2006 SNWI Home
2006 Wealth Defined
SNWI Uses and Users
Indicators
Social Capital
Health Insurance
Hospital Capacity
Asthma
School Enrollment
Educational Attainment
Youth Organizations
Child Poverty Rate
Violent Crime Rate
Historic Preservation
Performing Arts Attendance
Civic Capacity: Voting Record
Population Growth for SNWI
Population Migration
Demographics of New Residents
Housing Indicators
Natural Capital
Financial Capital
Summary
Population Migration
Population Migration
Why is it important?
To ensure long-term prosperity, communities that foresee high in-migration must be willing to avoid the kind of growth that makes housing prices soar and quality of life decline. In places where most population growth is natural (births minus deaths), increased demand is spread over the two decades that children grow, giving business and community leaders time to develop sound plans for building overall community wealth.
How are we doing?
In-migration accounts for four-fifths of the Sierra’s population growth, and is a consistent factor in the North Central and South Central regions. In the North and East regions, migration patterns fluctuate as local economies grow and decline.
