The Young and the Restless In A Knowledge Economy

A new report, The Young and the Restless In A Knowledge Economy by CEOs for Cities, looks at how job growth, young adults, and city centers are interrelated. First the correlation between young adults and city centers:

The 1990s: In this decade, city downtowns start to become cool for young adults to move to – three times cooler. In 1990, 25-34 year-olds were about 10% ‘more likely than other residents in the metropolitan area to live within 3 miles of the region’s center’. By 2000, they were more than 30% ‘more likely than other metropolitan residents to live in the city center. In fact, in this decade, the likelihood that young adults would choose to live in a city center increased in every one of the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas.” There’s already a growing body of such research on this website here.

Why the downtown shift? This website is a collection of hundreds of those answers.
So what? It means a lot of job growth. Details in the next article.

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