Theme: Population Decline - NEOSCC Conditions & Trends

Northeast Ohio has built out into the region even as its population has slightly declined

Finding: Northeast Ohio’s population peaked in 1970 and in the decades since has fluctuated up and down. By 2010, Northeast Ohio’s population was 7% smaller than it was in 1970.

Northeast Ohio’s population also now takes up more space; population has grown in some areas that had been relatively vacant and has decreased in many urban areas that had been denser.

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Finding: Northeast Ohio’s population has been spreading out.

Population has grown in some areas that had been less populated and has decreased in many urban areas that had been more populated.

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Finding: Land-cover data suggests that approximately 4-5% more acreage in Northeast Ohio was converted from “undeveloped” to “developed” between 1979 and 2006.

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Finding: Economic development incentives have often been used to assist companies that moved out of the central cities.

Generally, use of these incentives involves the consideration of only the location-specific project impact.

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