PRC Population Forecast 2024 Recordings Available Now!

Region 3 
Thank you for attending the PSUPRC Population Forecast proposal meetings. The slides, recordings of our conversations, and the forecast numbers may now be found on our forecast landing page here. We will be reaching out to a few people by the end of the week to ask follow up questions based on our discussions. For anyone else, if you would like to schedule a meeting with PSU PRC before forecasts become finalized please reach out to askprc@pdx.edu Forecasts will be finalized by May 5, 2024. 

As mandated by the Oregon Administrative Rules, the proposed
population forecasts may be appealed until May 5th, 2024. A full review of the appeal process may be found here, under the subtitle "Oregon Population Forecast Review and Appeal Process".

Beginning in 1973 with the passage of Senate Bill (SB) 100, Oregon’s growth management system has relied on population forecasts as the primary tool for determining Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) expansions, as well as for crafting planning policy. By estimating future populations based on historic and current trends, as well as assuming the likelihood of future events, population forecasts provide necessary information to help planners, public officials, private firms, and developers better understand the short and long-term implications of population growth in local areas.  
In the recent past, Oregon law required that counties prepare coordinated population forecasts according to "generally accepted" demographic methods, which yielded forecasts produced with a highly diverse set of methods. Equally important, the prohibitive cost of forecasting meant that not all communities could update their forecasts on a regular basis.  Recognizing the need to be more responsive to accounting for current population trends by preparing population forecasts on a more regular basis, and with a consistent forecast methodology for communities across the state, the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate approved legislation in 2013 assigning coordinated population forecasting to the Population Research Center (PRC) at Portland State University (PSU).
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