Panel Preview: 2025 Southern California Demographics Workshop
Dramatic demographic changes are reshaping age groups in Southern California.
Workers with immigrant roots—essential to fortify businesses, health care services, and critical housing construction—are becoming a less reliable source of growth. As the region’s population ages, the region will have fewer children to take on key adult roles. Looking to the future, the fundamental interdependence among all segments of the regional community is becoming more apparent.
Register to attend the 2025 Southern California Demographic Workshop, “Revisiting the Intergenerational Contract,” to learn more about how groups in society rely on one another across generations and between lifecycle stages.
2025 Southern California Demographic Workshop Program
Demographic Check-Up: This annual panel shares and interprets the latest data and insights on the region and state’s demographics. The California Department of Finance will present the latest long-term demographic projections for California and its counties. SCAG will also report on the recently released 2024 American Community Survey demographic and socioeconomic indicators for the region.
Panel – Lifecycle Sharing: A Timeless Social Contract: Traditionally, young people benefit from their families’ and society’s investments in their future productivity, older people live off savings and pensions they’ve previously accrued, and the middle life stages feature the highest productivity. The benefits shared from generation to generation reflect a longstanding, shared understanding of how to allocate resources across the human life cycle. Panelists will discuss the concept of lifecycle sharing, specifically the United Nations-supported National Transfer Accounts project.
Panel – The Role of Immigration in Southern California’s Workforce: The current federal and global environments—as well as declining global population growth—pose severe challenges for intergenerational economic and community integration in a region so composed. Panelists will bring perspectives from various disciplines, practices, and economic sectors to understand the present challenge and available responses to strengthen lifecycle sharing despite these headwinds.
Keynote Address – Dowell Myers, Ph.D.: Read more about the keynote address at SCAG News.
Register today for SCAG’s 2025 Southern California Demographic Workshop to gather with local leaders, elected officials, and regional demographic experts to discuss planning policy that responds to changing trends.