Austin Census Figures Reflect Rapid Growth (Round Rock, West: property tax, rated, property)

[french paris]

U.S. Census figures show that Austin grew by 20 percent in the last decade, and minority populations account for much of that growth.

Austin Census Figures Reflect Rapid Growth

[CptnRn]

If Austin grew by only 20% in the last decade, that means the growth rate has slowed down. Which in my opinion is not a bad thing, give us a chance to keep up with the growth.

[spelrod]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

If Austin grew by only 20% in the last decade, that means the growth rate has slowed down. Which in my opinion is not a bad thing, give us a chance to keep up with the growth.

Has the growth rate of the metro slowed proportionately or are people just sprawling outside of the city limits? If WilCo grew by 69% like the About.com article says then it may be the latter.

[CptnRn]

The 20% growth rate discussed in the article is just Austin alone. As are the figures in the chart I posted above.

If the population of Austin in that chart was 656,562 in 2000 and the census for 2010 put it at 790,390, that is a growth rate of 20.38%. Almost half of what it was in the previous decade, 39.10%.

Yes there is growth going in outside of the Austin City Limits, as there always has been.

[atxcio]

As a city gets large enough, there is no way it can keep growing by 40%. It can add the same amount of residents (or more) than it did in the past, and still experience fast growth... but I doubt we'll keep seeing the doubling of population per decade that has happened in the past.

Fitting another 750K inside the city limits would be impossible... even with annexation it would be difficult -- there isn't much left to annex to the north or NW without hitting Round Rock or CP. To the west, Austin will be annexing all the high-value places like Riverplace, Steiner, etc. Even unincorporated Travis county near Westake will probably go to Austin (although they'd probably prefer to get annexed by Westlake Hills, there just isn't the infrastructure there to support it). However, the population of the west side is just not that dense, and it won't change. So it won't represent a big population increase when Austin annexes it (although it will add a lot to their property tax rolls!).

East of Austin, if it booms around the 130 and the F1 track, might represent a big population in the future that could be annexed by Austin.