruiting for pharmacists right now, but even when we were during peak pharmacist shortage a lot of folks had never heard of us and we kept calling ourselves the Best Kept Secret in pharmacy...).
Anyway, in addition to SDN, i recommend you consult with your school's career center, utilize your local government employment resources, attend professional meetings and schmooze as much as possible, and do some googling in order to find those mysterious high demand jobs.