Planning Resources
Planning is an essential part for any successful agency. Here, we offer some helpful links and information to assist your agency during your planning processes.
Planning Links
The Economic Profile System (EPS) is designed to allow users to produce detailed socioeconomic profiles automatically and efficiently at a variety of geographic scales using Miscrosoft Excel software. Profiles contain tables and figures that illustrate long-term trends in population; employment and person income by industry; average earnings; business development; retirement and other non-labor income; commuting patterns; agriculture; and earnings by industry. This EPS system was developed and produced by the independent, nonprofit research group - Headwaters Economics. Their mission is to improve community development and land management decisions in the West. While the focus of the EPS system is on the Western states, we feel there is relevant potential application for other areas of the United States as well.