How to fix local demand in the negative?

[MrMeowPuss]

So my city has had no local demand for commercial for quite some time now. My unemployment is decent (according the game), my education is okay (but could be better in terms of elementary) and taxes are around 5-7%.

Does anyone know how to improve/increase local demand? Is it related to my production?

 

[VentureIndustries]

I’ve only ever see this problem due to over-zoning. Unfortunately, the only way I got demand to come back was to demolish and de-zone a lot of the existing commercial zones in my city, wait a bit (demand coming back will be slow at first, then a lot of it all at once), then demand will go back to normal.

 

[Arararamba]

You have unoccupied residentials witch could be a hint why you don't have commercial demand. If you have mixed use buildings that don't have residents then this building will count as unoccupied commercial. It's a bug.

When I hade this problem, I bulldozed all my mixed use buildings that haven't residents or companies. Then demand came back and I zoned/plopped slowly.

 

[pdx_peanut]

It's worth noting that if you have 'over-zoned' those empty cells/buildings do get filled up slowly as required, but your demand bar won't go up until they are all filled, as there is no demand for you to zone more when there is already some available.

In this instance, it's a waiting game - for them to fill up - and remember, not having demand does not mean you're not doing the right thing, it just means there's no need to zone right now.

 

[TOMMIVS]

The commercial demand is not more related to supply and demand of goods, but is only a function of population. And this function is capped at 100k people. Once past that point, no more commercial demand can be generated no matter what you do.