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Old 10-10-2017, 01:55 PM
 
Location: Unknown
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Texas already has approx 30 million residence, so another 10- 20 million isn't out of the question. Preferably I would like to have more modest growth because some cities say Austin needs to vastly improve it's infrastructure before it can take on growth the way Houston & DFW can.
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Old 10-10-2017, 01:57 PM
 
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Originally Posted by rynetwo View Post
By 2040

California
48,286,484

Texas
40,698,640

Florida
28,235,139

New York
21,380,610

As you can see Texas will be catching up to California and both states are pulling away from the rest of the nation.

National Population Projections | Demographics
Yep, same can be said now, Texas is in the half way zone between California and Florida.
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Old 10-10-2017, 04:36 PM
 
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Do ya do ya?
My gawd, I hope not!
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Old 10-11-2017, 06:04 AM
 
Location: USA
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Texas already has approx 30 million residence, so another 10- 20 million isn't out of the question. Preferably I would like to have more modest growth because some cities say Austin needs to vastly improve it's infrastructure before it can take on growth the way Houston & DFW can.
Austin still needs to pass San Antonio before it tries to be the size of Dallas or Houston. It has about 400,000 less people at this time.
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Old 10-11-2017, 06:37 PM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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Austin still needs to pass San Antonio before it tries to be the size of Dallas or Houston. It has about 400,000 less people at this time.
Economically, it already has. Population wise, I'd imagine the MSA population would surpass it first. City-proper just depends on how much density comes in the next 20-30 years.
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Old 10-11-2017, 09:32 PM
 
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Economically, it already has. Population wise, I'd imagine the MSA population would surpass it first. City-proper just depends on how much density comes in the next 20-30 years.
I think Austin has always been ahead of San Antonio economically and it doesn't need to catch up to it in any economic or developmental aspect.

Given the rapid growth of the Austin NSA how long do you think it will take for it to pass San Antonio? I'm thinking about 10 or 15 years. It'll be similar to how Dallas is compared to San Antonio; city proper is more populated, yes, but the MSA Is a different animal.
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Old 10-12-2017, 07:25 AM
 
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Economically, it already has. Population wise, I'd imagine the MSA population would surpass it first. City-proper just depends on how much density comes in the next 20-30 years.
Austin is slightly ahead of San Antonio economically, but it is also pulling away year by year. It all depends on the industries. Manufacturing heavy metros that are smaller than both Austin and San Antonio have larger economies like Indy and Columbus.

Austin
2015 GDP 119,949,000,000
Change since 2010 +32,476,000,000

San Antonio
2015 GDP 108,879,000,000
Change since 2010 +27,157,000,000

Austin city proper is not going to catch up to San Antonio anytime soon since it is not growing as fast.

San Antonio
2016 population 1,492,510
+165,103 since 2010

Austin
2016 population 947,890
+157,500 since 2010


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I think Austin has always been ahead of San Antonio economically and it doesn't need to catch up to it in any economic or developmental aspect.

Given the rapid growth of the Austin NSA how long do you think it will take for it to pass San Antonio? I'm thinking about 10 or 15 years. It'll be similar to how Dallas is compared to San Antonio; city proper is more populated, yes, but the MSA Is a different animal.
The metro areas are both rapidly growing but Austin will catch up to San Antonio in 30-35 years if the current trends continue.

San Antonio
2016 Metro population 2,429,609
+287,101 since 2010

Austin
2016 Metro population 2,056,405
+340,116 since 2010

So if trends since 2010 continue Austin metro out grows San Antonio metro by 8,836 people a year and needs to make up 373,204 which will take 42 years. We all know trends change.
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Old 10-12-2017, 01:56 PM
 
Location: South Padre Island, TX
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Perhaps, but it's best that most of the growth happen at the coastal cities, from Houston/Galveston, down to Corpus, and the South Padre resort. The coast is the lushest, most equable and hydrated portion of the state, and thus won't have issues with water problems, agriculture, extreme weather, etc that plagues the more arid interior.
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Old 10-12-2017, 03:21 PM
 
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Perhaps, but it's best that most of the growth happen at the coastal cities, from Houston/Galveston, down to Corpus, and the South Padre resort. The coast is the lushest, most equable and hydrated portion of the state, and thus won't have issues with water problems, agriculture, extreme weather, etc that plagues the more arid interior.
Huh?

Dallas 37.57 inches of rain

Austin 34.32 inches of rain

San Antonio 32.27 inches of rain


Corpus Christi 31.73 inches of rain

South Padre Island 29.00 inches of rain

Brownsville 27.44 inches of rain
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Old 10-12-2017, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I'd rather Texas invest a lot more into desalination like Israel has. Even if we pretend like Climate Change isn't a thing, there isn't enough freshwater to comfortably sustain such high growth in the state.
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