A recent presentation to Met Council on updating the regional long-range population forecasts:
https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetin ... t-PPT.aspx
Earlier this year, Met Council released revised forecasts for 2030 and 2040, but they omitted households from the projections, only forecasting population and jobs.
https://metrocouncil.org/Data-and-Maps/ ... 2023).aspx The complete revised forecast including household growth projections is supposed to be released later this month.
I had to go pretty far upthread to find the last time we talked about long-range projections and was reminded that Met Council basically only touches these every 10 years. Anyways, here's a post where I quoted a couple of the initial estimates from Met Council which were subsequently revised downward a couple of times, with the new estimates below. Unfortunately none of the old links to Met Council's previous forecasts work, so I just have those 5 cities as a comparison.
Met Council's
preliminary 2040 estimates are out:
http://www.metrocouncil.org/News-Events ... ea-gr.aspx (broken)
Mpls: 488k
St Paul: 338k
Bloomington: 113k
Edina: 71k (wowzers! I guess Southdale-adjacent high rise apartment construction is only getting started)
St Louis Park: 68k
Newly revised estimates for those same cities:
Mpls: 464,900
St Paul: 334,700
Bloomington: 93,600
Edina: 53,300 (err...that's a pretty huge decrease)
St Louis Park: 54,500
Following up on my posts from last year and earlier, numbers have been revised down even lower in these newly updated 2040 estimates:
Mpls: 449,400
St Paul: 334,100
Bloomington: 91,800
Edina: 50,800
St Louis Park: 51,300
Newly released 2040 estimates for those same 5 cities (quoted posts are of estimates released c. 2013-15):
Mpls: 485,000 (back to the original high estimate prior to the downward revisions)
St Paul: 334,100 (no change to the 2015 estimate)
Bloomington: 95,900
Edina: 63,600
St Louis Park: 55,070