Product No.: 26105
Date Published: 09/2025
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This report presents the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s (DVRPC’s) adopted v2.0 2050 county-and municipal-level population and employment forecasts and describes the method used to develop them. Population and employment forecasts are a critical component of long-range land use and transportation planning. As a part of DVRPC’s long-range planning activities, the Commission is required to maintain forecasts with at least a 20-year horizon, or to the horizon year of the long-range plan.
This forecast updates DVRPC’s 2050 v1.0 forecasts, adopted in 2021, which was the first forecast with a horizon year of 2050. Referenced as the 2050 v2.0 forecasts, the updated population and employment totals were formally adopted by the DVRPC Board on October 24, 2024, and serve as the basis for DVRPC planning and travel modeling activities.
Geographic Area Covered: DVRPC's nine-county region, including Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer counties in New Jersey and Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania.
Key Words: population, population forecasts, employment, employment forecast, National Establishments Time-Series database, NETS, 2020 Census, Census Bureau, BEA, Bureau of Economic Analysis, development, Update: Connections 2050, long-range plan.
Staff Contact(s)
- Gregory Diebold (gdiebold@dvrpc.org)
Project Team
- Michael Ruane Associate Director, Data & Technology
- Brett Fusco Associate Director, Comprehensive Planning
- Christopher Pollard Manager, Office of GIS
- Jaclyn Davis Manager, Office of Long Range Planning
- Mark Gatti Associate Manager, Office of GIS
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