HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > United States > Texas & Southcentral > Austin


Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #1  
Old Posted Jun 3, 2009, 7:48 PM
ATXboom ATXboom is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,819
Austin will be 5th fastest growing U.S. metro in coming years

Found this link in Bizjournals. Some interesting notes in this report... they believe Austin and San Antonio will be equal in metro population in 2025. DFW will have nearly 1M more people than the Houston metro area.

http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin...l?surround=lfn

Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 11:18am CDT\
Report: Austin will be 5th fastest growing U.S. metro in coming years
Austin Business Journal

The population of the Austin metro area will grow to more than 2.7 million by the year 2025, according to an analysis of government data by bizjournals.

The projected growth rate of Austin and its suburbs ranks 5th among 250 U.S. metropolitan areas studied in the report.

Bizjournals forecasts that the Austin-Round Rock area will grow nearly 87 percent from its 2005 estimated population of nearly 1.5 million to a 2025 projected population of 2.7 million, an increase of nearly 1.3 million residents.

Austin will see the most growth of any Texas city, according to the bizjournals analysis. The McAllen-Edinburg area will be the second-fastest growing metro in Texas, ranking 22nd on the list with an estimated 56 percent growth in population.

Among the major Texas cities:


Dallas/Fort Worth ranks 26th with a projected 50 percent population increase to 8.8 million people;
Houston ranks 27th with a projected 48 percent population increase to 7.9 million people;
San Antonio ranks 40th with a projected 41 percent population increase to 2.7 million people.

Click here for the full bizjournals growth report on U.S. metro-area growth.

And click here for a chart showing the breakdown across metros.

Last edited by ATXboom; Jun 3, 2009 at 8:07 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #2  
Old Posted Jun 3, 2009, 9:50 PM
priller's Avatar
priller priller is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,979
That's kind of frightening.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #3  
Old Posted Jun 3, 2009, 11:16 PM
Saddle Man Saddle Man is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,149
.

Last edited by Saddle Man; Jul 25, 2009 at 11:11 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4  
Old Posted Jun 3, 2009, 11:19 PM
KevinFromTexas's Avatar
KevinFromTexas KevinFromTexas is offline
Meh
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: there and back again
Posts: 57,324
Austin has historically doubled in population every 20 years. So it's not that far fetched.
__________________
Donate to Donald Trump's campaign today!

Thou shall not indict
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #5  
Old Posted Jun 3, 2009, 11:51 PM
Mdlx's Avatar
Mdlx Mdlx is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 53
I predict rain water collection systems will become the next "got to have item" for homes sold in central texas in the upcoming decades.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #6  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 3:45 AM
texastarkus texastarkus is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Far Sub-Urban San Antonio
Posts: 443
What's funny about this whole article is by 2025, Austin will be the third largest metro area in Texas.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #7  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 4:15 AM
sirkingwilliam's Avatar
sirkingwilliam sirkingwilliam is online now
Loving SA 365 days a year
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: San Antonio
Posts: 3,890
Come on, you don't actually believe that stuff do you? The methodology is just stupid. The guys at CD are tearing this apart so badly it's funny.

I pointed out at another forum just how ludicrous this stuff is. By the same methodology LV in 1978 was to only be around 450,000 by 1995. It was almost 1.1 million in 1995.

SA is predicted to have 2,105,000 by 2010 but actually with current growth it'll be 2,130,000 by 2010 if not more.

Again, believe what you want but be smart I guess.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 4:39 AM
PartyLine PartyLine is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 506
Don't put down SA I live in Austin but like both cities
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #9  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 3:01 PM
ATXboom ATXboom is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,819
Regardless of methodology isn't this projection directly inline with every other forecast that has been released. Envision central tx forecast, the city's [Angelou], etc... In fact the city's forecast from a few years ago had a low estimate of 2.6M and a high of 3.2M by 2025. If you follow histroical growth rate increase over the past 60 years and project it another 15 it should equate to 2.8M. That spans all of the boom/bust valley's and peaks. I don't think its far fetched at all.... just another view point that confirms the predicted range. In fact isn't this study really just the US census prediction repackaged. Nothing new. Lets see what 2010 census tells us... that will be the best analysis of population done to date.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #10  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 3:45 PM
alexjon's Avatar
alexjon alexjon is offline
Bears of antiquity
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Downtown/First Hill, Seattle, WA
Posts: 8,340
4 million in the Seattle metro, eh? And only 55 miles of light rail, 20 miles of streetcar and 70 miles of commuter rail? For 4 million in the metro? Eff that, time to think about more rail.
__________________
"The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion." -- George Washington & John Adams in a diplomatic message to Malta
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #11  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 3:56 PM
nixcity's Avatar
nixcity nixcity is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Austin, TX.
Posts: 768
^Yea, and at the rate Austin is moving we wont even have our commuter rail line open by then,ha ha. Rail should be a, if not the, top issue priority in our city/region to make this prediction a reality outside of just suburban sprawl hell.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #12  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 6:19 PM
NThomas's Avatar
NThomas NThomas is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Posts: 204
It also projects the Austin metro will surpass the San Antonio metro by 100k people in just 15 years. Between the two, they'll be the size of DFW today. I imagine by then, it'll be hard to tell where one starts and the other begins.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #13  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 6:37 PM
DruidCity's Avatar
DruidCity DruidCity is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tuscaloosa,AL
Posts: 3,381
Quote:
I imagine by then, it'll be hard to tell where one starts and the other begins.
Case in point, a recent prediction by a Comal County Judge:
http://herald-zeitung.com/story.lass...2ae7e4b3e5cbb7

Quote:
“We have 50,000 residents in New Braunfels right now and are expecting another 100,000 to move here over the next 20 years,”
__________________
Also representing San Marcos,TX and Baldwin Co, AL
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #14  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 8:59 PM
M1EK's Avatar
M1EK M1EK is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,194
Projecting a return to cancerous suburban and exurban sprawl after the two conditions that stoked it have ended (cheap gas and cheap money) is kind of ridiculous.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #15  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 10:51 PM
Saddle Man Saddle Man is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,149
.

Last edited by Saddle Man; Jul 25, 2009 at 11:11 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #16  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 11:03 PM
NThomas's Avatar
NThomas NThomas is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Posts: 204
Quote:
Originally Posted by M1EK View Post
Projecting a return to cancerous suburban and exurban sprawl after the two conditions that stoked it have ended (cheap gas and cheap money) is kind of ridiculous.
So we'll see more people living in TODs? Or limited or slow growth in Central Texas?
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #17  
Old Posted Jun 5, 2009, 12:39 AM
PartyLine PartyLine is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 506
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mdlx View Post
I predict rain water collection systems will become the next "got to have item" for homes sold in central texas in the upcoming decades.


What does that have to do with this post??
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #18  
Old Posted Jun 5, 2009, 12:48 AM
austin242 austin242 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Austin
Posts: 591
That is exactly what I was thinking. It gave a giggle tho.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #19  
Old Posted Jun 5, 2009, 12:50 AM
KevinFromTexas's Avatar
KevinFromTexas KevinFromTexas is offline
Meh
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: there and back again
Posts: 57,324
Two words: Water shortage.
__________________
Donate to Donald Trump's campaign today!

Thou shall not indict
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20  
Old Posted Jun 5, 2009, 4:20 AM
PartyLine PartyLine is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 506
Ahh lol
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > United States > Texas & Southcentral > Austin
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 9:27 PM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.