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CountyTrends
  -- tools for analyzing demographic composition and change

How will demographic change in your county impact you, your business, markets, and service areas? Between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2006, the percent Hispanic population increased from 25 percent to 30 percent in Maricopa County, AZ (Phoenix). How does this compare to other counties, or markets? How will the population change between now and 2015? For many organizations it important to know how the size of the population in 5-year age groups are changing to assess how this might impact the size of the available workforce. Growth in older population age groups is widely discussed, but exactly what is the magnitude of change and how might this impact service requirements or business operations? Answers to these questions are provided by the Proximity CountyTrends described in this document.

Benefits from CountyTrends
There are many benefits from using CountyTrends. See this summary of benefits for more information.
In August 2007, the Census Bureau released annually updated estimates of the of the U.S. by county by age, race/ethnicity, and gender for the period 2000 through 2006. These data are of critical importance in understanding how the demographic composition of individual counties, and county groupings are changing. Proximity has augmented these data with data access and analytical software and projections to 2015.

Proximity has organized these data into a national scope database structure so that county, metro, county groups, and state demographic trend analyses can be performed. Available as an optional, integrated feature of Proximity CommunityViewer, CountyTrends is used to create profiles and analytical views which aid in the analysis of patterns, composition, and trends. Click on the following graphic for a larger view (and then press F11 key).

Maricopa County, AZ (Phoenix area) Hispanic population trends by age



Maricopa County, AZ Hispanic population trends by age -- each cell as percent of total population



Age Groups. Population estimates are provided for the total and the 18 age categories.  The 18 age categories are in 5 year age intervals 0-to-4 years to 80-to-84 years, and 85 years and over.

Race-Ethnicity Groups. For each age group, estimates are provided for 71 race/ethnic by gender categories. In the following table, the reference at the left is the short-hand name used for the longer description provided at the right. The shorthand names are used in the CountyTrends operations to select and combine categories of interest. Refer to the Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin for more information regarding these categories.

TOT_POP Total population
TOT_M Total male population
TOT_FTotal female population
WA_MWhite alone male
        click here to view full table

Metros, County Groups, and States. Use optional methods of selecting geography. For example, select a metro from a dropdown list. The 28 county Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA MSA demographic composition-trend profile is shown below. Select the metro and the county component data are aggregated and displayed. Click on the following graphic for a larger view (and then press F11 key).



More Information. For more information about CountyTrends, please Contact Proximity and include reference to CountyTrends in the comments section with any related questions.


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