Set up the region
Pick the county the project lands in — the model auto-loads its bordering counties as the region, or you add your own. Then the project: jobs, wage, capital investment, ramp.
County · region · project
Economic Impact Group · Future Impact ModelA project lands
A project lands
one county over.
The impact doesn’t
stop at the line.
New jobs don’t respect jurisdictions — workers commute, households settle, and the tax base lands somewhere. The Future Impact Model traces that ripple across every county in the region and resolves it into what a council actually asks about: revenue, schools, housing, retail, and net fiscal position.
3,100+ U.S. countiesCensus commuting flows30+ years validated
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The problem
Most impact studies answer one community at a time — then the neighbouring county asks the same question and the whole study runs again. But the ripple was always regional. The model already routes every worker across every county. We simply stopped hiding it.
How it works
Three layers, one run.
Define the region once. The engine distributes the project’s workforce across it using real commuting flows, then you move freely between the regional picture and any single community inside it.
Read the region
Regional totals, a live choropleth of the counties, where the new workers actually live, and the winners-and-losers ledger of net fiscal impact by jurisdiction.
Roll-up · map · commute · fiscalDrill into a community
Click any county on the map and the full community report opens for it — economy, employment, demographics, housing, and the one-page summary sheet, export-ready.
Report · infographic · PDFCapabilities
Everything a regional impact study needs.
Flexible enough for a single employer. Deep enough for a county’s balance sheet, its schools, and its housing market.
Regional choropleth
Watch the impact spread across the region
One shape per county, recolored live by the metric you’re arguing. Sequential for growth; diverging for net fiscal, so winners and losers read instantly.
FewestMost
New households — hover a county for its share.
Real county geometry — Hall County, Georgia and its nine neighbours. A further 8% of the workforce commutes in from beyond this region; that impact leaks away.
Commuting flows
Follow the workers home
Census origin–destination data splits the project’s jobs across the region — impacts follow where workers actually live.
Net fiscal position
Revenue, net of the cost to serve
County and school revenue set against the real cost of serving the households that arrive — not just the headline gains.
Housing & affordability
Can the market absorb them?
New households against prices, rents and cost burden by income band — whether the local market can house the people the project brings.
Retail & sales tax
Where the new spending lands
New household income converts into retail demand by category — and into the local option sales tax that follows it.
Trajectory
Twenty years, discounted to today
Phase the project in over its ramp and read the region’s fiscal position as a net present value — the horizon a board actually decides on.
Deliverables
Council-ready in one click
Save any scenario to your secure workspace, reopen it later, and export every chart and the one-page summary as branded PNG or PDF — in EIG colors or your client’s.
Under the hood
No black box.
Established regional data, documented method, and a calculation you can walk a skeptic through line by line. It runs live in the browser — so the answer is current every time.
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A baseline for every U.S. county
Employment, earnings, population and households set the community’s starting point — the counterfactual every impact is measured against.
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Real commuting flows
Census origin–destination data distributes 100% of the project’s workforce across the region’s counties. No assumption that a job equals a local resident.
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Census-basis public finance
County and school district revenue and expenditure on a national, consistent basis — with analyst override when local ACFR figures are better.
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Households, not just jobs
Workers become households, households become residents, students, retail demand and service cost. That chain is where the fiscal answer actually comes from.
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Forward reference data
Regional projections run to 2060, so a twenty-year horizon rests on published forecasts rather than a flat-line assumption.
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Validated for three decades
A method refined and stood behind by EIG’s in-house economists for over 30 years — in front of councils, boards and bond markets.
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Ready when you areKnow what the project does
Know what the project does
before the vote.
Set up a region in a few minutes. Run it live. Walk into the meeting with numbers you can defend.