Factors assessed include:

• Demographic change
• Income distribution
• Housing stock
• Affordability across a broad range of households

The MSB Planning Department undertook this statistical socioeconomic analysis in house as a means to determine the current cost of housing and who can afford to live here. It should be noted that the assessment also provides a potential future scenario if current trends continue. These trends are based upon past performance and extended into the future to project possible outcomes. What this means, is if current trends remain the same then the forecast presented may be true.