Central Texas cities (inc. Austin) slightly cool down, but our metro area was still tops. Ergo, our growth is concentrated outside of city limits of both core and suburban cities, thus adding more urban area.
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With an estimated population of 68,918, Cedar Park was the fifth fastest-growing city in Texas behind Conroe (No. 1), Frisco (No. 2), McKinney (No. 3) and Georgetown (No. 5). Round Rock (No. 18) and Pflugerville (No. 23) also made the top 25.
This is the first year in the past half-decade that a Central Texas city has not topped the list of fastest-growing U.S. cities. Prior to Georgetown’s top ranking in 2016, San Marcos was the country’s fastest-growing city for three years in a row.
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https://communityimpact.com/austin/l...tionally-2016/
Although keep in mind that that analysis is using the single datapoint of 2015-2016 and takes the perspective that percentage increase is the only relevant factor. Well, that's not true. Numeric increase taken in the context of annexation policy (and the ability and political will to exercise this policy area) is also important, because that more accurately illustrates whether the core city itself is trying to densify itself in the process of population growth irrespective of whether the broader region might be growing faster.
Taking the broader view, the Austin MSA has grown by 19.82% since 2010, Austin city proper by 19.92%. What I'd say counts as the list of large Austin "boomburbs" (Georgetown, Round Rock, Pflugerville, Kyle, San Marcos, Leander, and Cedar Park) grew from a sum of 342,591 to 459,996, a growth of 117,405 people at a rate of 34.27%. Austin proper grew from 790,390 to 947,890, adding 157,500. That's a smaller rate, yes, but we still added more people than the boomburbs put together, and in the context (as stated by the ATX above) of limited annexation by the city and a great deal by the boomburbs.
The metro area as a whole grew by 19.82%, an even slower than the cities and major suburbs, from 1,716,289 to 2,056,405 (a numeric increase of 340,116).
The balance of the metro area excepting the city of Austin and the large boomburbs grew to 648,519 from 583,308, a numeric increase of 65,211 and a growth rate of 11.17%. However, much of the population growth that would have been included in this category was likely annexed by one of the boomburbs who all have had fairly active annexation policies since 2010.
And... San Antonio city proper is growing faster than ours, but with significant annexation. Even still San Antonio's core has some of most rapid densification in development in Central Texas, even though it isn't appreciated by some on the Austin forum because it isn't as dominated by skyscrapers.
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Austin’s population increased by 17,738 people from July 2015 to July 2016, the ninth-largest numeric increase of any U.S. city. The 11th most-populated U.S. city now has 947,890 residents, according to the U.S. Census estimates.
Central Texas no longer home to nation’s fastest-growing city
San Antonio grew the most of any Texas city to make the list, growing 1.7 percent to 1,492,510 people. Dallas (9) grew by 1.6 percent, to 1,317,929 residents, and Houston (4) now has 2,303,482 people, growing by less than a half-percent.
Austin’s growth rate dipped to its lowest level in the past five years.
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https://communityimpact.com/austin/c...e-than-austin/
Here's some more good coverage:
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05...rowing-cities/