Every four years in conjunction with the development of the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) the CMRPC develops socio-economic projections for each community in the region which include population and employment projections. The current set of projections were developed in cooperation with MassDOT and the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute (UMDI), the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and the other Regional Planning Agencies (RPAs) and Metropolitan Planning Organization's (MPOs) in Massachusetts. To augment the MassDOT projections and aid in the development of planning scenarios the CMRPC has developed a second set of projections that envision are return closer to prior growth following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

To view the most recent projections and methods used please click the following link to visit the 2050Connections hub site: https://cmrpc-transportation-cmrpc.hub.arcgis.com/pages/socio-economic-projections