CULTURE
Retention Retention is the number of people that moved into an area minus the number of people that left the area. Drawing new people into an area generates a diverse workforce. Retaining and acquiring young workers increases the number of potential entrepreneurs in a community. This graph compares the group that was between15 and 24 years old in 2000 with the group that is 25 to 34 in 2010. A higher number in 2010 means that there is a net migration of young workers into a community.
Population of Adults Ages:
15-24 in the year 2000
25-35 in 2010
Grand Rapids is below average in retaining young workers. It is one of two cities that had fewer 25-34 year-olds than the comparable cohort 10 years earlier.
Louisville Kentucky
Albany New York
Geo: MSA Source: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview
Iowa
Des Moines
Arkansas
Little Rock
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Kentucky
Louisville
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Alabama
Huntsville
Greensboro
North Carolina
Albany
6
New York
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