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What’s New: Countywide Data Tables
County Releases First Phase
of Population Projections Project Data
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The Planning Department’s Population Projections project has resulted in the development of a set of county population projections that provide information for Rockland County from 2005 to the year 2035. These projections, which were developed by the Program on Applied Demographics at Cornell University through a contract with the County of Rockland, were prepared through two inter-dependent phases that relied on separate methodologies for county and sub-county projections. The results of this project provide information on basic demographic characteristics including population, age, sex, households and housing units.
These County population, household and housing projections are
not predictions of future population, household and housing size
and composition, but rather are projections illustrating the
impact of recent rates of population change, housing change and
demographic characteristic shares. Rockland's population has
been projected using current life expectancy and survival rates,
fertility rates and rates of net migration. Rockland's household
and housing unit projections are driven by the size of the
household population and its age and sex composition, as well as
housing unit change and capacity based on current zoning. |