Brookings Bill Frey has a new piece out. Here’s the abstract.
Aging baby boomers constitute this decade’s fastest growing age group,
expanding nearly 50 percent in size from 2000 to 2010. This group-more
highly educated, with more professional women, and more diverse than
its predecessors-will add new stresses to suburban and Sun Belt
locations where they are predominantly "retiring in place" with demands
for health, transportation, and other services.
The full report is here. While your on the Brookings site, check out Bruce Katz’s super-insightful remarks on cities, regions and urban policy.
June 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Of the 10 fastest growing cities of “pre-seniors” (ages 55-64), three are in the top 10 on the Rise Creativity Index (Austin, Portland, Raleigh). Of the slowest 10, all but arguably Philadelphia & Stamford are way low on creativity and economically depressed.
June 19th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Michael/ Anyone/ Everyone – What is going on in Stamford. It cracks the top tens on many of our life-stage rankings? Rich