CEDS 2025 - 2029
Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
A CEDS is a plan that outlines a region's economic development needs and goals. It emerges from a continuous planning process developed with broad-based and diverse community participation that addresses the economic potential of an area. The plan identifies the region’s economic challenges and opportunities, promotes strategies to support sustainable economic development, fosters effective transportation systems, and balances resources through responsible management of growth and development.
Every five years, REDC completes a new five-year CEDS. As part of this planning process, REDC and its partners develop a regional vision and a set of goals and strategies to help guide economic development for our region. REDC most recently completed the five-year CEDS in 2025, and submitted it to the EDA on June 27, 2025. The 2025-2029 CEDS and accompanying data and reports may be by clicking the link to the right. (or something like that)
During each intermediate year during the five-years CEDS cycle, REDC publishes an update which includes new demographics, data, and project updates. The most recent update to the 2025-2029 CEDS may be found HERE. Updated reports and data are listed below.
2025-2029 CEDS RESOURCES
The following resources are either referenced in the 2025 CEDS or information we believe is useful to provide.
NH Community Profiles
Click on the name of each town below to be taken to its Community Profile from the Economic Labor Market Information Bureau.
Data and Demographics
Table A-1: Population History and Estimates (2024 U.S. Census and NH OPD, updated December 2025)
Table A-2: Population Projections ( 2022 NH OPD, updated December 2025)
Table A-3: Population – Gender and Age (2024 ACS, updated May 2026)
Table A-4: Population – Race and Ethnic Origin (2024 ACS, updated May 2026)
Table B-1: Housing Units – Census Counts and Housing Estimates (2024 ACS, updated May 2026)
Table B-4: Housing Purchase Prices – NH Counties (2024 NH Housing, updated June 2025)
Table B-5: Home Sales (2024 NH Housing, updated June 2025)
Table B-7: Foreclosures (2024 NH Housing, updated June 2025)
Table B-8: Average Monthly Rental Prices (2024 NH Housing, updated June 2025)
Table C-2: Employment and Wages (2024 NH Employment Security, updated January 2026)
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Table C-3: Employers, Employment, and Wages (NH Employment Security, updated May 2026)
Table C-4: Current and Historic Unemployment Data (2025 NH Employment Security, updated May 2026)
Table C-5: Employment and Weekly Wages (2024 NH Employment Security, updated June 2026)
Table D-1: Land Use Area by Town (Rockingham Planning Commission, updated June 2025)
Table D-2: Land Use Distribution by Town (Rockingham Planning Commission, updated June 2025)​
Table F-2: Education Attainment (2024 ACS, updated June 2026)
Table F-3: Per Capita Income (2024 ACS, updated May 2026)
Table F-4: Poverty Rates (2024 ACS, updated May 2026)
2025 Visioning Sessions
Shaping a 5-year vision and plan for Southeastern NH covering transportation and infrastructure, the environment, culture and recreation, workforce and economy, housing, and more.
As part of the 2025 planning process, REDC held three public visioning sessions throughout its region for the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS). The purpose of these sessions was to gather public and municipal input on the goals, opportunities, and weaknesses of our region and to come up with priorities to be addressed from an economic development perspective over the next five years. REDC and the CEDS Steering Committee used the information gathered at these events to update and refine the goals and objectives of the CEDS.
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Thank you to all who participated in these visioning sessions!