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CITY OF GREENSBORO COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CONDITIONS & TRENDS

Conditions & Trends Report

About this Report

This Conditions & Trends Report, a companion to the Data Book, is intended to inform public discussions during the
planning process and aid decision makers in setting policy regarding the future growth of the City of Greensboro. The Data
Book provides information essential to the Comprehensive Plan Update in areas such as population, housing, infrastructure,
land use, and transportation. Analysis of the data includes comparisons with other cities, the state, and the nation, and
presents the condition of Greensboro as a whole in key measures such as population growth, job creation, and
environmental quality. This report focuses on how certain key measures differ within the City, and presents state, national,
and global trends likely to affect Greensboro in the future. The report has been prepared in two parts:
Conditions

The Conditions section provides a finer grain examination of key social, economic, and demographic aspects of the City of
Greensboro geographically in order to highlight and compare different areas by census tracts, which loosely conform to
neighborhood boundaries. Census tracts are created and maintained by the US Census Bureau and offer the most reliable
and consistent geography to examine data within the City. (Greensboro contains all or a portion of 119 census tracts, but
they do not conform exactly to the boundaries of the city limits.) This document provides a snapshot of Greensboro based
on the most recent data available from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and city data sources. In
particular, the Conditions section looks more deeply at:

Population Median Income & Poverty
Age Composition Housing Affordability
Race & Ethnicity Health & Wellness
Land Use & Development Infrastructure
Employment & Unemployment Public Safety
Trends

The Trends section looks at the influence of international, national, state, and local trends that will shape Greensboro in
some way over the next two decades. Each trend is summarized, the likely impact to Greensboro is discussed, and the
impact on issues of equity and sustainability is noted. The trends discussed in this report, listed below, are not intended to
represent an exhaustive compilation of all factors that are anticipated to affect Greensboro:

Placemaking: Cities for People Sustainability & Resilience
Changing Demand for Housing Choices The Disparity Gap & the Shrinking Middle Class
The Impact of Aging Infrastructure Demographics: The Changing Face of America
Transportation: The New Mobility Economic Trends & the Future of Manufacturing
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Technology in the 21 Century The Transformation of Retail
Sources
Sources and references are provided in the Appendix. Interactive maps and links to related sections of the Data Book are
provided throughout the document.

DRAFT -3- March 15, 2018