March 29, 2009 - While CtSDC forecasts that Connecticut will retain its current five (5)
Congressional seats following the 2010 national census on April 1, 2010, the
demographic findings associated with this projection may be of greater concern.
This CtSDC forecast underscores that Connecticut’s
rapidly aging population is growing increasingly more dependent on a dwindling workforce.
The state’s “Dependency Ratio” of non-working people (ages 0-19 and 65 and older) per 100 workers
(ages 20-64) will increase from 68.5 in 2000 to 70.3 in 2010. At the same time,
state projections from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2000, 2010 and 2030
forecast that by next year, Connecticut will have the 9th
highest percentage of people aged 65 and older in the country.
Read the Full Report or for the five (5) data files, go to the
Congressional District Projection page.
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Through local ordinance, the municipalities within each of Connecticut's
fifteen (15) planning regions have voluntarily created one of the three types of Regional Planning
Organization allowed under Connecticut statute: (1) Regional Council of Elected
Officials (CEO), (2) a Regional Council of Governments (COG), or (3) a Regional Planning Agency(RPA).
These RPOs administer a variety of planning and coordination activities on behalf of their
constituent towns.
To help you locate your planning region, go to OPM's Regional Planning Organization map.
Here is a time-line of Household ages, 2000 up to 2030, at the state-wide level, as an example of the graphics that
accompany the spreadsheet projections:
Connecticut Statewide - Household Population 2000 to 2030
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CtSDC in the News - 2/10/2009
Community group wants to reinforce Spanish (2/8/09)
Study is the only way to build language skills, said Orlando Rodriguez,
the UConn demographer.
"They're not going to get the grammar at home," he said. "Imagine if you are brought up
speaking English but you never learn English in school. You still wouldn't be able
to read and write it."
The Danbury News Times
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