Long-range forecasts provide data necessary for analyzing the effects of growth, developing policy responses to regional issues, ensuring air quality conformity of transportation plans, and determining the demand for public facilities.
COG's Cooperative Forecasting Program provides regularly updated population, household, and employment forecasts for use in planning and modeling activities at COG, the Transportation Planning Board, and other state, regional, and local agencies. A report analyzing the round of the Cooperative Forecasts can be found here. Established in 1975, the program enables local, regional, and federal agencies to coordinate planning activities using common assumptions about future growth and development. Each series of forecasts constitutes a “Round”, and each round covers a period of 20 to 30 years.
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August 15, 2017
The metropolitan Washington region is growing, but its housing inventory is not keeping up. The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Region...
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May 23, 2017
Commercial construction in the metropolitan Washington region is beginning to rebound, increasing 69 percent between 2015 and 2016, according to the...
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April 3, 2017
In March, COG Executive Director Chuck Bean was a guest on CBS DC’s Washington Report, where he discussed the importance of the region’s human capital to its...
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February 8, 2017
The future economic prosperity of metropolitan Washington will rely on the region’s investment in its residents and their collective knowledge, skills,...
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October 6, 2016
The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), Avance Center for the Advancement of Immigrant/Refugee Health, and the Regional Primary Care...
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April 14, 2016
Jurisdictions large and small will be required by HUD to conduct an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) to support their planning efforts to accommodate future...
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March 9, 2016
The region will add more than 1.5 million people and 1.1 million jobs over the next 30 years, according to the most recent draft of forecasts jointly developed...
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May 13, 2015
According to an annual report by COG, there are 11,623 homeless individuals living in the area – a 2.7 percent decrease (or 323 people) from 2014. The report,...
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May 4, 2015
Paul DesJardin, Director of Community Planning and Services at COG, was a guest on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on April 30. DesJardin joined The Washington Post’s...