The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) has released its 2040 population forecasts for the nine-county Delaware Valley region.

The forecasts project that the region’s population will grow to 6.26 million by 2040, an increase of more than 600,000 from 2010. But due to the recession, DVRPC forecasts slower population growth in the near term, with an increasing rate of growth between 2020 and 2030.

Between the years 2010 and 2040 Radnor Township is estimated to grow in population by 344 people, or a 1.1 percent increase.

Here is the estimated population growth in five year increments:

(2000 Population: 30,880)
2010 Population: 31,531
2015 Forecast:    31,547
2020 Forecast:    31,594
2025 Forecast:    31,703
2030 Forecast:    31,812
2035 Forecast:    31,858
2040 Forecast:    31,875

Absolute Change(2010-2040): 344
Percent Change(2010-2040): 1.1%

DVRPC last adopted population forecasts (through the year 2035) in July 2007. Since that time, the results of the 2010 Census have been released and the nation is experiencing an ongoing economic recession.

View municipal-level population forecasts elsewhere in the Philadelphia region by clicking here.