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174

Language

English

Description

Indiana at a Glance: County Trends, 2025 Edition provides an overview of macro socioeconomic and demographic trends based on county-level data in ten-year periods in Indiana, the upper Midwest region, and the nation. Analyzing data primarily from 2013 through 2023, this book presents information that contextualizes the design and implementation of specific policies enacted by elected officials and community leaders, and reveals the impact these initiatives have on the public.

Inspired, in part, by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural America at a Glance reports, as well as the author’s more than twenty years of work in the field, this study makes use of gap analysis to glean valuable insights into how specific socioeconomic patterns relate to larger regional or national trends. It also offers a fuller picture of community economic development planning, allowing community stakeholders to better discern unique opportunities and challenges from macro socioeconomic and demographic noise.

Accessible to scholars and nonacademics alike, Indiana at a Glance is meant to assist community leaders and residents who wish to have a firmer grasp of the socioeconomic and demographic landscape of their communities as they attempt to plan, design, implement, and evaluate their policies and initiatives or simply better understand their communities. The content and analysis supplied in this book will be updated every five years to ensure the most current data is available in order to align with the temporal “horizon” under which community economic development practitioners and policymakers frequently operate.

ISBN

9781626712003

Publication Date

Fall 10-15-2025

Publisher

Purdue University Press

City

West Lafayette

Keywords

socioeconomic trends, demographic trends, Indiana counties, Indiana, upper Midwest, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, elected officials, community leaders, public policy, gap analysis, economic development, community development, public planning, The American Community Survey, United States Department of Agriculture Rural America at a Glance, United States Department of Agriculture, U.S. Census Bureau, Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Rural-Urban Continuum Code, Purdue Center for Regional Development, Economic Development Administration, poverty rate, rural areas, metro areas, labor market trends, population change, race, ethnicity, commuting, educational attainment, college enrollment, entrepreneurship, human capital, income volatility, access to wealth, affordable housing, broadband availability

Disciplines

Economics | History | Other Political Science | United States History

Comments

Open access publication of this title is supported by Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies.

Indiana at a Glance: County Trends, 2025 Edition

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