Our New Website...

This is the first blog for the Nevada State Demographer website. We will be migrating from the old website to this one. We hope that you find it useful. This site is part of an effort by the University of Nevada, Reno to better serve folks who are looking for information and assistance. While the State Demographer’s office is still part of the Nevada Small Business Development Center we are also part of a larger effort to organize UNR’s outreach programs as part of the Business Services Group. Please feel free to look around our new website, it is still a work in progress. Also, feel free to comment about it and make suggestions to us on ways to improve it.

2010 Population Projections...

On October 12 we released our 2010 projections for Nevada and its counties they are available through our projection’s page. The news release for them is available from the University of Nevada, Reno’s website by clicking here. The two sources of the projections, the State Demographer’s offices using the Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI) model as a tool and Moody’s.com, are in agreement that we could be seeing a loss in population approaching 54,000 people between now and 2014. The Moody’s.com data presents a scenario of sustained growth returning beginning in 2014. In considering our future and how much these projections portray our future we suggest the user consider five questions. The Five Questions: How soon will employment recover for the country as a whole and Nevada in particular? What kind of jobs will make up any employment recovery and what skills will they require? How mobile is labor, that is, how willing are people to relocate and do they have the...