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Pass New York City? Never. To pass NYC in 2020, Houston has to gain nearly 900,000 residents a year for the next 7 years, assuming NYC does not grow. Also, NYC has had larger numerical growth than Houston since 2010.
It isn't a "secret" per se. More like, no one is paying attention to Houston.
As for passing New York, it could happen. Houston has 2.16 million people inside its city limits, and has a population density of 3,623 persons per square mile. I say it could happen. New York isn't making any more islands, and Houston has plenty of room to grow. NYC has 303 square miles of land. Houston has over 1500 square miles of land.
"City limits" is kind of a useless measure due to the arbitrary nature of city boundaries. Metro area is the only measure that is useful for population comparison purposes. City limits mainly come up due to statistical elements that are determined by those limits, like the murder rate inside of a particular city's boundaries.
It's going to take a bit more than 7 years for HTown to overtake NYC.
However, HTown is growing a lot faster than NYC and has twice the available landmass in what is considered the Metropolitian area (6k+ sq miles for NYC and over 12K sq miles for HTown)
What is interesting is that the 3 fastest growing Metro areas in the top 25 are all in Texas.
Houston at 4.33%
DFW at 4.28
San Antonio at 4.28
It isn't a "secret" per se. More like, no one is paying attention to Houston.
As for passing New York, it could happen. Houston has 2.16 million people inside its city limits, and has a population density of 3,623 persons per square mile. I say it could happen. New York isn't making any more islands, and Houston has plenty of room to grow. NYC has 303 square miles of land. Houston has over 1500 square miles of land.
Houston is between 599-656 square miles, depending on your source - not 1,500.
The eight county metro area is just under 8,800 square miles, which is larger than New Jersey.
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So much in Houston
Baseball, soccer, the Space Program, the energy industry(one reason I've applied for jobs located in Houston), The Galleria(with an ice skating rink inside), the Astrodome.
Houston also gave us George Foreman, Phylicia Rashad, Dan Rather, Dennis Quaid, Mary Kay Ash(founder of Mary Kay), Joel Osteen, Renee Zellweger, Jennifer Garner.
Astrodome?? There is a larger venue now. Check back in a few years with regards to availability of the Dome.
Houston will not surpass New York in importance, even if it gets a higher population. NYC is one of only 2 Alpha++ global cities in the world. Houston will never have the economic or cultural significance.
What is interesting is that the 3 fastest growing Metro areas in the top 25 are all in Texas.
Governor Perry!
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