New Census Data Released | New Community Reports Available
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released another batch of 2010 Census demographic data for counties and cities. This new release contains information on age, household and family relationships, and some basic housing data.
Liesl Eathington, Department of Economics, ISUE has compiled sets of city-level and county-level reports summarizing these data, and they are available on the ReCAP site. The links are below. Please distribute these links to anybody you think might find them useful. Link to county reports | Link to city reports
10 Keys to Community success was presented by Rand Fisher, Iowa Area Development Group, at the January 2011 annual meeting.
The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture was mandated by the 2010 Legislature to provide needs analysis throughout the state along with recommendations about what the State of Iowa should do to support and promote local food production.
The final report was presented to the Legislature in january of 2011.
Download the Report Here in PDF
Population growth in rural SW Iowa
Whose moving to towns in Southwest Iowa and why? When the Community Vitality Center noticed the data, it became intrigued and conducted a study. Knowing why people are moving in and out of the region can assist communities plan resident retention and recruitment tactics.
A survey was mailed to everyone who moved in or out of a rural community within an 18 month time-frame using a purchased database. The questionnaire asked about the factors that influenced the household's decision to move and their thoughts about the community where they lived now and where they used to live.
Reports on the data collection and analysis are now available for you at http://www.cvcia.org/content/projects/8.migration.and.population/index.html
Counties sampled in the Coalition membership region were Adams, Union, Taylor and Page. These reports might be valuable for all to review as your community thinks through how to attract new residents and retain those already there.
Heartland Leadership Institute's poster can be downloaded below.
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SWICO 2010 Summit: Using Entrepreneurship as a Regional Economic Driver
Don Macke, Rural Policy Institute, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship provided a link to an audio version of his presentation at the June rural summit. You can cllck HERE to listen to the audio.
Developers from twenty rural states gathered in Vermont for a conference on What Works. The information and data gathered by an Iowa delegation from ISUE served as an affirmation of the vision for a southwest Iowa regional entrepreneurial development system and work continued until the Rural Development Center along with Buy Iowa Online were launched in 2007 and 2009 respectively.
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