Data SnapShot ReportsExamining Demographic and Economic Trends

The basics

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Table of contents

National trends

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A closer look

03Contact us

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What is a Data SnapShot

Report?

Why is a Data SnapShot

Report useful?

Who uses a Data SnapShot

Report?

thebasics

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What is a PCRD Data SnapShot Report?

A Purdue Center for Regional Development

(PCRD) Data SnapShot Report helps you

understand how large scale demographic and

economic trends—the shifts that are taking place

in our national economy—impact your county.

The basics

section 01

Labor MarketDemography CommutingEconomy

The report provides a profile of your county’s

population and economy in simple, easy to

read graphics.

Data SnapShot Reports include information on the

following subjects:

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Why is a Data SnapShot Report useful?

It is not uncommon for local leaders to be inundated with a

variety of data that exist for their county.

A Data SnapShot Report highlights the most critical data for your county

and helps the leadership in your county get on the same page. It

provides a common foundation of understanding.

In this way, Data SnapShot Reports help set the stage for local leaders to

plan for and respond to important demographic, social and economic

shifts occurring in their county.

The basics

section 01

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Who uses a Data SnapShot Report?Anyone who is interested in the future of your county can gain valuable insights by reviewing a Data SnapShot Report.

Elected

officials

The basics

section 01

Economic

and workforce

development

practitioners

Nonprofit

organizations

and community

foundation

leaders

Local

business

Educational

institutions

National trends to consider

Aging population

Population growth

Population diversity

Urban sprawl

Non-metropolitan counties

Manufacturing

Middle skill jobs

national trends

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Some national trends to consider

Your county will experience growth or decline

based, in part, on national trends.

Any county faces a challenge of building a

prosperous future within these national trends.

The Data SnapShot Report provides you a new pair

of glasses to see how these trends are playing out

in your own county.

The following section highlights some of the

national trends that might be evident in your own

county Data SnapShot Report.

National trends

section 02

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Our population is aging

The proportion of our population that is elderly (65 years or

older) will increase significantly.

The percentage of elderly Americans that is elderly will increase

from 12 percent of the total population in 2000 to 21 percent in

2050.

National trends

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We will add 100 million people by 2050

Our national population will grow 42 percent between

2010 and 2050.

We will add about 130 million new people.

The majority of our population growth (over 80 percent) will

come from immigrants and their descendants.

National trends

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Our population will grow increasingly racially, ethnically and culturally diverse

By 2050, the proportion of our population that is

Asian will double from 4 percent to 8 percent.

National trends

section 02

Asian +4%

Hispanic +12%

Black +2%

White -9%

The Hispanic population will also double from 12

percent to 24 percent.

The African American population will increase

from 13 percent to 15 percent.

By 2050, the White population will decline from

81 percent to 72 percent of the total population.

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Urban sprawl will continue and we will see the growth of mega-regions

Over the last few decades, our metropolitan regions have

sprawled outward, and this trend will likely continue.

As the population continues to concentrate in mega-regions and

coastal areas, once-significant industrial cities will continue to

shrink.

National trends

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Growth in non-metro regions will be uneven

Nearly 15 percent of the U.S.

population (about 46 million in 2013)

live in non-metropolitan counties.

While over 1,200 non-metro counties have

lost population since 2010, over 700 non-

metropolitan counties have gained

population.

National trends

section 02

700 non-metropolitan counties have gained population

1,200 non-metropolitan counties have lost population

Since 2010…

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Manufacturing in the U.S. is going through a resurgence

Major advances are taking place in energy,

robotics, materials and applied information

technology.

Growing productivity in the manufacturing sector

translates into higher incomes. In 2013, the

average manufacturing worker earned over

$77,000.

National trends

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After decades of

decline, the prospects

of manufacturing in the

United States have begun

to turn around.

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The growth of middle-skill jobs

Significant job growth is taking place in middle-skill jobs.

These are positions that require more than a high school

education but less than a four-year college degree.

Middle-skill jobs represent the largest share of jobs in Indiana,

about 55 percent of the total employment.

National trends

section 02

How the Data Snapshot

report accelerates your

strategy

a closer look

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How a Data SnapShot Report can accelerate your strategy

A Data SnapShot Report sets the stage for

deeper conversations about how your

county can prosper in the decades ahead.

Basic, practical understandings of your population

and economy can move your conversations to a

new level. Rather than getting lost in the sea of

statistics or, worse yet, opinions not grounded in

reality, Data SnapShot Reports point you towards

promising pathways.

A closer look

section 03

Economic development takes place when leaders

come together to collaborate on an investment

strategy. A Data SnapShot Report makes the

formation of these collaborations easier.

Equally important, a Data SnapShot Report will

help your county develop a new narrative about its

future. To keep and attract young people to your

county, your leadership needs to tell a coherent

story about your county’s future. A Data SnapShot

Report serves as a practical place to begin.

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For more informationIf you would like more information on a Data SnapShot Report for your county, please contact us.

Contact us

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Purdue

Extension

Financial support for Data

SnapShot Reports is

provided, in part, by

Purdue Extension.

www.extension.purdue.edu

Bo Beaulieu

Director of the Purdue Center

for Regional Development and

Assistant Director of the

Extension Community

Development

ljb@purdue.edu

Purdue Center for

Regional Development

(PCRD)

PCRD creates Data

SnapShot Reports for

Indiana counties.

www.pcrd.purdue.edu

For more information,

please contact Bo

Beaulieu at

ljb@purdue.edu

765-494-7273

The Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) seeks to pioneer

new ideas and strategies that contribute to regional collaboration,

innovation and prosperity.