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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.
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.
Posted by: Michael Wells | June 19, 2007 at 06:13 PM
Michael/ Anyone/ Everyone - What is going on in Stamford. It cracks the top tens on many of our life-stage rankings? Rich
Posted by: Richard | June 19, 2007 at 07:09 PM