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Demography is about people and communities.

A community seeking economic development needs to be able to identify its population to the extent necessary for attracting the attention of prospects. Information can be distributed by community profile which may be published online or made available in a location package. Demographics and/or other information about a population generally needed by members of the .network target user group, for example, include ...
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the one hand, a community is a potential market in which case information that is statistically generated may suffice. Some enterprise developers may take a sophisticated market-analysis-approach, for example they may expect to find geocoded demographic data available. Others may want to simply network and observe. In any case, economic developers interested in the growth of the places they represent as markets, need to be in position to offer data gathering assistance.

On the other hand, a community is a place of potential investment for prospects who will create more and better jobs, in which case the view of demographic broadens beyond learning about the characteristics of a population as a consumer market. The demography of a local labor force is important to the prospect who will become a significant employer in a community. Working with this kind of prospect is where the rubber meets the road for most economic developers who, when experienced, know how to anticipate their informational needs. Demographics is one of about 30 location data elements in this regard.

Following are suggestions for learning more:

See the W-file in the .network glossary.

Copy and paste the following italicized text in the search box at the top of this page:

Search the Web for ... demographic information location economic development

Search the Web for ... demographics economic development data

Search the Web for ... demographics workforce business information location sites

Search the Web for ... site selection assistance location data demographics

Search the Web for ... demographics transportation labor incentives location

Search the Web for ... location data suppliers demographics real estate maps contact

As you review your search results you should see specific locations offering demographic information. This tells you that you can substitute the identity of a specific place for the word location. For example, say you would like to find demographic information for Atlanta, GA or for the entire state. That being the case the text you search for should be ...

Either demographic information Atlanta, GA, US economic development or demographic information Georgia US economic development. Two letter abbreviations for other countries in www.economicdevelopment.net/area-development/index.htm.

 

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