This bulletin presents the findings of a two-year study of people, jobs and land in the New Jersey-New York-Connecticut Metropolitan Region. It reports past trends and current facts about a great many aspects of the region. It includes new forecasts of population and of employment for the region’s 22 counties. It is based primarily upon work undertaken in 1955 and 1956 at the request of the bi-state Metropolitan Rapid Transit Survey.
This is the 87th bulletin of a series published by the Regional Plan Association over the last three decades on a wide variety of subjects. In addition to updating earlier bulletins on population and employment, it presents detailed information not available previously.
For example, inside the back cover there is a map in full color showing how land is now being used in all parts of the region. Sections of the bulletin deal with such characteristics of the region’s population as the proportion of persons of different ages, sexes and ethnic backgrounds. Facts about migration to and from the region are given. And the bulletin presents new data about recent county employment levels, with trends for each major group of commercial and industrial activities separately analyzed.
The bulletin has three main sections:
The Summary reviews the major findings briefly and presents them mostly in maps and charts for quick reading.
The two following chapters discuss the findings in detail and explain how we arrived at them.
The last chapter spotlights each of the region’s 22 counties in turn, highlighting the pertinent statistics and suggesting the main forces at work which are likely to influence each county’s future.