Demographic Composition of North Central Wisconsin. It

¶ … demographic composition of North Central Wisconsin. It compares North Central Wisconsin with the United States 10, 20, 50, 100 years ago. Wisconsin has been losing young people that are college age. One of the reasons for this is that Wisconsin has a very large Baby Boom consensus with many of the people approximately age 56. NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN Baby Boomers must love North Central Wisconsin, because most of this state consists of baby boomers. Another fact is that this state has one of the highest female labor forces in the United States.

There are many facts about North Central Wisconsin that may concern the people of Wisconsin when they compare their state with the census of the United States. Some of the counties of this area are Clark, Iron, Lincoln, Marathon, Oneida, Portage, Price, Taylor, Vilas, and Wood counties. The demographics of North Central Wisconsin compared to the United States shows that this area of Wisconsin is rapidly growing with baby boomers.

There are about 430,000 people living in this area compared to 5,401,906 people in the state of Wisconsin and 284,796.887 people in the nation (quickfacts 1). "In the last 100 years, the period from 1900 to 2000, this area of the state has increased its population 129%, growing from 199,000 to 448,000 people. The state of Wisconsin has grown at the rate of 159%. The United States has grown from 179,323,175 in 1960 to 284,796,887 in 2001. North Central Wisconsin has grown faster than the state beginning in 1960 with a rate of 39%, while the state grew at 35.7% increase.

The problem is that the state is aging rapidly. In 1990, the average age of the state was 36.2 with the state's average age at 35.5. In 2000, the North Central area had increased their age to 37.8. The state's average age was 36.8. It is predicted that in 2020 the average age of a person will be 41.5 with the average age in the state of Wisconsin being 39.9 according to the U.S. Bureau of Census and WI Department of Administration. However, there in many of the counties of North Central Wisconsin the average age will be 51.9.

If each year the age increases without more young people eventually there will be no people in the region of North Central Wisconsin. One of the reasons for this is that the number of births has decreased between 1951 and 1973. There were 7,281 births in 1951 and only 5,100 in 1973. The births in the United States dropped but not like the area of North Central Wisconsin going from 3,823,000 to 3,137,000. One of the reasons for this is that the number of young people turning 18 has dropped.

Often young people that attend college in an area do not settle in that area. This is definitely true for North Central Wisconsin. It is predicted that the number of people age sixty-five will rapidly increase from 2002 to 2016 from approximately 3,900 to 6,300. This will open up approximately 5,500 jobs each year. The problem is that if people do not receive the training to take the place of these seniors the companies will move their businesses. Another serious problem is that there will need to be more health care workers.

This will be a problem because the trained health care workers are leaving to different areas. "It is even more alarming that we see the same thing occurring in northcentral Wisconsin despite the fact that we have several colleges in the area, including a state universities as well as two-year university campuses" (3). Even though the rate of employment.