E-UPDATE

Mar 2022
Hampton Roads Economic Monthly
After many delays and much fanfare, the U.S. Census Bureau has begun releasing their ever-important counts for 2020. Beginning in 1790, every ten years the Constitution requires that a census counting the population of the country be completed so the House of Representatives can be apportioned appropriately across the states. This is known as the Decennial Census, and the first wave of those results – apportionment and redistricting – were made available mid to late 2021. This data provided general information about resident and overseas population numbers, as well as voting age, Hispanic or Latino origin, housing occupancy and group occupancy status.

More from the American Community Survey


In addition to the well-known enumeration of the entire population it performs every decade, the US Census Bureau continuously surveys a portion of the nation’s residents via the American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS covers a variety of topics—employment, education, living arrangements, health, housing, income, and ethnicity—including the timing, mode, etc. of the journey to work.

On Friday, April 1, 2022, the 1950 census was made available to the public after a 72-year waiting period. The paper census forms that were filled out in April 1950 are available for viewing for the first time – digitized and online. This once-in-a-decade release of census information is of particular interest to genealogists and family historians who are tracing their ancestors.

After two long years, HRPDC water resources and planning staff were able to attend the 32nd annual Environment Virginia Symposium, in person! The Symposium is held at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, VA. Hosted by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, other state agencies, and sponsors, the Symposium brings together local planners and stormwater managers, environmental non-governmental organizations, consultants, academics, scientists, and directors and employees of state environmental agencies to discuss relevant environmental topics impacting the Commonwealth.

The Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) was established under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) in 2012. The TAP Program is now called the Transportation Alternatives (TA) Set-Aside Program and is funded through the Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) Program. The current Federal infrastructure program passed in November 2021 is the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). 

Over the course of two brisk but sunny days last month volunteers hit the streets, sloshed through wetlands, combed shorelines, and spruced up parks as part of the Hampton Roads Great American Cleanup. The annual two-day community cleanup is coordinated by askHRgreen.org and clean community coordinators from the 17 cities and counties in Hampton Roads.

Each month, HRTPO staff will highlight a project that is currently being implemented within the Hampton Roads region. This month, staff is highlighting the St. Paul’s Infrastructure Improvements Phase 1 project which will create new roadway infrastructure in the St. Paul’s Transformation Area in Norfolk. 

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