As the regional census data affiliate, SPC supplies accurate, comprehensive data to local governments, private industries, and community organizations. We strive to provide the highest level of technical support and expertise to SPC member governments in application development, needs assessments, implementation plans, and regional partnerships. SPC’s data are especially vital to local governments in implementing or revising their comprehensive plans, establishing inventories within public works, and identifying emergency or homeland security scenarios.

SPC also develops and maintains demographic forecasts through the year 2035 for municipalities and the region to use in individual project planning and design. The current forecast, called Cycle 8, has total population, households, and work-place employment for the years 2005-2035 by municipality and, for those who need an even finer geography, by sub-municipality entities called traffic analysis zones. So, depending upon the geographic level needed, SPC can provide small-area forecasts (traffic analysis zones) up to large-area forecasts (counties and the region).

In addition, SPC's GIS-based information helps make the region's transportation-including highways, railways, bridges, waterways, tunnels, airports and others-more efficient and effective by analyzing multiple scenarios in the planning process. Finally, private and public economic development groups have used GIS to aid site selection activities for key projects within counties, and along key investment corridors.

SPC's GIS efforts power much of Xplorion in the lobby of the Regional Enterprise Tower.